SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO DRISCOLL
FOR A HOLIDAY LIGHTING CEREMONY

Thursday, December 2, 2004
5:55pm
Driscoll Children's Hospital Front Lawn
3533 S. Alameda

(Corpus Christi, TX) ‘Tis the season for holiday cheer and fun. Santa Claus & Frosty the Snowman are stopping by Driscoll Children's Hospital for a check of our Holiday decorations and they are making sure we are celebrating in style. Santa Claus is coming to Driscoll Children's Hospital, Thursday, December 2nd at 5:55pm. His arrival will “rev up” the crowd. He will help CEO Rick Merrill kick off the holidays with the Annual Christmas Lighting Ceremony. A choir and marching band will help us all bring in the joyous season with the sounds of Christmas. Patients, parents and staff will witness the on-going tradition at Driscoll. Santa will then lead patients inside the Hospital’s auditorium where the festivities continue and the Christmas cheer will follow.

The Auditorium will be set up with games, face painting, and plenty of fun. The entertainment will continue with a choir and marching band. We will have story telling from the book “Bear Stays Up for Christmas”. 80 books were donated for the patients by Cerco Management and the book can be purchased at Kohl’s Department Store. Proceeds from the book come back to Driscoll Children's Hospital.

Our Engineering Department has been busy stringing up more than 900 feet of lighted rope, constructing a three story Angel that faces the Corpus Christi Bay and a taller Christmas Tree that faces Alameda Street. The flagpoles in front of the hospital are also made into a Christmas Tree of lights.

About Driscoll Children’s Hospital
“Improve the health of adults and you give them back their health …
Improve the health of children and you give them their life.”

Since opening its doors in 1953, Driscoll Children’s Hospital has been offering hope and healing to the children of South Texas for half a century. The facility is a 189-bed pediatric tertiary care center with pediatric board-certified specialists representing 19 medical and nine surgical specialties. Each year, more than 6,000 children are admitted for inpatient care, 5,000 for day surgery, and 50,000 for outpatient primary and specialty care, as well as 40,000 for emergency care, as the first South Texas hospital with emergency services exclusively for children. Additionally, Driscoll maintains a state-of-the-art ground/air transport team, 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 40-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and specialized medical outreach.

www.driscollchildrens.org

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