ON SALE NOW! Christmas Cards and 2004 Calendar featuring
kids from Driscoll Children's Hospital (Corpus Christi, TX) Joy to the world!… the Christmas Cards and 2004 Driscoll’s Calendar featuring artwork and artists kids, former patients, are here! With a theme of "When I Grow Up," these annually produced artwork items catch a glimpse of 20 extraordinary young patients, featuring a few from the Rio Grande Valley area, 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 Driscoll Children's Specialty Clinic in McAllen located on 1120 E. Ridge Road and online at www.driscollchildrens.org. About Driscoll Children’s
Hospital 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. # # # |
