Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick tours $100 million Rio Grande Valley hospital: ‘An answer to prayer’
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Saturday, April 20, 2024
Dan Patrick visited South Texas on Saturday to tour Driscoll Children’s Hospital Rio Grande Valley.
Key Points:
- Dan Patrick visited South Texas on Saturday to tour Driscoll Children’s Hospital Rio Grande Valley.
- Dan Patrick said, referring to the long drive patients in the Valley had to make to receive care at Driscoll Children's Hospital Corpus Christi, the nearest specialty acute care hospital for kids.
- “The opening of this hospital will be instrumental in improving access to pediatric specialty care for families in the Rio Grande Valley.
- Driscoll Children’s Hospital Rio Grande Valley, and the many pediatric subspecialists that will work in it, represent an entirely new level of services previously unavailable close to home,” said Matt Wolthoff, president of Driscoll Children's Hospital Rio Grande Valley.