Shriners Hospital
Shriners Hospital chain includes one specialized in orthopedic burn treatments, three catering to burn cases and eighteen orthopedic centers. The guiding principle of Shrines hospital is that any child below eighteen years of age can seek admission in the hospital, is the doctors feel that the infrastructure of the hospital can help the patient. Shriners Hospital has served the people for over eighty years now. The specialty areas of Shriners Hospital includes Palate repair, cleft lip repair, burn cases and spinal cord injuries.Shriners Child Hospital
Shriners Child Hospital is dedicated to the cause of improving the lives of the children. Since its inception, research has been an integral part of Shriners Hospital. Burn and orthopedic research is the strongest part of the hospital. Since the beginning of 1960s, Shriners Hospital have been funding basic and clinical research. Research at Shriners have contributed towards the development of new methods of treatment. Some of these include discovering the genetic factors causing ten bone diseases, methods for treating brittle bone diseases, cultured skin replacements for treating burn injuries and many more.Shriners Child Hospital has also been leaders in initiating innovations. It has been instrumental in setting by the first air ambulance for the children andfounded the first units for treating spinal cord injuries. Shrines Child Hospital have also pioneered in the formation of burn hospitals for children, first of its kind.
Shrines Hospital also also played an important role in promoting education and has trained more than eight thousand doctors in twenty years of its service. Shriners have also patronized charitable activities, since the beginning of 1900s.
