Company Profile
Company Overview
All of Driscoll's patient care units offer high quality care for the treatment of newborns, infants, and children with life threatening illnesses and injuries.
Driscoll Children's Hospital is a tertiary care regional referral center offering complex and comprehensive medical and surgical care for children. The hospital's medical staff is comprised of pediatric specialists in more than 32 medical and 13 surgical specialties.
During 2010 Driscoll had more than 50,000 clinic visits and performed more than 6,500 surgeries. Driscoll was the first hospital in South Texas to provide emergency services exclusively for children and in 2010 we had more than 35,500 ER visits. Driscoll was also the first hospital in south Texas to perform an organ transplant.
Other Facts About Driscoll Children's Hospital:
•Serving 31 counties and 33,000 square miles of South Texas
•250 Doctors on Medical Staff in more than 30 specialties
•More than 1,800 employees and 340 volunteers
•7th Largest Employer in Corpus Christi
•18-Bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
•41-Bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
•8 Surgical Suites
•Approximately 35,500 annual Emergency Room visits
•Comprehensive Surgical Services including General Surgery, Cardiovascular, Orthopaedic and Neuro
•Pediatric Subspecialty Centers located in Harlingen, Laredo, McAllen, Brownsville and Victoria
•Pediatric Cardiology Clinics
•Child Abuse Resource and Evaluation Team
•More than 40 Pediatric Residents
•One of more than 200 pediatric residency programs in the United States
•Texas A&M University Affiliation (Affiliated with 34 colleges & universities across Texas and the United States)
•Accredited with the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
•More than 5,800 children admitted into hospital in 2010
DCH's Area Facilities
•BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS - Specialty Center
•CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS - Urgent Care Center
•HARLINGEN, TEXAS - Specialty Center
•LAREDO, TEXAS - Specialty Center
•McALLEN, TEXAS - Medical Plaza
•McALLEN, TEXAS - Quick Care
•VICTORIA, TEXAS - After-hours Clinic
•VICTORIA, TEXAS - Specialty Center
Company History
Driscoll Children's Hospital was built in 1953 and was born out of the love and compassion of our founder, Clara Driscoll, the granddaughter of a Texas patriot.
About our hospital
Driscoll Children's Hospital was built because Clara Driscoll's will requested that a fund be created to maintain a charitable hospital for indigent children.
Her will also called for the creation of the Robert Driscoll and Julia Driscoll and Robert Driscoll Jr. Foundation. The foundation was to be run by trustees who would be in charge of handling the assets and taking care of the hospital, financially.
With the help of Clara Driscoll's physician, McIver Furman, M.D., the hospital on Alameda opened in 1953 and in 1970 had its status changed from charity only to not for profit, so that it could provide care to all children in South Texas.
The Hospital has grown from a 25-bed facility to one that has a medical staff comprised of pediatric specialists in more than 32 medical and 13 surgical specialties. Working with the Medical Staff is more than 1,800 employees including more than 450 nurses. Every year approximately 6,500 children are admitted for inpatient care, more than 3,500 patients for day surgery, and 132,000 children for outpatient care. Driscoll was the first hospital in South Texas to provide emergency services exclusively for children and today we provide emergency care to approximately 40,000 children a year. Driscoll was also the first hospital in south Texas to perform an organ transplant.
About our founder, Clara Driscoll
Clara Driscoll was an author, a politician, an activist, a cattlewoman and is referred to as the Savior of the Alamo.
Born in 1881, Clara was the granddaughter of Daniel O'Driscoll, a soldier in Sam Houston's army and grew up on Palo Alto Ranch. It was only natural that she would grow up to have a love for Texas and its people. She went to school at Peeble's and Thompson's in New York and she lived in a French convent near Paris, called the Chateau Dieudonne. Before the end of the century, Clara went with her mother and brother on a round-the-world trip.
When she was in her early twenties, Clara heard that the Alamo was going to be demolished in order to build a hotel. Her fierce will and Texan pride led her to organize a fundraising campaign to save the Alamo. As the deadline for payment neared, Clara knew she would not be able to raise the money in time, so she wrote a personal check to cover the rest of they payment. She gave the Alamo back to the State, and they eventually reimbursed her, but Clara would always be known as "The Savior of the Alamo."
In 1904, Clara's book "Girl of La Gloria" was published followed by "In the Shadow of the Alamo." She also wrote a musical, "Mexicalla" that opened in the Schubert brothers' Lyric Theater. In 1928, Clara was elected to the Democratic National Committee where she served for 16 years and became a confidant of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Following her brother's death, she took over managing the land and cattle. Despite suggestions from her advisors to lease the land and sell the cattle, Clara kept the all of the cattle and the land, thus preserving the Driscoll empire. As the Corpus Christi area began to grow, Clara supported the building of the naval base, and she built the Driscoll hotel.
Clara died on July 17, 1945, leaving the family's fortune to a fund that would create Driscoll Children's Hospital. The hospital on Alameda opened in 1953 and in 1970 had its status changed from charity only to not for profit, so that it could provide care to all children in South Texas.
Clara's stubborn will, business sense and leadership skills made her powerful, but it was her compassion, spirit and generosity that made her great. Even today, her gift is an extraordinary blessing for South Texas.
About our logo
The "Y" component of the Driscoll Children's Hospital Logo is a bold, stylized version of the original Driscoll cattle brand. It exemplified the Texas patriotism ingrained in our institution through our founder, Clara Driscoll.
The circle signifies dedicated continuity of care. In combination, the two form the image of a child with outstretched arms seeking help and recovery through faith and hope... the spiritually uplifting emotions so vital in the healing process.
The dimensional image of a child's building blocks symbolizes the unified comprehensive care offered by our staff of dedicated health care professions who assist physicians in the building of healthy futures for the children and adolescents served by Driscoll Children's Hospital.
Benefits
We offer:
Excellent Compensation, Benefits and Retirement Plans
Medical & Dental effective immediately