CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx — A $100 million expansion of a state-of-the-art children's heart center has opened at Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi.

The hospital unveiled its newest heart center expansion today, featuring 35 new cardiac intensive care unit (ICU) beds and two new operating rooms.

The center will provide life-saving care to children with heart problems, like 1-year-old Conrad, who was born without the left side of his heart. Conrad has already undergone three open-heart surgeries.

"Children like Conrad unless they are treated immediately are not going to survive after they are born so to be able to have our new facilities and to be able to help children like Conrad allows us to help these children with these critically ill problems - who otherwise there is no hope fo

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