MEDIA ADVISORY

Driscoll Children’s Hospital Pathology Department Gifted with New Microscope

(Corpus Christi, TX) DCH Pathology Department to recognize the Coastal Bend Kidney Foundation and the DCH Kidney Transplant Program for their generous gift of an Olympus BX51 Multihead Microscope. This new state-of-the-art microscope enables two people to view a slide simultaneously allowing for collaboration or teaching.

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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