C-USA Baseball Players Visit Pitt County Memorial Hospital
May 25, 2007 | Baseball
May 25, 2007
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GREENVILLE, N.C. - With no morning games scheduled at the 2007 Conference USA Baseball Championship, a number of C-USA players spent part of Friday morning at Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville, as part of C-USA's effort to become the best Division I-A collegiate conference in athletics, academics and in the community. Twelve student-athletes participated in the event, spending time visiting the rooms of the young children and playing games in the main activity room.
The hospital's mission is to enrich the health and developmental potential of children through a harmonious venture among the child, family, health care team and community.
The Children's Hospital is part of Pitt County Memorial Hospital, the tertiary care center for University Health Systems. That means it provides inpatient, outpatient and preventive care to a population of 1.3 million in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. As a teaching hospital for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and area schools of nursing and allied health, patients benefit from the latest and best research and treatment.
The 122-bed Children's Hospital admits about 7,300 pediatric patients each year and treats another 31,000 in outpatient visits. The staff is trained and prepared to care for the estimated 10,000 pediatric emergency department visits per year.
The hospital is a member of the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) and we the Vermont Oxford Database. These affiliations allow it to compare the care we provide with other children's hospitals across the country.
Student-athletes from host East Carolina as well as Memphis, Rice, Southern Miss, Tulane and UCF all were part of the visit. They passed out Conference USA t-shirts and signed many autographs for the kids, which brought smiles to all the faces involved.
For more information on the Children's Hospital, visit www.uhseast.com/childrens.
