Housed on the second floor of UMC, the Children's Hospital treats patients using the most advanced technology available today. The Children's Hospital provides both general and specialized services for children including developmental assessment, genetic diagnosis and counseling and family education classes. The Children's Hospital at UMC is also the only hospital in the region to provide an ECMO unit for babies and children with acute lung and heart disorders. The Southwest Cancer Center is home to the region's only Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit. A partnership program with the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, the Southwest Cancer Center provides both inpatient and outpatient therapies to patients of West Texas and Eastern New Mexico.
Treatment ranges from surgical intervention to radiation therapy and chemotherapy.
Patients are treated with individual therapies or a combination of treatment programs by certified radiation specialists, surgeons and oncologists. The Cancer Center was the first to initiate clinical trial research in the West Texas region. The clinical research team has been active in cancer research through the Southwest Oncology Group, the largest cooperative for cancer research in the country. Through such programs the Southwest Cancer Center is able to provide use of drugs and other treatments not commercially available elsewhere. I trauma designation.