FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 3, 2007
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MEDIA - FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Sherie Cantrell
Media & Public Relations Coordinator Phone (361) 694-5662
Cell (361) 548-6073
www.driscollchildrens.org
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HO! HO! HO!
SANTA ARRIVES IN STYLE - IN FIRE TRUCK -
TO VISIT PATIENTS DURING ANNUAL LIGHTING CEREMONY
Annual Driscoll Children’s Hospital
Holiday Lighting Ceremony & Santa Visit
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Driscoll Children’s Hospital (outside and inside)
FREE and open to the public
(Corpus Christi, TX) Ho! Ho! Ho! The holidays
have officially made it to Corpus Christi as Santa Claus arrives at Driscoll
Children’s Hospital in a bucket truck high atop a shiny
red fire truck with sirens blaring and lights flashing. He officially
rings in this festive season at the hospital during the Annual
Holiday Lighting Ceremony on Tuesday, December 2nd, from 5:30 p.m. until
7:30 p.m. in and outside the hospital. The event is free and
open to the public.
Accompanied by the W.B. Ray High School Holiday Band and TAMCC Cheerleaders
and Dance Team, Santa will aid C.E.O. and President Steve Woerner in “throwing
the switch” on the bright, colorful lights on the Driscoll’s
eight-story patient tower.
The festivities will move inside Driscoll’s auditorium where children
of all ages can sit on Santa’s lap and take a picture, listen to
a special reading of Christmas stories, sing carols, make ornaments, decorate
cookies, and enjoy refreshments. Following the festivities, Santa will
then visit the patient floors to see patients who are unable to visit
the auditorium.

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.
www.driscollchildrens.org
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