DRISCOLL RECIEVES $5,000 GRANT
FROM GRANDE COMMUNICATIONS® FOR FREE CPR KITS

Kits, training to be given away at upcoming Nueces Co. Health Fair - free and open to public

Grande Communications® Check Presentation
Monday August 21, 2006 ? 1:30 p.m.
Driscoll Children’s Hospital - Main Lobby

(Corpus Christi, TX) Almost 80% of cardiac arrests occur at home and are witnessed by a family member. Less than 5% of sudden cardiac arrest victims survive because the vast majority of those witnessing the arrest are people who do not know how to perform CPR. Fast, efficient CPR can double or triple a victim’s chance of survival. On Monday, August 21, 2006 at 1:30 p.m., Driscoll Children’s Hospital will receive a $5,000 grant from Grande Communications® to purchase Friends & Family CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) Anytime Kits. The grant was funded through Grande’s Passion & Commitment Investment Club.

“We are delighted to support Driscoll and the Family and Friends CPR Training Program,” said Dottie Lane, General Manager of Grande. “The CPR Anytime kits will help increase the number of trained individuals who can save lives in emergency situations.”

The CPR Kits
The Family & Friends CPR Anytime Kits are personal CPR training programs that can be used by an individual in the home or offered in a group setting. These kits are easily implemented in workplace programs, school programs, parent/teacher programs, youth programs and many other community-based programs. The kits contain a CPR Skills DVD, resource booklet, CPR mannequin and other accessories, and can be used with an initial CPR training and shared with others or used to refresh CPR skills. By passing on to family and friends, the kits can be used to train a large network of people.

Nueces County Medical Society’s Health Fair – Saturday, August 26, 2006
The Family & Friends CPR Anytime Kits Committee comprised of American Heart Association volunteers from around the Coastal Bend will facilitate training sessions lead by CPR Anytime Kits at the Nueces County Medical Society’s Health Fair on Saturday, August 26, 2006. Families are encouraged to attend the free event and pick up two free kits.

“Each family will be allowed to receive two kits,” says Diana Moser, Clinical Education Specialist at Driscoll Children’s Hospital and American Heart Association Volunteer. “We want this to be like a ripple effect. Mom receives a training kit and participates in the training, but then she can take it home and share with dad, grandma or any other adult in their family. This is not a training that ends with one person.”

For more information on CPR contact the American Heart Association at 1-877-AHA-4CPR or Family & Friends CPR Anytime visit www.cpranytime.org.

Grande Communications® Passion & Commitment Club
Grande Communications’ P & C Investment Club is a company matching philanthropic program in which employees donate a percentage of their salaries to charities that address basic human needs - food, clothing, shelter and health - or provide access to technology for low income families. Since its inception, more than 60 percent of Grande’s employees have enrolled in the program and the P & C Investment Club has contributed more than $1 million to a variety of deserving organizations. To view a complete history of grants from the Passion & Commitment Investment Club, visit www.grandecom.com/About/community_pc.jsp.

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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