TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS CELEBRATE NEW LIVES
AT FIRST ANNUAL TRANSPLANT REUNION PARTY

After a successful first year, Driscoll Children’s Hospital Kidney Center invites all
kidney transplant recipients back to celebrate organ donation month and catch up with their healthcare team at a Corpus Christi Hooks game

(Corpus Christi, TX) Since performing the first kidney transplant in South Texas one year ago, Driscoll Children’s Hospital has performed 17 transplants. Driscoll Children’s Hospital’s Kidney Center will host the first annual Transplant Reunion on Saturday, April 5, 2008, at Whataburger Field at 5:30 p.m. for those patients who have undergone a kidney transplant at Driscoll. In addition, April is Donate Life Month, and Southwest Transplant Alliance will be on hand distributing information and signing people up to become organ donors.

There is a critical shortage of organs, tissues and eyes available for donation. Over 96,000 patients in the United States await transplantation, and more than 7,000 of them are Texans. Luckily for 2 brothers, their time on the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) waitlist wasn’t too long. Joshua Munoz, 14, waited only 2 months before receiving his new kidney, and Arturo Munoz III, 17, received his kidney from his father, Arturo Munoz, Jr. The Munoz family will be in attendance to share their experience.

The Transplant Reunion will be held at Kieschnick’s Corner and the Kid Zone where patients will have the opportunity to run around and be a kid. “Our patients got to know each other pretty well while in dialysis for three to four hours. This reunion will allow them to see each other again, but this time healthy and strong,” says Annette Rangel, transplant coordinator for Driscoll Children’s Hospital. The patients will participate in Baseball Buddies before the game, as well as in some in-game promotions.

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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