CALLING ALL NICU GRADUATES!!!
THIS IS YOUR INVITATION TO DRISCOLL’S 2003 NICU REUNION

21ST Annual Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Reunion
Saturday, October 18, 2003. Starts from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Driscoll Children’s Hospital Front Lawn at 3533 S. Alameda St.
Free and open to former babies of Driscoll NICU and their families
Children are encouraged to wear their Halloween Costumes!
For more information call 694-5000

(Corpus Christi, TX) Call out for all Driscoll NICU Graduates!!! This upcoming event is a wonderful opportunity for former patients of the NICU to meet on hospital grounds for a fun party and visit with the doctors, nurses, and hospital staff who cared for them and their children during their stay at the hospital. It is Free and open to former Driscoll NICU babies and their families. Driscoll’s 2003 NICU Reunion will take place on Saturday, October 18, 2003 from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. in Driscoll Children’s Hospital’s own front lawn at 3533 S. Alameda in Corpus Christi.

Doctors, nurses, and staff who cared for Driscoll patients will be on-hand to converse and share stories of what these wonderful patients have been doing since their stay at Driscoll, possibly many years ago. In addition, food, fun, and games will also entertain reunion-goers.

More than 20,000 babies have been cared for in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Driscoll Children's Hospital, since opening doors in 1953. Today, Driscoll’s comprehensive team of pediatric professionals such as neonatologists, pediatric nurses, pediatric respiratory therapists, and pediatric dietitians continue to provide this legacy of caring and compassion. In addition, Driscoll now has Neonatologists in the hospital 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide the highest quality care for these young, fragile, and very special patients.

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.”

As one of only 38 free standing children’s hospitals in the United States, Driscoll Children’s Hospital is a 200-bed pediatric tertiary care center with pediatric board-certified specialists representing 19 medical and nine surgical specialties. The hospital’s referral area spans 31,000 square miles, making it larger than the state of South Carolina, and offers care to children throughout all of South Texas including 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 and 40-bed neonatal intensive care unit, renowned pediatric intensive care program, specialized medical outreach to the children of South Texas.

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