Driscoll Children's Hospital

This article is about Driscoll Children's Hospital. For other similarly named hospitals, see Children's Hospital (disambiguation).

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Driscoll Children's Hospital
Geography
Location	Corpus Christi, Texas, Corpus Christi and surrounding South Texas, Texas, United States
Organization
Type	Children's general
Services
Beds	225[1]
History
Opened	1953
Links
Website	http://www.driscollchildrens.org/
Lists	Hospitals in Texas

Driscoll Children's Hospital is a children's hospital located in Corpus Christi, Texas and was founded as a charity children's hospital in 1953 by the last will and testament of Clara Driscoll with the assistance of her primary physician Dr. McIver Furman.^[2] In 1970, Driscoll Children's Hospital had its status changed from charity only to not-for-profit. Driscoll Children's Hospital is the 7th largest employer in Corpus Christi. Driscoll was the first hospital in South Texas to provide pediatric emergency services and to perform an organ transplant.^[3] It is accredited by the Joint Commission (JC).^[4] Driscoll Children's Hospital operates as the only asthma camp in South Texas, Camp Easy Breathers.