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Who is eligible for admission to a Shriners Hospital?
Where are the Shriners Burns Institutes located and when did they open?
How are admission handled for the Shriners Burns Institutes?
What is the purpose of Shriners Hospitals for Children?
How much does it cost for a child to receive care at a Shriners Hospital?
Where are the Shrine's three Spinal Cord Injury Centers?
What was the total 2002 budget for Shriners Hospitals for Children?
How much of the Shriners Hospitals operating budget is used directly for patient care and research at the hospitals?
To date, how much money has been spent operating the twenty two Shriners Hospitals?
To date, how much has been spent on construction costs for the twenty two hospitals?
To date, how many children have been helped at the twenty two Shriners Hospitals?
In 2001, how many admissions were made to the orthopaedic hospitals?
In 2001, how many admissions were made to the burns hospitals?
In 2001, how many outpatient and outreach clinic visits were recorded at the 22 hospitals?

SHRINERS HOSPITALS

Canada's Shriners Hospital is part of a network of nineteen orthopaedic hospitals and three
burn institutes founded by the Shrine, where children under the age of 18 receive excellent
medical care absolutely free of charge.

Since 1922, when the first Shriners Hospital was built, more than $2 billion has been spent
building and operating Shriners Hospitals for Children. In 2002 alone, the operating budget
for the hospitals was approximately $526 million, the capital expenditures budget was $71
million.

Where does the money come from? Shriners Hospitals are supported primarily by income
from the Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children endowment fund, which is maintained
through donations and bequests from both Shriners and non-Shriners. Additional income
represents each Shriner's annual assessment and fundraising events sponsored by Shrine
Temples, Clubs and Units.

Shriners hospitals have been involved in research since the 1920's, but in the early 1960's
the Shrine aggressively entered the structured research field and began earmarking funds
for research projects. Since that time, Shriners Hospitals have been at the vanguard of
research, achieving significant progress in orthopaedic and burn treatment. Again, in 2002
alone, $24 million was allocated for structured research efforts.

One of the better known achievements of this Shriners Hospital research is the cultured
skin developed by the Boston Burns Institute in connection with the Harvard Medical
School. Researchers developed a method of "growing" skin from a tiny sample of a burn
patient's own skin. In a celebrated 1983 case, this breakthrough enabled the burns institute
to save the lives of two boys who were burned over 97 percent of their body surface, marking
the first time a cultured organ had ever been used in a life-saving situation, as well as the
first time a human being was known to survive such severe injury.

The Shriners believe that the hope for crippled and burned children in the future lies in the
research done today. Shriners Hospitals for Children work to make that hope a reality.

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