Nexus Children's Hospital - Houston — Local services in Houston

My 7yr old daughter was a patient at Nexus Childrens Hospital from January 2020 to November 2020. We traveled from out of state to this facility for their specialized treatment and coma rehabilitation team for her accident related Traumatic Brain Injury and Diffuse Axonal injury acquired in Nov 2019. I was able to stay in the facility with my daughter 24/7 and establish a good relationship with the staff, doctors and nurses. They did an amazing job of making sure we were as comfortable as possible being here long term. Everyone here is so kind and respectful. Any questions or concerns I had were always dealt with the utmost professionalism. All of my daughter's therapists were just amazing. They all had experience with many TBI patients. She loved her Physical Therapists Miss Brenda and Miss Meena who were just absolutely great. My girl went from barely being able to move to pushing Brenda on a rolling chair down the hall while in her gait trainer. She had Miss Pat for the majority of her Occupational Therapy and gained so much more motor control while working with her. When we started she couldn't even move one arm away from her chest. Now she is picking things up with both hands on her own! Speech was a challenge for my daughter after her accident and was completely nonverbal when we arrived. Its still something she is working on but thanks to many months working with Miss Taryn she vocalizes a lot more and says Ma! Because of her TBI she also had trouble swallowing and eating. Taryn worked very hard to help Jordana reach those goals of being able to eat normal food and not have to rely completely on tube feeding. Dr. Toomey was so great at explaining things to me that I didn't understand about comas and TBI. Any questions or concerns I had were always met with thorough explanation so that I could understand how things typically work and what to expect. We absolutely loved all of the nurses and CNAs here. Even those that never had my daughter as their patient, like Miss Paula, were very caring with her. She absolutely adored Miss Shay and Mr. Rod, who were always timely, attentive to details and just super sweet people all the way around. She always enjoyed the activities set up for the kids by Mr. Jeremiah the "fun director" who always treated all the kids as if they were just normal kids without barriers. These interactions with Jeremiah and the other kids was always the highlight of her day. I could write all day about every single person we met here and how great they are. There are so many that went above and beyond for my girl and I, and treated us like family. And it wasn't just my daughter. I saw how they cared about every single kid there. I highly recommend this facility for those that are in the position of needing coma rehabilitation and therapies for TBI...

Nexus Children's Hospital in Houston was a literal life saver for our beloved daughter & family. Our teenage daughter has complex medical/behavioral needs via a birth injury/brain injury (medical negligence). Prior to being admitted, we experienced an unfathomable 2 years of local hospitalizations where a hellish pattern of being sent home after a few days of med tweaking/supposed stabilization never quite helped our child. In fact, she became sicker and more unstable as evidenced by her increasing self-injurious and aggressive behaviors. She and we were battered and beaten while attempting to navigate and coordinate with her multiple specialists who could not be in the same room or seemingly on the same page through no venue appropriate for our family's needs. We have nothing like Nexus & their amazing team of doctors, nurses and staff near our home state nor did any facility closer to our state have room or were willing to give her/us a chance. It's true that Nexus will take the most difficult cases when most won't. We were one of those cases. It was hard work, a lot of traveling and ups and downs for our 10-month stay. They didn't give up, and they believed in her and us. Because of their hospital-level status, ability to have almost every specialist rounding weekly, and their vast experience dealing with complex children, they were able to closely monitor everything they needed to keep our child medically safe, as healthy as possible and work on her medications, therapies and behavioral modifications concurrently. While humanity isn't perfect, Nexus has zero tolerance for staff who aren't there for the right reasons and honor employees who are. I can't tell you how at peace that helped me feel when I couldn't be physically present. They go above and beyond to provide a kind and compassionate and communicative environment for children (and their families) to heal and rehabilitate. They listen and communicate and work hard for their patients. I write this having just taken our daughter to our local zoo with no behavioral or medical incident... Something we thought we would never be able to do again until Nexus. The gratitude we have for the phenomenal Nexus family is never-ending. Thank you, Nexus! ...

My stay here at Nexus children's hospital was amazing, the service was wonderful and I really enjoyed my stay here. Every one was so nice and kind especially the physical and ocupational therapy team Mrs. Pat ,Brenda, Sheen, couch David, Nathan. Sorry if I left anyone out and I thank you all for making me the stronger person that I have become.Speech therapy Mrs,Donna Jaiquis will miss your session's with you, you are an awesome person Jaiquis thinks so too.

Jaiquis three nurse practitioner's ( Sharon, Savitri, Shade) you all were awesome, not only did you guys make Jaiquis feel wonderful each and every day but you also made me feel wounderful too with help and advice.

Nurse Pat Bell you are an amazing and wonderful nurse, when ever Jaiquis and I seen you,you just made our day we will miss you dearly. Nurse Ngozi you treated Jaiquis like he was your son (you told him to take a bath now not later) and Jaiquis and I appreciate you so much.

Case manager Barbara thank you so much for helping me with the therapy appointments.

Barbara T with the front desk help. Bianca, Annde and Ashely thank you guys for helping me when ever I needed it. You guys were so helpful to me when I needed it.

Nurse supervisor Sandra, Wendy and Sara thank you guys so much for being there for Jaiquis and myself.

If missed anyone I am sorry, you all helped Jaiquis be a better person. All you guys went the extra mile and for that jaiquis is a MUCH MUCH stronger person from head to toe.

Jeremiah you are such an amazing person. You made Jaiquis holiday and birthday a blessing thank you so much.

House keeping Marita Sanchez you are very good at what you do, thank you for keeping our room clean.

Dr.Kastey and Dr. Leppo thank you for helping Jaiquis here at Nexus children's hospital AWSOME AWSOME AWSOME .

Thank you Megan for being such a friendly person here at Nexus Children's Hospital.

Last but not least the food was great it helped Jaiquis put on the...