No. 16 / Large
Cook Children's Health Care System
9-TIME WINNER
Founded
Nonprofit formed in 1918
Business
Hospital and health care system
Locations
1 D-FW location
Employees
6,500 D-FW workers
801 Seventh Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76104
Headquarters: Fort Worth
Above: Kara Lanning, a case manager/service coordinator at Cook Children's Medical Center, encourages a camper while serving as a volunteer counselor during Camp Broncho, a camp for Cook Children's asthma patients, at Camp John Marc in Meridian. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)
Employees say
“My leaders are strong, our industry makes you feel proud, our company is amazing, and I drive to work like I'm going to Disneyland every morning.”
“There is a real culture of teamwork here, no sense of hierarchy or superiority.”
“I trust Cook Children's and those who make our policies, and it gives me peace of mind to know I work for an organization that genuinely cares about the patients and their outcomes.”
Good works
Cook Children’s annual employee giving program set records for the number of employees who participated (3,618) and the most money raised ($848,228).
Fun facts
The hospital celebrated Doctors’ Day on March 30 by holding an event called Slime-A-Doc. More than 4,100 votes from the community and employees determined a physician, nurse and child member to be “slimed.”
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