Dell Children's Foundation

In 2018, after struggling with infertility for nearly a decade, Laura and Blain Martin celebrated the birth of their son Henry following a complicated delivery and emergency c-section. After a short stay in the NICU, baby Henry was home with his family.

We’re excited to share that after four months of growing bigger and stronger at our hospital, Baby Le’Lani is now home with her loving family.

Ascension Texas is excited to announce the appointment of Michael Wiggins DBA, FACHE, as the new President of Dell Children’s, which now includes Dell Children’s Medical Center as well as Dell Children’s Medical Center North.

We are honored to share the news that Dell Children’s Medical Center, through the generosity of a $7 million transformational gift from the John L. Hern Foundation, has established the John L. Hern Foundation Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery and Endowed Chair in Pediatric Organ Transplantation.

Middle school athlete Sabine Barrett was playing soccer on Jan. 19, when she suddenly collapsed on the soccer field. Her father was with her at the time and called LoneStar Soccer Club coach Nick Snyder for help. Coach Snyder lept into action and administered CPR while her father called 911.

Baby Le’Lani was diagnosed with a rare congenital heart defect while in utero. Upon entering this world, she would need life-saving surgery to ensure the arteries around her heart were pumping blood properly.

At Dell Children’s Medical Center gene therapy is saving babies’ lives. The ground-breaking treatment means children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy or SMA will live past the age of two. For one Austin family the gene therapy is the science of miracles.

A beloved annual tradition, Austin police Department (APD) officers dressed up as superheroes and visited the kids at Dell Children’s.

Setting the pace for the community to welcome Dell Children’s into Williamson County, the Maxwell Family has made a $1,000,000 gift in support of Dell Children’s North, which will be honored with the naming of the chapel space within the hospital.

Identical twin boys, Yadier and Yasiel, are thriving after they were delivered last month at the new Dell Children’s Specialized Delivery Unit. In December they had undergone complex laser surgery while in the womb – a first of its kind at Dell Children’s

To celebrate Heart Month and all of the families The Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease at Dell Children’s is honored to care for, we would like to introduce you to a very special family with a powerfully funny, kind, energetic, fedora loving boy we are smitten with.

Kendra Scott is making the gift to the Dell Children’s Foundation HERE Campaign, an effort dedicated to providing world-class medical care to pediatric patients at Dell Children’s. The generous gift from Kendra Scott, LLC is being matched by Kendra Scott personally for a total of $1M in support.

I never would have thought I’d be diagnosed with a fatal illness at just 17 years old. It was like I’d won the lottery. Backwards.