DRISCOLL’S ARTISTS AUTOGRAPHING SESSION FOR
DRISCOLL’S 2004 CALENDAR AND CHRISTMAS CARDS

Driscoll Children's Hospital 2004 Calendar and Christmas Cards Kids Autograph Session Friday, November 7, 2003 o 10 a.m. Driscoll Children's Hospital Main Lobby Driscoll Children's Hospital 2004 Calendar and Christmas Cards ON SALE NOW! $10 per Christmas Cards Packet o $10 per Calendar Proceeds benefit Driscoll Children's Hospital's patient programs Available at the hospital Gift Shop and Online at www.driscollchildrens.org Call (361) 694-5013 for more information

(Corpus Christi, TX) Color my world!… the 2004 Driscoll’s Calendar and Christmas cards artwork artists kids are here! They will be on-hand to autograph their artwork on Friday, November 7, 2003 at 10 a.m. in the facility’s lobby. With a theme of "When I Grow Up," these annually produced artwork items catch a glimpse of 20 extraordinary, young patients who can now realize their future dreams because of the special care they received from Driscoll physicians, nurses, and staff. A perfect gift for the holidays, the 2004 Calendar and Christmas Cards are on sale now. Calendar proceeds will benefit various hospital patient programs and 100% of the proceeds of the Christmas Cards will be awarded to oncology patients in the form of college scholarships.

Young patients from the areas of oncology, cardiology, orthopedics, pulmonology, nephrology, neonatology, neurology, radiology, urology, and occupational therapy are featured alongside original beautiful full-color images. Each child colored and expressed artistically on paper through different mediums what each month represented and what the holidays meant to them as the theme of their artwork. In addition, some of their stories are also featured on the Driscoll’s 2004 Calendar.

The Driscoll Children's Hospital 2004 Calendar and the Christmas Cards packets are $10 each, and are available at the at the hospital's Gift Shop and online at www.driscollchildrens.org. Raymond Gray was the project's photographer.

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.”

Happy 50th birthday! Since opening its doors in 1953, Driscoll Children’s Hospital has been offering hope and healing the children of South Texas for half a century. The facility is a 200-bed pediatric tertiary care center with pediatric board-certified specialists representing 19 medical and nine surgical specialties. The facility’s referral area spans 31,000 square miles, making it larger than the state of South Carolina, and offers care to children throughout the Coastal Bend and Rio Grande Valley. 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. The first South Texas hospital with emergency services exclusively for children, Driscoll provides emergency care to more than 40,000 children per year. 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 a renowned pediatric intensive care program.

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