PRESS RELEASE: GAME TABLE TILED WITH CANCER CHILDREN’S ARTWORK DONATED TO DRISCOLL’S ONCOLOGY CLINIC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
April 19, 2006

MEDIA - FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Deborah Perry Phone (361) 442-4538
www.driscollchildrens.org

GAME TABLE TILED WITH CANCER CHILDREN’S ARTWORK DONATED TO DRISCOLL’S ONCOLOGY CLINIC

Tiled Game Table Gift Donation
(gift purchased by Allen Samuels Chevrolet at the 20th Annual Cattle Barons)
Thursday, April 20 ? 10:30 a.m.
Driscoll Children’s Hospital
Oncology & Hematology Clinic – 1st floor

(Corpus Christi, TX)) Children with cancer and other blood disorders will have something new to play with while receiving chemotherapy or waiting for their doctor’s appointments at Driscoll Children’s Hospital’s Oncology and Hematology Clinic. Mr. Billy Martin, general manager of Allen Samuels Chevrolet, will donate a unique tiled game table on Thursday, April 20 at 10:30 a.m. in the clinic. The hospital’s oncology physicians, clinic staff, and young patients will be on-hand to receive the table.

Artwork created by pediatric oncology patients has been converted into ceramic tiles that surround a checker board on a card table-sized game table. Allen Samuels Chevrolet purchased the table for $12,500 at the 20th Annual Cattle Barons fundraiser during its live auction. Funds raised from the event benefited the American Cancer Society as well its local programs and services.

“Many young lives will be touched again and again,” says Brenda Tollett, Chair of the 2006 Cattle Barons said of the generous donation.

The beautiful tile table was crafted by Cornelia and Ed Gates of Aloe Tile in Corpus Christi and the metal based was create by Christopher Ortiz of Coastal Propeller.

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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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