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Providing Life-Changing Care for Children With Limb Differences: Meet Rosie

Jun 26, 2024 https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2024/06/Rosie-Limb-Loss-Awareness

The Shriners Children’s Salt Lake City Pediatric Orthotic and Prosthetic Services department works with patients like Rosie to create one-of-a-kind prosthetics.

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Teen Is State Wheelchair Racing Champion Two Years in a Row

Aug 08, 2024 https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2024/08/Teen-Is-State-Wheelchair-Racing-Champion

Spine and spinal cord injury care at Shriners Children's helped Andrea roll to victories in wheelchair track.

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Hospital Board Member Pays it Back by Paying it Forward

Jan 28, 2021 https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2021/01/Hospital-board-member-pays-it-back-by-paying-it-forward

Board member Jim Atkins shares his story about becoming a Shriner and joining the board at thr Philadelphia Shriners Hospital.

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Gene Bradley Named the 2020 Employee of the Year

Jan 25, 2021 https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2021/01/Gene-Bradley-named-the-2020-Employee-of-the-Year

As staff members gathered, socially distanced, in the central activities area of Shriners Hospitals for Children — Salt Lake City, excitement was in the air. As voted on by staff members from the pool of 12 Employees of the Month from the year, the Employee of the Year was about to be announced.

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Spirit of Children Makes Visits Less Scary for Kids

Jan 27, 2021 https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2021/01/Spirit-of-Children-makes-visits-less-scary-for-kids

Spirit of Children provides Shriners for Children Medical Center with $48,756 donation.

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Fulkerson Osteotomy Successfully Addresses Most Common Cause of Pediatric Knee Pain

Jul 13, 2020 https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/07/Fulkerson-osteotomy-successfully-addresses-most-common-cause-of-pediatric-knee-pain

As of 2020, Shriners Hospitals for Children — Greenville’s T. Whitney Gibson, D.O., has now successfully completed over 50 of these life-improving operations.

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First in Chicago to Offer New Lightweight Prosthetic Partial Hand for Teenagers

Nov 19, 2020 https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/11/First-in-Chicago-to-offer-new-lightweight-prosthetic-partial-hand-for-teenagers

The Prosthetic and Orthotic Services (POPS) department now offers a lighter-weight hand prosthetic for teens. Shriners Hospitals is the first hospital in Chicago to offer the M-Fingers carbon fiber technology specifically designed to fit children.

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Medical Staff Presentations Strengthen and Advance Care for Patients

Oct 02, 2020 https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/10/Medical-staff-presentations-strengthen-and-advance-care-for-patients

Shriners Hospitals for Children — Northern California’s Assistant Chief of Orthopaedics Jon Davids, M.D., and orthopaedic surgeon Vedant Kulkarni, M.D., will present at the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Development Medicine (AACPDM) meeting.

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Kōkua Club Extends Helping Hand to Hawai'i Community

Dec 22, 2020 https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/12/Kkua-Club-extends-helping-hand-to-Hawaii-community

The Hawaiian word k?kua means “to extend help to others with no intent of personal gain.” As patients at Shriners Hospitals for Children — Honolulu receive this daily from their nurses, doctors and therapists, staff members in the recreational therapy department wanted to instill that feeling of giv...

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2020 Years of Service Awardees

Dec 16, 2020 https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/12/2020-Years-of-Service-Awardees

Employees who have received the Years of service award at Shriners for Children Medical Center — Pasadena