Kathleen Smith

The Houston Texans' Kris Brown autographs a football for a pint-sized patient at Texas Children's Hospital. While visiting, Brown presented the hospital with a check for $119,000 from his foundation.

SUMMIT SIGNERS—Pat Starck, D.S.N., dean of The University of Texas School of Nursing at Houston, looks on as development board member Robert Cizik signs a beam, which later was placed atop the new UT School of Nursing and Student Community Center.

RELIEF SPELLED F-E-M-A—Memorial Hermann Hospital executives accept a check representing the first obligation of funds from the Federal Emergency Management for requested disaster assistance following Tropical Storm Allison.

LADY OF THE DANCE— Mary Walsh, Texas’ Irish dancing champion. and her fellow 5th-grade students from Corpus Christi Catholic School, perform for patients and staff at The Methodist Hospital’s Rehabilitation Center.