The Children's Hospital, will benefit from one performance of the new family musical, Count To Ten, which is slated for a limited run at the Johnson City Community Theatre. Over half of the proceeds from the Sunday, January 13th, 2008, 7PM performance will go to the Capital Campaign for the Niswonger Children's Hospital. The hospital serves a population of 200,000 children from a 29-county area in Northeast Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, Western North Carolina and a portion of Kentucky. The new hospital, which will be located adjacent to the current JCMC building, will be 91,000-sq ft and will feature 24 medical/surgical inpatient beds with additional family and staff support space, and 10 pediatric intensive-care unit beds and eight progressive care beds in the neonatal intensive care unit. The Johnson City Medical Center's current Children's Hospital is one of only six St. Jude Children's Research Hospital affiliates in the country and accommodates more than 2,000 outpatient visits each year.

The original, cross-generational, tap your feet to the beat musical, COUNT TO TEN opens on January 11th and runs through January 20th at the Johnson City Community Theatre, 600 E. Maple Street, Johnson City, TN. Ticket’s for the 7pm Benefit Performance, on Sunday, January 13th, are only $35 and can be purchased by calling 1-866-811-4111.