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SPRING 2014 | Vol.26 | No.2
Valerie Toledo MIRACLE CHILD
PLUS: MEDICINE FOR THE SOUL DRISCOLL CHAPLAINS STORY PAGE 3
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A Message from The Driscoll President and CEO
It has been an extraordinary year thus far, filled with challenges and accomplishments that make me proud of our world-class staff and their service to Driscoll Children’s Hospital. Our mission is to provide hope and healing to the children of South Texas. Our mission unites us and focuses our goals on the importance of quality care.
• As of April 1, 2014, the Driscoll Health Plan received full Health Plan Accreditation from the Utilization Review Accreditation
Commission (URAC). By applying for and receiving URAC accreditation, the Driscoll Health Plan has demonstrated a strong commitment to the quality of care and service to our patients.
• Additionally, a pediatric dialysis center will be opening soon in the Rio Grande Valley. The Driscoll Children’s Valley Dialysis Center will be a 4,155-square-foot clinic dedicated to pediatric dialysis patients and will include four dialysis stations. Board-certified pediatric nephrologists and a board-certified surgeon who performs pediatric kidney transplants will team with nurses, dietitians, social workers and office staff to provide the same hands-on, personal care to Driscoll patients who previously had to travel to Corpus Christi for their treatments.
• Recently, Driscoll Children’s Hospital was named one of five hospitals in the United States (the first in Texas and the first children’s hospital in the United States) as a MakerNurse Expedition Site. The MakerNurse Initiative is an effort led by the Little Devices Lab at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to honor the inventive spirit of nurses across America.
The future is bright for our patients and providers. Each day we see progress on the construction of our Emergency Department expansion. Our successes are the result of our team of talented and dedicated staff from every discipline. I am honored to represent them as we serve this community and its residents. Their hard work is what makes Driscoll Children’s Hospital the heart of our community.
Steve Woerner | President and CEO Driscoll Children’s Hospital
A Message from The Driscoll Development Foundation Board President
As I complete my two-year term as President of the Driscoll Children’s Hospital Development Foundation Board, I leave with a deep sense of gratitude for all of my fellow board members who have worked so generously to ensure that Driscoll and the care it offers for children in South Texas is of the finest quality. We all have a great passion for Driscoll, and we believe it is our mission to make sure Driscoll continues to offer children premiere healthcare services with cutting edge advancements.
For each of us, it is an honor to bring our talents and expertise to the table in a way that helps offer new opportunities, new possibilities and new conversations about hope and healing. In that spirit, I am so proud of the programs and services that are provided at Driscoll Children’s Hospital. Driscoll offers a broad scope of programs and services that address the ever-present healthcare needs for children and their families throughout South Texas.
A specific area of need and growing concern facing South Texas is adolescent weight management. If you take a look at a few of the statistics, it is easy to see why child and adolescent obesity is an issue that we must take on, actively help with and participate in whenever and wherever we can. It is indeed critical. Just to show you the magnitude of the problem, below are a few graphic statistics that come to you via Driscoll Pediatric Surgeon, Dr. Mohammad A. Emran.
• Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children in the past 30 years.
• The percentage of children ages 6–11 in the U.S. who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to 18% in 2010. For adolescents ages 12–19, obesity increased from 5% to more than 18%, during the same period.
• In 2010, more than one-third of all U.S. children and adolescents were overweight or obese; significantly increasing risk factors for cardiovascular disease including high cholesterol and high blood pressure, plus pre-diabetes.
• As for adults in the U.S, collectively 68.8% are overweight or obese.
These are definitely staggering statistics by any standard, and at first glance, might appear impossible to overcome. But if we all join in, there is a possibility, an opportunity, to turn this issue of seemingly epidemic proportions around, at least in our own backyard. Youth in our area are beginning to sound the horn and spread the word about living a healthy lifestyle. Local youth are talking peer-to-peer through a program called “Mission Fit Possible” where 10 CCISD elementary schools are participating in a 10-week program that stresses fitness, as well as hosting and participating in an annual 5-K run. They are starting those conversations with each other—conversations that can and will make a difference. Perhaps as a community that should be our mission—to start those conversations, as it is those conversations that create the possibility of change, hope and healing.
Thank you for making a difference in the lives of our children at Driscoll Children’s Hospital!
Mary Clark | President Driscoll Development Foundation Board
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Medicine for the SoulPage 3
Hope and HealingRadiothon Brings in Over $92,000Page 9
Kiewit Presents a
$50,000 GiftPage 10
Donor Spotlight Halliburton— All In, All the TimePage 11
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Valerie ToledoMIRACLE CHILD
Governing Board Nueces County Judge Loyd Neal Chair
Steve Woerner Vice Chair
William Dirksen, MD Chief of Staff
Murray Bass, Jr.
Reba Cardenas McNair
Paul Chapa
Mary Clark
Jim Devlin
Leon Smith-Harrison, MD
Martha Hinojosa
Lenora Keas
Bill Sterett
C. Ivan Wilson
Development Foundation Board of Directors 2013–2014
OFFICERS
Mary Clark President
Bob Cuvelier Vice President
Julie Buckley Treasurer
Wes Hoskins Secretary
Manette Scanio Past President
MEMBERS
David Ainsworth
Edgar Cortes, MD
Ann Engel
Diane D. Gates
Frank Hastings
Nancy Hawn
Alex Kirkland
Marc Layton
Paul McDaniel
Julie McNeil
Bill Moffitt
Liz Nisbet
Sherry Rumley
Rhonda Sellman
Richard Valls, Jr.
Sally Wallace
TRUSTEES EMERITUS
Gerald Eckel
Bernard Paulson
Rich Tuttle
EX-OFFICIO
Steve Woerner President/CEO
Martha Avery, CFRE Vice President
Driscoll Children’s Hospital
3533 South Alameda Street
Corpus Christi, Texas 78411
(361) 694-5000
TTY Deaf Messaging (800) 735-2989
www.DriscollChildrens.org
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f you are looking for Alan
Bagnall, MDiv, BCC, Director
of Pastoral Care at Driscoll
Children’s Hospital, don’t look in
his office. Odds are you won’t
find him there, and actually,
that’s exactly the way he likes it.
“If you find me in my office at Driscoll,” Chaplain Alan quips, “that’s probably a mistake, because I don’t believe I am doing my job here if I’m sitting in my office. My job, my mission, is to be in the halls, be in the PICU, NICU or ICU sitting with a parent, a family, a child, anywhere I’m needed, when I’m needed, not,” he smiles, “at the desk in my office.”
And for the past 20 years, Alan Bagnall has been providing pastoral care and counseling at Driscoll Children’s Hospital; that’s pretty much how it’s been, and he plans to keep it that way.
“When I came to Driscoll in 1994, I interviewed with Dr. Ted Stibbards. Driscoll didn’t have a chaplain at the time. In fact I was the first one. Dr. Stibbards originally hired me on a six-month trial basis. I shared a space with social services. I had a chair next to a shelf,” he smiles, “and I got to use the top shelf. And that was all I really needed.”
“You know,” he smiles again, “the best part about being the first and only one in a particular setting, is that you can create what you want in a way that you want. I call what I created when I first came to Driscoll ‘Ministry By Wandering Around.’ My favorite thing is when I hear people
say, ‘I came by your office today and you weren’t there.’ I just love that,” he says.
And obviously everyone else does too as Chaplain Alan’s conversational style of ministry and leadership not only caught on, but has become an integral part of life at Driscoll for the patients, parents and the staff.
“From the beginning, I wanted to make a difference here. So for the first six years I was at Driscoll, I made it my mission to be available 365 days a year, seven days a week, 24 hours a day. No matter when or where I was needed, I would be there. And if I went out of town for any reason, I got someone to carry my pager and they would come. We would be there anytime, day or night. And that is what I have always believed, that we as pastoral caregivers should always be here, always be available.”
MEDICINE
Today there are three full-time chaplains at Driscoll and one chaplain resident who are all there to serve the children and their families, as well as the staff.
“Sometimes a staff person is in need of pastoral care or counseling,” explains Chaplain Alan, “and they ask me to come, or they ask me if I would go and see their mom or dad. For me that is an honor; talking to people is my calling and it is always a privilege to be asked and to get to go.”
In addition to the on-going individual pastoral care provided at Driscoll, there are several special programs that the Driscoll chaplains provide and participate in for patients and staff. They include the annual Memorial Service (“Remember Our Children”), Tea For The Soul, Pastoral Education and Lecture Series and Lean On Me, a structured six-week bereavement support group for children and families who have experienced the loss of a loved one. The program is provided in conjunction with the Stripes Child Life Program and Driscoll Social Services.
“The annual Memorial Service, I feel is one of the most important things we do here at Driscoll,” says Chaplain Alan. “We started this service about 18 years ago and the first time we offered it we had about 50 people attend. Today there are 700 to 800 who come.
“Fortunately, the Lion’s share of children who come to Driscoll are healed and go on to have wonderful lives. But for those families who do lose a child, that moment, that time is etched in their minds forever. And who they meet, who they talk to and the experiences they have are among the most meaningful of their entire lives. This service keeps them connected to the people who meant so much to them at one of the most difficult times in their lives. It is so important and so significant.”
As for Tea For The Soul, it is a program designed to help and support the staff as they work daily to offer hope and healing to all the children who come to Driscoll.
“Tea For The Soul is really very simple,” explains Chaplain Alan, “but it is so important for the staff. We take a tea cart and, at their request, go to the PICU, the NICU, or wherever it’s needed and provide tea with cookies and offer music via CD player. And,” he smiles and shrugs, “you would think we had brought them the greatest gift in the world. What Tea For The Soul does is provide the staff with a chance to step aside, for just a minute, from the daily stress. For them it is a ‘Tea For The Soul Moment,’ one that seems to be making a significant difference.”
The Lean On Me program, which was started by the Stripes Child Life Program several years ago is for children who have lost a sibling, a relative, a friend. Lean On Me is designed to provide support, not therapy for children. It allows children to
meet other children their own age who have had a similar experience and to help them begin the healing process.
“Everything we do here at Driscoll is about listening,” explains Chaplain Alan. “To listen you need to be around; you need to be here walking the halls. You need to be present, and people need to know, to feel and to understand that they are important. They need to know that you are there for them to hold their hands, to cry and to laugh with them.”
“Understanding who the children and their families are who come to Driscoll and what they are going through is not just our job; it’s our calling. And I must say,” Chaplain Alan shares earnestly as he walks down the hall passing his office once again, “for those of us serving as Driscoll chaplains, it is definitely a privilege.”
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Alan Bagnall, MDiv, BCC, Director of Pastoral Care
Left to right: Alan Bagnall, MDiv, BCC; Ana Olivera-Hamm, BA, LCDC; Chaplain Fr. Varghese K. Ethappiri and Lee Jump, MDiv
Alan Bagnall, MDiv, BCC and David Ryan, MD
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“The next morning Valerie got up about 9:30 and she said she felt better, so I told her to go ahead and get up and get dressed. But then she said that her left side felt like it was asleep, that pins and needles kind of feeling, and she couldn’t really move it. I kind of shrugged and said, ‘well go ahead and get up and it will go away.’ But it didn’t. She was kind of dragging her left leg when she came in to to have breakfast. Then, I told her to smile, and I noticed instantly that the left side of her mouth was drooping. That’s when I really became concerned.”
“I knew Valerie needed immediate attention. Something was really wrong. We live in Orange Grove and had just recently moved to South Texas from Dallas. But I had heard of Driscoll Children’s Hospital and I knew that’s where we needed to go.”
“I called my husband and my neighbor, took my two babies and my 4-year-old to her house, and I took Valerie straight to the Driscoll Emergency department.”
By the time Yvette and Valerie arrived at the Driscoll Emergency Department at about 1 p.m., Valerie was much worse. She was not talking, and when she did speak, her speech was slurred. She was completely lethargic, was dragging her left side and couldn’t really move her left arm at all.
“When they saw Valerie,” recalls Yvette, “they immediately took us to a room in the Emergency area and started trying to determine exactly what was happening. At that point, Valerie could still talk and she
seemed fine mentally. They examined her and then told me they were going to take her for an MRI.”
From the apparent symptoms, the concern for Valerie was that she either had experienced some type of seizure, a stroke or a bleed in her brain. Yvette was told that the MRI images should hold the answer. And they did.
“The MRI imagery,” explains Dr. Carol Deline, pediatric neurologist, “showed that Valerie had a fairly large hemorrhage in the brain stem, or in the pons of the brain which causes swelling and in turn, causes areas of the brain not to function.”
“The bleeding itself had occurred when Valerie had the excruciating headache the day before. In the brain stem, where Valerie’s bleed had actually occurred, is a very small area, so even a small amount of blood can do a great deal of damage.”
Following the MRI and initial diagnosis, Valerie was admitted to Driscoll and immediately was started on steroids to decrease the swelling in the brain. At that point she no longer was talking, but she was stable.
“When Dr. Deline came in to see us,” recalls Yvette, “she told us that Valerie had experienced a bleed in her brain stem. We couldn’t believe it. And she said that it could have been caused by a cavernous angioma. Then she began to explain that a cavernous angioma is a cluster of abnormal blood vessels mainly found in the brain and spinal cord that can either be genetic or sporadic, occurring with no family history.
“And then it hit me, I have a cavernous angioma too. I told Dr. Deline and she said that knowing that was very helpful for moving forward for Valerie. She also said that cavernous angiomas are not uncommon, and people often have them their whole lives and they are not a problem.”
But Valerie’s was definitely a problem. And something was going to have to be done about it immediately.
“Before Dr. Deline left on Wednesday evening, she told us Dr. Burke, the neurosurgeon, was going to take a look at the MRI and they would do some further tests, then they would determine exactly what they needed to do for Valerie.
“After she left, Valerie went to sleep, and Raul and I stayed with her. She seemed okay, until she woke up in the middle of the night screaming and saying, ‘it hurts, it hurts, it hurts so bad.’ They gave her something to calm her down and she went back to sleep. When she woke up on Thursday morning, she was repeating things over and over again. Someone would say something and she would say it again and again until someone came in and said something else and she would start repeating that. And that went on non-stop all that day and all night. They told us that was caused by the brain bleed and swelling.”
On Thursday, Valerie’s condition became increasingly worse as she began to have double vision, continued to talk excessively and feel dizzy. She could not move the left side of her body at all.
“Dr. Burke came in to see us, and told us Valerie was going to need surgery. He answered all of our questions, and was very honest with us,” recalls Raul.
“He said, ‘I can’t promise you what the outcome will be. Only time will tell us how it is going to turn out. But, if Valerie doesn’t have this surgery,’ Raul pauses, his eyes filling as he recalls the words and the moment, “‘she won’t make it. We have to save her life first, and then we’ll have to see what’s next.’”
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For Valerie and her family, it all began the Tuesday after Halloween. Valerie was at school and she was not feeling well. She had a terrible headache, was crying and wanted to go home. The school nurse phoned her mom, Yvette, and shortly thereafter, Valerie headed home.
“When she got home,” remembers Yvette, “Valerie’s headache was not any better so she went straight to bed. She woke up some time later, still with the headache, then got sick and went back to bed. She got up again, still complaining of a headache, but she ate and then went back to sleep for the night. We all figured she would be better in the morning, and she was.”
Valerie ToledoCELEBRATING THE UNEXPECTED!
By Debra Young Hatch
Medicine always seeks the answer, the explanation for the outcome, the result. But the truth is there are times when there is not a definitive answer, at least not one that fits neatly into a prescribed box and falls easily into a scientifically acceptable category. Sometimes things just are. And for 9-year-old Valerie Toledo and her family, there is no doubt that their experience would certainly qualify as one of those times.
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As Valerie’s dad, Raul Toledo, begins to share her story, he says thoughtfully, “After Valerie’s surgery, her surgeon, Dr. Burke, came to talk to my wife, Yvette, and I. And the first thing he asked us was,
‘Do you believe in God?’ We both nodded. Then Dr. Burke said,” recalls Raul as he glances at his now smiling, young daughter chatting easily with her mom, “I want you both to know, it was God who did this for Valerie, not me.”
And if asked, Valerie’s parents definitely would agree with that assessment, but probably also would add that Michael Burke, MD, neurosurgeon, and everyone else at Driscoll Children’s Hospital who helped their daughter, were all part of God’s plan for Valerie’s survival and ultimately, her full recovery.
Left to Right:Dr. Carol Deline
and Valerie Toledo
Photography by Fonzie Muñoz
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“But,” Dr. Burke said, “it’s important for you to know, that whatever happens, this bleed in the brain stem is in the worst spot it could be and it affects everything. So the first thing is to get Valerie through the surgery. That will be a big step.”
On Friday morning at 6 a.m., Valerie Toledo left her room for surgery, and her parents did not know when or if their daughter would be back.
“My prayer,” Yvette remembers as she wipes her eyes, “was for God to just bring her back, and we’ll do whatever we need to do to help her in whatever way she needs. If she was paralyzed, we would take care of her, if she could no longer speak, we would be there to help her, whatever her struggles might be, we would be there for her. Just please bring her back.”
Seven-and-a-half hours later, Yvette and Raul’s prayers were answered. Valerie was back, and according to Dr. Burke, all went well.
“Dr. Burke told us,” remembers Valerie, “that they removed everything, including the blood clot which was causing the pressure, and everything looked good. It was a cavernous angioma, one that she was born with, and now her head was clear. But how well she would recover remained questionable. We would just have to wait and see.”
“You know,” Yvette shares candidly, “no matter what came next, we felt very blessed and so thankful that Valerie was still here, still with us.”
Valerie remained in the Driscoll ICU for the next three days, improving significantly every day, but how much she would improve was still unknown.
“When you have an acute hemorrhage, you cannot tell the family that everything is going to be just fine,” explains Dr. Deline. “Because the truth is, you just don’t know. You can say you are going to do everything you can, but the extent of recovery depends on whether the swelling permanently damaged the brain, how long the pressure was there and if the neurons were temporarily or permanently damaged. The overriding question is: are the nerve cells just stunned from the trauma and the pressure, or are they gone and not coming back?”
“I have only seen a couple of brain stem hemorrhages in the 16 years I have been at Driscoll,” explains Dr. Deline. “And when you have that kind of bleed in that particular location, there is no backup. Anything that interrupts what the brain is doing can alter behavior, cognitive ability, personality, speech, everything. It is very frightening for the child and the family.”
“Every day we saw improvement,” says Yvette. “At first we would see small things like when she woke up in the morning, her smile would be bigger. Then she
started therapy and went to the CCISD school at Driscoll Hospital every day. There was a whole team at Driscoll helping Valerie recover and improve. Dr. Deline came to see her every day, twice a day.”
“They told us she would have to retrain her brain; basically she would be starting over with speech and cognition and she would be emotional and impulsive. And they were right. But everyone was there to help. You know, coming from Dallas, I thought,” Yvette explains candidly, “a small-town hospital might have small-town care and small town doctors. I was definitely wrong. Everyone at Driscoll could not have been better. It has truly been an amazing experience for Valerie and our whole family.”
“And Dr. Burke, he said to us, ‘I want you to know, this kind of outcome, well it just doesn’t happen. This is really something.’”
“I expected Valerie to recover,” explains Dr. Deline, “but not as fast or as completely as she has. In fact her recovery is the best of anyone’s that I’ve seen since I have been at Driscoll. Today, if she walked into any pediatrician’s office, she would be absolutely normal. It is definitely remarkable.”
But if you asked Dr. Deline, Dr. Burke or Yvette and Raul Toledo to tell you scientifically exactly how or why just two months after her major brain stem trauma and ensuing surgery, Valerie Toledo was once again back in school at Orange Grove, laughing, learning and living the life of a happy 9-year-old, they couldn’t do it. Instead, they would all probably just shake their heads and tell you, there is no medical explanation, no definitive, quantifiable answer; it just is and in this case it is one of those times, for the inexplicable, they all are indeed most thankful.
Fiesta de los Niños 2014 was just phenomenal! Held at the American Bank Center, this deep-rooted event brought out over 1,500 friends of the Hospital for a wonderful evening of food, dancing and camaraderie which raised well over $790,000. The proceeds from this year’s event helped purchase state-of-the-art 3D technology for Driscoll’s catheter-ization suite to perform the most delicate procedures on infants and children.
A Toe Tapping Success!2014
Left to right: Tom Hunt, Allison Vicki Gaarder, Phil Gaarder,
and Steve Woerner
Devereaux L. Nollie and Allister Arnold
Michael J. Burke, MD and Glenda Burke Mary Clark and Bernard Palson
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Intern for a Day The Intern for a Day program is designed to give participants a first-hand experience with health care delivery. The program has the additional goal of showing participants the unique role of a children’s hospital in a community.
“Thanks to Nueces Electric Coop, Inc. and Driscoll Children’s Hospital for making my ‘Intern for a Day’ experience at the hospital possible,” says Rumaldo Z. Juarez, Ph.D. “Since my internship I no longer just drive by this multi-story building on Alameda Street known as a ‘children’s hospital.’ Instead, I think of the many children receiving the best quality comprehensive healthcare services that money can provide in a facility operated by an effective and efficient administration and staffed by a professional team of healthcare providers that are highly skilled, and most important, really care about and love those children in need of their services. Like many folks in our state, when I think of the best cancer facility in Texas, I think of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. In the same light, when I think of children in need of healthcare services, I think of Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi. It is imperative that all of us continue to provide the necessary financial and community support to this institution so that those children in need of healthcare services may lead a prosperous and healthy quality of life.”
For more information about the Driscoll Children’s Hospital Intern for a Day Pro-gram please contact Cissy Garcia, Major Gifts Officer at 361-694-4394.
The 12th Annual K99 Radiothon broadcast on March 7, 2014 at Driscoll Children’s Hospital raised more than $92,000! Community volunteers manned the phones, including members of Planet Fitness, Super Cuts, Driscoll Auxiliary
and employees, RE/MAX, V-Fit, Mattress Firm, and several grateful patient families, received pledges during the 12 hours the Radiothon was broadcast.
Brings in Over
$92,000 for the Children at Driscoll.
K99’s 12th Annual
HOPE AND HEALINGRepresentatives from Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd. presented a gift for $50,000 to Driscoll Children’s Hospital. “Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd. and its employees are proud to support Driscoll Children’s Hospital,” said Bob Shockney, Kiewit District Business Manager. “We are committed to work with an organization that has made such a meaningful difference in the lives of thousands of Texas families for 60 years.”
On Feb. 8, Driscoll Children’s Hospital held a Congenital Heart Disease Awareness Celebration for its pediatric cardiology patients and families at the Corpus Christi Science and History Museum that included games, activities and refreshments.
“We wanted to recognize the thousands of people born with heart defects, remember loved ones who’ve lost their battle with congenital heart defects and honor the dedicated health professionals who work with them,” said Laura Esparza, LMSW, social worker at Driscoll Children’s Hospital.
Patients like Saleen Salinas, 2, were at the celebration. Saleen was born six weeks early with several birth defects, including Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), a rare, complex congenital heart defect that involves four different heart defects.
“As soon as they cut her umbilical cord she turned blue,” recalled Daniela Bazan,
Saleen’s mother. “Two hours later when doctors were able to stabilize her, she was airlifted [from Kingsville] to Driscoll.”
Bazan was able to join her daughter two days later, when at three days old, Saleen had a Blalock–Taussig (BT) shunt placed in her heart. At 10 months old, she had her first open-heart surgery. Since that first day two years ago, Saleen has been a regular at Driscoll Children’s Hospital seeing 11 different specialists.
Multiple doctor’s appointments, procedures and hospital stays are the reality for many South Texas children like Saleen, and telling her daughter’s story during CHD Week is a way for Bazan to create awareness for the disease.
“Driscoll’s party was a way we could celebrate them—the survivors, the warriors—and it’s a way to remember the angels as well,” Bazan said.
Kiewit Offshore Services Presents Check for $50,000
Driscoll to Celebrate with and Recognize Cardiology Patients with Congenital Heart Defects
COMMUNITY GIVING
Left to right: Rumaldo Z. Juarez, PhD; Mahavir Bhakta and Al Sandoval
Left to right: Roger Timperlake, MD and Rumaldo Z. Juarez, PhD
Left to right: Valerie Toledo, Carol Deline, MD and Yvette Toledo
Left to right: John Hardin, Richard Harris, Martha Avery and Bob Shockney
Katrina Hill and Sam Hill
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Sitting in their corporate conference room in their offices just south of San Antonio on Highway 37 listening to Joe Foster and Neil Schmidt—both 30-plus year employees—talk passionately about their belief in their company and what it does worldwide, it’s easy to see why they and Halliburton consider themselves to be “all in” in every single city in which the company can be found.
“Wherever we are as a company,” explains Joe Foster, Halliburton Vice President – Southeast Area Business Development, “we are definitely ‘all in.’ We are there working and contributing. We’re building roads, schools, infrastructure and water systems. We’re helping with natural disasters and medical needs.
And we are there for the good times and the not-so-good times. In other words, at Halliburton we don’t consider ourselves just a community partner; we are instead part of the community. It is part of our culture, who we are as a company and who we are as individuals.”
And it is apparent that what he says is true because Halliburton, a 95-year-old upstream oil and natural gas products and services company, established by Erle P. Halliburton in 1919, has been one of those companies that is definitely “all in” in every way possible and in every community in which they are located. Today that means they are “all in” in 80 countries worldwide, along with their 75,000 employees and families who live and work in almost every corner of the world as they contribute of themselves, their expertise and their dollars, individually and collectively.
“At Halliburton we don’t just donate,” says Foster, “or make charitable contributions
in a community. It is important to us to do more and be more than that. To our way of thinking, it is so important for us to give in every way we can to a community. And we do it from our individual employees, to our teams, to our managers—all the way to the top.”
As far as donations go, there is no doubt, by any standard, that Halliburton gives most generously. In 2013 alone, the company gave more than $4 billion through in-kind donations and employee-directed contributions to nonprofit organizations and education institutions around the world. But in addition to those dollars given, they also gave of themselves as they went physically to help with the Oklahoma tornado disaster and they were right there on the ground helping with the fires in Caldwell.
“We believe if we are part of a community, we need to be there to help,” explains, Neil Schmidt, Senior District Manager, “no matter what the crisis. In the Caldwell fires, several of our employees were impacted and we wanted to help. We were definitely in the middle of that effort.”
Currently more than 15,000 Halliburton employees live in Texas, 2,400 of those are in South Texas, and they all are part of making the choices for giving in Texas. In fact, the company has a specific campaign entitled “Giving Choices.”
“Employees participate, and they recommend and select what charities we give to each year,” explains Foster. “We give to 1,450 charitable organizations across the globe and last year our employees contributed over $3 million. ‘Giving Choices’ is a great program, created by our Chairman, President and CEO, Dave Lesar, and it is the backdrop for everything we do and everything we give.”
Another way Halliburton contributes is via their annual golf tournament.
“We have been hosting our golf tournament in Houston for 20 years,” says Foster, “which now has 500 golfers
participating, 150 vendors and 90 Halliburton volunteers. And over those 20 years a total of $8.5 million has been raised and donated to a short list of 18 U.S. charities.”
And for the past three years Driscoll Children’s Hospital has been fortunate to be one of the recipients on that special list.
“We are thrilled to be able to give to Driscoll,” says Schmidt. “The recommendation to consider Driscoll first came from our employees. Driscoll was their top choice. Driscoll is deeply rooted in South Texas and has a tremendous impact on all of South Texas.”
“You look at the impact Driscoll has on the community and South Texas and there is actually not any amount of money that could ever be contributed that could come close to matching that.”
“Driscoll provides medical services for so many,” emphasizes Foster, “but it also helps people have a better life and it provides hope. And,” he says thoughtfully, “you always want to have hope.”
There is no doubt that at Halliburton, they are a team from top to bottom. They believe that everything they do is the result of a team effort. No matter the project, it’s all about the team. In fact, they
literally wear that attitude on their sleeves, as each uniform says “Team Halliburton” across one shoulder. It’s all part of their culture; it is who they are every single day at Halliburton.
“I’ve been here 38 years,” says Schmidt “and Joe has been here for 34 years. Obviously,” he smiles, “we believe in the company. But just like everyone else, in our work and business lives we all know that there are the good days, and there are the not-so-good days. And then there are the best days. The definition of those days kind of depends on your attitude. But for Joe and me, I can give you an example that pretty much says it all.”
“The day we were driving to Driscoll recently,” recalls Schmidt, “and we were going to have the honor of presenting them with a $50,000 check for the Emergency Room renovations. That day, I remember Joe looking over at me in the car, holding up the check and saying, ‘You know Neil, this check we have and what we are about to do—give this check to Driscoll—to my way of thinking, it’s one of the highest points of what we do,’ and then he got this big smile on his face, nodded his head and said, ‘this definitely counts as one of the best days.’”
Donor Spotlight:
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By Debra Young Hatch
HALLIBURTON All In, All the Time
Representatives of Halliburton
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The Driscoll Life Magazine is published
by the Driscoll Development Foundation
to inform donors and friends on
the progress, successes and needs
of Driscoll Children’s Hospital. The
magazine features patient and donor
stories, information about hospital
programs and services, medical
treatment updates and information
about volunteer and community
activities in support of the hospital.
To read a virtual copy online please go to
www.driscollchildrens.org/giving
For more information please call the Driscoll
Development department at 361-694-4394.
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Development Foundation3533 South Alameda StreetCorpus Christi, Texas 78411-1785
www.DriscollChildrens.org
Save the Date30th Annual
Children’s Miracle Network Celebration
May 31 – June 1L I V E B R O A D C A S T SCORPUS CHRISTI Kiii-TV3Saturday, May 31, 20147 pm – Midnight • La Palmera Mall, Center Court
Sunday, June 1, 2014Noon – 5 pm • La Palmera Mall, Center Court
PLEASE JOIN US!
Sponsored by Lyssy & Eckel Feeds
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Three Rivers, Monday, June 16 Hallettsville, Tuesday, June 24
Beeville, Friday, June 27 Alice, Tuesday, July 1
Rio Grande City, Friday, July 18Cuero, Tuesday, August 5
Edinburg, Saturday, August 9