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MEDIA ADVISORY
Driscoll Children’s Hospital Participates in
City Wide Hurricane Disaster Drill
| Who: | Driscoll Children’s Hospital |
| What: | Hurricane “Zelda” CAT5 06:1900 Hurricane Zelda has made landfall and the eye proceeds on a NE course over Victoria, Texas. Devastation is a 30 mile radius extending East to Refugio, West to Port Lavaca. Corpus Christi, Texas has heavy rain with some area flooding but infrastructure is still in place. In anticipation of Zelda the City of Corpus Christi has been evacuated along with Refugio, Victoria and all low lying areas.The EOC’s of the evacuated areas have deployed their incident command centers, EOC Radio Room personnel are in place and monitoring all HF, VHF and UHF frequencies. All 800Mhz, 900Mhz and local utilities in the strike zone are no longer in service. |
| When: | Saturday, October 27, 2007-USCG will rescue and transport pediatric patients to DCH; estimated Landing time 9 a.m. |
| Where: |
Driscoll Children’s Hospital |
About Driscoll Children’s
Hospital
“Improve the health of adults and you give them back their health
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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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