PORTLAND VOLUNTEER

RECEIVES HOSPITAL SCHOLARSHIP

(Corpus Christi, TX)  Driscoll Children's Hospital is pleased to announce Ashleigh Jacobes as the recipient of the Auxiliary to Driscoll Children's Hospital’s Clara Driscoll Spirit Scholarship.  The announcement was made by Vivian Daniel, Driscoll Children’s Hospital’s Auxiliary President.  The scholarship is awarded annually to a Driscoll teenage volunteer (volunteen) and college bound high school senior.

A volunteen at Driscoll since November 2000, Ashleigh donated over 580 hours, and has been recognized with several awards and appointments during her excellent service to the hospital.  She received the Auxiliary Service Star and was the first teen volunteer in the history of Driscoll Children's Hospital to be named Auxilian of the Year.  In addition, Ashleigh was an instrumental member of the “Disabilities Awareness Mission” program, which educates elementary-school students about challenges and misconceptions faced by people with disabilities and founder of the hospital’s Aluminum-Recycling program benefiting the Ronald McDonald House.  Ashleigh also participated in a variety of extracurricular activities while maintaining an excellent academic standard.

A graduate of Gregory Portland High School in Portland, Ashleigh plans on attending the University of Texas in Austin majoring in communications. The Clara Driscoll Spirit Scholarship was established by the Driscoll Children's Hospital Auxiliary. The annual $500 scholarship is awarded to qualifying seniors who provide volunteer service to the hospital. No particular field of study is required to receive this award which will help pay for tuition, books, and mandatory education expenses.  Winners of the scholarship are based on the content of two essays, academic record, attitude, initiative, and their record of volunteer service at Driscoll Children's Hospital.

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.”

Happy 50^th birthday!  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 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.

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