Community Health Needs Assessment

The 2024 Community Health Needs Assessment was approved by the Board of Trustees on April 29, 2025.

This report is provided in fulfillment of the Internal Revenue Service Section 501(r)(3)(A) requirements for Charitable Hospitals to conduct a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). Our 2024 CHNA serves as a joint assessment for both Cook Children’s Medical Center-Fort Worth and Cook Children’s Medical Center-Prosper.

View and download the 2024 Community Health Needs Assessment Report

Public comment on this report is encouraged and should be sent via email to: CHNAFeedback@cookchildrens.org

Implementation strategies:

Our CHNA Implementation Strategy Plans are companion pieces to the 2024 Community Health Needs Assessment Report by Cook Children's. It describes the implementation strategies being undertaken by Cook Children's, as approved by the Board of Trustees on April 29, 2025, in order to address the needs identified in the assessment. Separate strategy plans have been approved for Cook Children’s Medical Center – Fort Worth and Cook Children’s Medical Center – Prosper.

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Cook Children's Health Care System

Cook Children’s is more than a health care system: we strive to be an extension of your family, growing with your child from their first steps to adulthood. By collaborating to deliver on our Promise—to improve the well-being of every child in our care and our communities, we connect the dots for our patients. Between primary and specialty. Between home and medical home. Between short-term care and long-term health.

Based in Fort Worth, Texas, we’re 10,000+ dedicated team members strong, passionately caring for over 2 million patient encounters each year. Our integrated, not-for-profit organization spans two medical centers (including our state-of-the-art location in Prosper), two surgery centers, a physician network, home health services and a health plan. It also includes Child Study Center at Cook Children's, Cook Children's Health Services Inc., and Cook Children's Health Foundation. In 2024, Forbes named Cook Children’s the top health care employer in the U.S., and third on the list of ‘America’s Best Large Employers.’

And our impact extends beyond the borders of Texas. We proudly treat children from virtually every state in the nation and 32 countries. By seeing the world through the eyes of children and their families from all backgrounds, we’re able to shape health care suited to them: connected by kindness, imagination and respect—with an extra dose of magical wonder.