A Driscoll Overview
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Driscoll Children's Hospital is a tertiary care regional referral center offering the most complex and comprehensive medical and surgical care for children. The hospital's medical staff is comprised of pediatric board-certified specialists in more than 30 medical and 10 surgical specialties. Working with the Medical Staff is over 1,500 employees including more than 450 nurses.
Every year more than 6,500 children are admitted for inpatient care, 6,000 patients for day surgery, and 65,000 children for outpatient primary and specialty care. Driscoll was the first hospital in South Texas to provide emergency services exclusively for children and today we provide emergency care to more than 40,000 children a year. Driscoll was also the first hospital in south Texas to perform an organ transplant.
All of Driscoll's patient care units offer state-of-the-art services and the latest technology for the treatment of newborns, infants, and children with life threatening illnesses and injuries.
OPENED IN 1953
DCH TODAY
Other Facts About Driscoll Children's Hospital:
- Serving 33 counties and 31,000 square miles of South Texas
- 250 Doctors on Medical Staff in over 30 specialties
- Over 1,700 employees and 450 volunteers
- 6th Largest Employer in Corpus Christi
- 20-Bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- 42-Bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- 8 Surgical Suites
Complete Air and Ground Transport Services Located in Corpus Christi, TX and Weslaco, TX (Rio Grande Valley)
- 40,000 annual Emergency Room visits
- Comprehensive Surgical Services Including General Surgery, Cardiovascular, Orthopaedic and Neuro Surgery with 6,000 Surgical Procedures Performed Annually
- Pediatric Subspecialty Centers Located in Harlingen, Laredo, McAllen, Brownsville and Victoria
- Pediatric Cardiology Clinics
- Child Abuse Resource and Evaluation Team
- Over 40 Pediatric Residents
- One of 200 pediatric residency programs in the United States
- Texas A&M University Affiliation
- Accredited with the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
- 6,500 children admitted into hospital
- 6,000 surgeries
- 110,000 children treated annually
- 1,300 transports by ambulance, airplane, and helicopter
Driscoll Children’s Specialty Center
- McAllen,
Texas
Driscoll Children’s Specialty Center
- Brownsville,
Texas
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