PRESS RELEASE: HOOKS Team up with Driscoll Children’s For a Visit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
June 2, 2005

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HOOKS Team up with Driscoll Children’s For a Visit

Where:	Driscoll Children’s Hospital
When:	Friday, June 3, 2005 11 a.m.
What:	For the 1st time this season several baseball players from the Hooks Organization and a special guest will tour Driscoll Children’s Hospital and visit with the patients and the staff.
Who:	Corpus Christi Hooks baseball players Sammy-Hooks Mascot
Why:	The Hooks Organization and Driscoll Children’s Hospital are teaming up together for a special visit with the patients and staff. This visit will give the Hooks players a chance to see the children’s hospital which brings them a player for a day every month. Many of the players have heard of the hospital through the patients and this visit will help them understand who Driscoll Children’s takes care of and at the same time put a smile on a child’s face.

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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.

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