When cancer strikes a family, the news can be devastating. When the family member is a child, the whole world seems to stop. The medical condition along with the emotional, social and financial strains may seem overwhelming. Our cancer care helps heal because it embraces both advanced technology and simple human compassion. We know that family involvement helps a child maintain the mental and emotional tranquility needed to achieve a full recovery.
Heart care for children is another one of our specialties.
In South Texas, families with children who suffer from heart ailments can receive specialized care just for little hearts. Who Stay With Us. Who Stay With Us. Child Life Services are an integral part of the care provided on each floor of the hospital. This therapeutically based psychosocial support program is aimed at decreasing the amount of stress and anxiety a child experiences while in the hospital.