EDINBURG — Increasing access. These are the words most used to describe the occasion Friday as it marked the day Driscoll Children’s Hospital Rio Grande Valley launched its pediatric residency program.

For Matt Wolthoff, president of the hospital, this moment was a long time coming.

“This has been a major strategic priority for us as an organization,” Wolthoff said. “We knew we wanted to do this from the day we opened our doors.”

Now as they celebrate the program’s recent approval by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Wolthoff and his team are excited to take the next step toward helping curve the need in the area.

The program, which is funded in part by an endowment from Frost Bank, is scheduled to welcome its inaugural residents in July 2026.

In fact, the faci

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