REUNION DAY OFFERS HOPE & MEMORIES:

FORMER N.I.C.U. PATIENTS RANGING IN AGE FROM BABIES
TO ADULTS GATHER TO REMINISCE WITH DOCTORS & NURSES

2007 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (N.I.C.U.) Reunion
Free and open to former Driscoll Children’s Hospital N.I.C.U.
patients and their families
Saturday, October 27, 2007 l 2 – 4 p.m.
Driscoll Children’s Hospital
Rehabilitation Parking Lot

(Corpus Christi, TX) Every Fall, former Driscoll Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit patients, otherwise known as “N.I.C.U. graduates,” converge on hospital grounds to meet up with their doctors, nurses, and hospital staff and celebrate life! The day is devoted to all the children and families who were given a “fighting chance” with the help of Driscoll’s N.I.C.U. staff and to reflect on how important their work is.

During the Halloween-themed party, doctors, nurses, and staff who cared for Driscoll patients over the years will be on-hand to converse and share stories of what these wonderful patients have been doing since their stay at Driscoll … some possibly many years ago. Most important to the kids though - it’s a day for having fun! In addition to donning costumes, festivities will include a moon jump, petting zoo, face painting, games, as well as cupcakes and snow cones!

During the past 54 years, Driscoll’s N.I.C.U. has cared for more than 20,000 premature and critically ill babies, offering state-of-the-art services and programs not available any where else in South Texas. Today, the Level III unit has successfully cared for premature infants (carried less than 37 weeks) as young as 23 weeks gestation, and weighing as little as 400grams. The unit also cares for newborns for a variety of other reasons including respiratory distress, infections, birth defects, and other illnesses. Licensed for 51 beds, Driscoll’s N.I.C.U. is the only hospital in South Texas staffed by neonatologists in the hospital 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, not on-call. Additionally, support staff of nurses, dietitians, surgeons, anesthesiologists are all specially trained to care exclusively for the tiniest of babies are all a part of the N.I.C.U. team.

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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