SAN ANTONIO — Driscoll Children's Hospital is working to hire staff for its new location opening in the Rio Grande Valley in the spring of 2024—and the system has its eyes set on the Alamo City.
Hospital officials will host a recruitment event on Tuesday at the Embassy Suites along Landmark Parkway, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. The new facility, located in Edinburg, will bring much-needed specialty care for children in a medically underserved community.
"Recognizing the tremendous connectivity between San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley, we are here to tell our story and invite those health care professionals that are from South Texas to come home and help make a difference in the communities we serve," Matt Wolthoff, president of Driscoll Children's Hospital RGV, is quoted as saying in a news release.
The soon-to-open hospital is expected to be staffed by more than 700 employees, and will open with 119 available beds for young patients.
"Half a million children that are in the Rio Grande Valley, they deserve to have their own freestanding children's hospital," a Driscoll spokesperson said. "It's about bringing all that acute and specialty care to them at home."
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