New Location, Same Quality

New Frisco location doubles the care offered by top-performing children’s hospital

Established in 1921, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children is a world-renowned leader in pediatric orthopedics, offering leading-edge treatments and services that treat the whole child — mind, body, and spirit.

The team of specialists is dedicated to providing the most comprehensive care to treat a wide range of orthopedic conditions, including hip disorders, clubfoot and other pediatric foot conditions, hand differences, fractures, sports injuries, limb length discrepancies, and scoliosis.

To best serve its patients, Scottish Rite Hospital recently opened a second location, Scottish Rite for Children Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center in Frisco, in addition to the original Dallas facility. In both locations, specialists provide accessible, top-quality care for all families, regardless of their ability to pay.

Read on to find out more about the hospital's treatment services and financial assistance programs, as well as details about the new Frisco location.

New location
After 96 years in its original Dallas location, Scottish Rite Hospital recently opened a new facility in Frisco. Located at the corner of Lebanon Road and the Dallas North Tollway, the new campus specializes in pediatric orthopedics, fracture care, and sports medicine.

The five-story, 345,000-square-foot facility is located on a 40-acre campus and features a physical therapy gym and a state-of-the-art Movement Science Lab for sport-specific training and testing. There's also an adjacent U-11 soccer field (used for group therapy sessions and coaching clinics), a half-mile walking and running trail, and a playground with adaptive play equipment.

No condition too big or too small
As a leading pediatric orthopedic center, Scottish Rite Hospital has treated more than 300,000 children since its inception nearly a century ago. The orthopedic specialists are as skilled at treating common fractures and sprains as they are at identifying and mending some of the world’s most complex pediatric conditions. They understand that children and teenagers aren't just small adults — their growing bones require extremely careful attention to avoid potential complications.

Both the Frisco and Dallas locations offer care and treatment for scoliosis, hand disorders, clubfoot and foot disorders, rheumatology, and other orthopedic conditions. In addition, the new Frisco location houses the Fracture Clinic, which specializes in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of fractures, as well as the Sports Medicine Center, which focuses on treating concussions, stress fractures, and knee, hip, shoulder, and elbow injuries in young and growing athletes.

World-renowned experts
At Scottish Rite Hospital, the staff — world-renowned surgeons, physicians, and researchers — are all experts in healing muscles, joints, and bones. The specialists in their six Centers for Excellence work as a close-knit team to provide prompt, effective treatments and solutions for children and their families. In addition to providing the utmost in quality patient care, they're known for treating a wide range of pediatric orthopedic conditions, pioneering leading-edge technologies, discovering genetic breakthroughs, and solving some of the most complex orthopedic cases in the world.

Accessible care
Scottish Rite Hospital is dedicated to the health and happiness of all children, regardless of their financial background or ability to pay for treatment. The hospital partners with a number of private and public health insurance plans, including BlueCross BlueShield, United Healthcare, Cigna, and Aetna. However, Scottish Rite Hospital also relies on the generosity of individuals, organizations, and foundations to carry out its mission. Crayon Care, the hospital's financial assistance program, provides care to families who qualify. To find out more about Crayon Care and to access the program's application form, visit the hospital's website. If you're curious about whether Scottish Rite Hospital participates in your insurance plan, contact their family services counselors at 214-559-8630.

Want to learn more about Scottish Rite Hospital, plan a visit, or request an appointment? Check out the website for a closer look at its award-winning treatment and services. Patients have the option to self-refer when requesting an appointment and do not have to be referred by a physician.

Mikayla, age 11, gets checked out.

Photo courtesy of Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children

Mikayla, age 11, gets checked out.

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Flesh-eating screwworm fly detected in Texas for first time since 1966

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This little fly can do a lot of damage

The New World screwworm fly has reached south Texas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed June 3, the first time in decades that the parasite with flesh-eating larvae has threatened the nation's cattle industry and only the third time it's appeared in the U.S. in that time.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the case was in a 3-week-old calf in La Pryor, Texas, about 50 miles from the Mexico border. Texas State Veterinarian Bud Dinges said he has established a 12-mile quarantine zone, prohibiting the movement of any warm-blooded animal — including pets — outside that zone without an inspection.

Rollins said there have been no other detections of the fly in the U.S., and officials were quick to say that while the fly’s larvae are a threat to livestock production, they don’t infest food. Properly treated, even the infested calf should recover, Rollins said.

Rollins, U.S. and Texas agriculture officials, and cattle industry leaders have been sounding public alarms about the fly’s movement across Mexico for more than a year, spurred on by memories of it causing tens of millions of dollars of losses — potentially billions in today’s dollars — before its eradication in the 1970s.

It is the first case confirmed in Texas since 1966, Rollins said.

The months of effort to keep the fly out of the U.S. have included dropping millions of sterile screwworm flies in the area to mate with wild females — the same method used successfully before the fly was eradicated. Rollins said the USDA is confident enough in its preparations that it believes “there is no threat of mass infestation.”

“There is no reason to believe this incursion will result in establishment of the pest in our country," Rollins said.

The announcement of the suspected case comes only a day after Rollins had an online news conference to highlight the nearness of the threat, with cases being confirmed in Mexico as close as 25 miles from the border — and to outline the USDA's efforts to combat it.

The New World Screwworm fly is a tropical species that decades ago infested cattle in warm weather across the southern United States, but it was contained in Panama until late in 2024.

The female fly lays its eggs in open wounds or mucous membranes and they hatch into larvae that eat flesh — making them unlike most fly species — and can infest livestock, wild mammals, household pets and even humans. Infestations can lead to death if left untreated.

In August 2025, federal health officials confirmed a case in a Maryland resident who had traveled to El Salvador, but the victim recovered and officials found no transmission of the parasite. Before that, the last outbreak was in the Florida Keys in September 2016, mostly among wild deer, and it was contained early the next year without spreading further.

The female flies mate once in their monthslong lives, and if they do so with a sterile fly, their eggs would not hatch — and the population would die out over time. Past eradication efforts were so successful that the U.S. shut down facilities for breeding sterile flies, leaving only one in Panama for decades.

That is changing. The USDA dedicated $21 million to convert a fruit-fly breeding facility in southern Mexico into one for breeding screwworm flies, opened a new center for dispersing sterile flies bred elsewhere in southern Texas and has started construction on a $750 million screwworm fly factory there. The breeding facility in Mexico should be operating next month, Rollins said.

Officials also deployed 8,000 fly traps along the U.S.-Mexico border, and Rollins said the USDA has tested more than 58,000 fly samples, along with 19,000 wild animals.

Rollins also closed the U.S.-Mexico border last year to livestock imports from Mexico, a decision she defended during her news conference Tuesday. The fly also can travel with people and their pets and with wild animals, officials noted, but Rollins stressed Wednesday evening that it doesn't fly great distances on its own.

Dinges said ranchers and pet owners need to understand that it's important to respect the quarantine zone.

“Please help us prevent any further movement of this pest by staying put,” he said.

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New Location, Same Quality

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