Texas Children's Urgent Care

What Texas Children's Urgent Care does

Texas Children's Urgent Care is a pediatric urgent care service line operating as a division of Texas Children's Hospital, a nonprofit pediatric academic medical center headquartered in Houston, Texas. Founded in 2014, it runs a network of 13 walk-in clinics distributed across the Houston and Austin metropolitan areas—including catchment-dense suburbs such as Katy, Sugar Land, Pearland, The Woodlands, Cypress, Kingwood, and Cinco Ranch. The clinics treat pediatric patients from infants through adolescents for minor injuries and illnesses including flu, cold, cough, fever, infections, sprains, strains, lacerations, burns, and allergic reactions. The target customer segment is parents and families seeking after-hours pediatric care staffed by pediatric-trained providers without resorting to emergency room visits.

The service is built on the MyChart electronic health record and patient portal platform, which provides online appointment scheduling, medical record access, and telehealth integration. Core digital products include the Save My Spot online time-slot reservation system, Virtual Urgent Care Visits (telehealth consultations with prescription issuance), Sports Injury Virtual Visits (specialized remote consults for sprains, head injuries, arm injuries, running injuries, and knee pain), and the Texas Children's Pediatrics Symptom Checker, an online triage tool for parents. Distribution combines physical walk-in clinics, online self-serve scheduling, virtual visits, and referrals from the Texas Children's Pediatrics primary care network.

Revenue is generated through fee-for-service patient visits—both in-person and virtual—covered by insurance and self-pay arrangements. The go-to-market is direct-to-consumer, relying on geographic convenience, the Texas Children's Hospital institutional brand, physician referrals from the broader system, and digital channels (MyChart, the institutional website, and content marketing). Standalone revenue is not disclosed; the parent Texas Children's Hospital reported $3.1B in operating revenue for FY2023, while Texas Children's Health Plan reported $1.2B for 2023. Pricing is not publicly posted and is handled through a cost-estimate tool.

Name

Texas Children's Urgent Care

Legal name

Texas Children's Hospital

Website

https://texaschildrensurgentcare.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Texas Children's Urgent Care operates 13 pediatric urgent care clinics across Houston and Austin, Texas, supplemented by virtual visits. It is a nonprofit division of Texas Children's Hospital serving families needing after-hours care for minor childhood illnesses and injuries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pediatric Urgent Care Services

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Pediatric Urgent Care & After-Hours Clinics (HLAFAJAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Virtual Urgent Care & On-Demand Teletriage Services (HLAFADAJ), Pediatric Urgent Care Telehealth Platforms (HLALAJAE), Hospital-Operated Urgent Care Centers (HLAFADAC)

Keywords

• Pediatric urgent care
• Walk-in clinic services
• Virtual pediatric visits
• Children's healthcare services
• Same-day pediatric care

Headquarters

HQ city

Houston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices13 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Urgent Care Services Revenue: Fee-for-service healthcare revenue from treating pediatric patients at urgent care facilities. Services covered by insurance plans and self-pay patients. Revenue generated through patient visits, virtual consultations, and associated medical services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Texas Children's Urgent Care operates a network of 13 pediatric-specialized urgent care clinics across the Houston and Austin metro areas in Texas, providing walk-in and scheduled care for minor injuries and illnesses in children. The service is supplemented by a telehealth platform offering virtual urgent care consultations and sports injury virtual visits, all supported by the MyChart electronic health record and patient portal.

Product overview

Texas Children's Urgent Care is a network of pediatric-specialized urgent care clinics offering in-person and virtual healthcare services. The core offering consists of 13 urgent care clinic locations across the Austin and Houston, TX areas, supplemented by a telehealth platform (Virtual Urgent Care Visits) enabling remote consultations. Additional service features include a Sports Injury Virtual Visit program, a self-service Symptom Checker tool, and a Save My Spot appointment scheduling system. The portfolio is unified under the Texas Children's Hospital brand, with all locations staffed by pediatric-trained providers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Texas Children's Urgent Care Clinics Pediatric-specialized walk-in urgent care clinics providing in-person care for minor injuries and illnesses in children, including treatment for flu, COVID-19, asthma, sprains, lacerations, and infections. 13 locations across Austin and Houston metro areas staffed by pediatric-trained providers.
• Virtual Urgent Care Visits
• Save My Spot
• Texas Children's Pediatrics Symptom Checker

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• PM Pediatrics: PM Pediatrics is a nationwide pediatric urgent care chain that operates walk-in clinics staffed by pediatric-trained providers. It is the closest direct competitor by specialty, patient population, and care setting to Texas Children's Urgent Care.
• Little Spurs Pediatric Urgent Care: Little Spurs is a Texas-based pediatric urgent care operator with multiple San Antonio–area locations. It is directly comparable as a same-state, same-specialty pediatric urgent care network competing for the same patient demographic.
• NightLight Pediatric Urgent Care: NightLight is a pediatric-focused after-hours urgent care provider in the Houston market. It directly overlaps with Texas Children's Urgent Care on geography, pediatric specialty, and after-hours service model.
• After Hours Pediatrics: After Hours Pediatrics is a regional pediatric urgent care network providing evening and weekend care. It is comparable in service mix (pediatric urgent care, after-hours visits) and target customer (families needing non-emergency pediatric care).

Emerging players

• DispatchHealth: DispatchHealth delivers on-demand, in-home acute and urgent care visits. It is comparable as an emerging alternative channel for low-acuity pediatric and adult urgent care, potentially disintermediating traditional clinic visits.

Broad incumbents

• Nemours Children's Health: Nemours operates a network of pediatric specialty and primary care facilities including pediatric urgent care in multiple states. It is comparable as a multi-state pediatric hospital system with integrated urgent and specialty pediatric services.
• Boston Children's Hospital (Boston Children's Health): Boston Children's Hospital is a leading pediatric academic medical center with affiliated outpatient and urgent care services. It is comparable as a top-tier pediatric hospital brand with associated ambulatory pediatric services.
• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta is a large nonprofit pediatric health system that includes urgent care and specialty pediatric services. It is comparable as a broader pediatric system of which Texas Children's Urgent Care is a service line mirror.
• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center: Cincinnati Children's is a major nonprofit pediatric hospital system offering urgent, specialty, and primary pediatric care. It is comparable as a similarly structured national pediatric nonprofit system with urgent care extensions.

Regional players

• Memorial Hermann Urgent Care: Memorial Hermann operates urgent care centers across the Houston metro staffed by general practitioners. It is comparable as a competing urgent care network in the same Houston geography though without pediatric specialization.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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