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Patient Story
Learning to Live a New Life After a Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/10/Learning-to-live-a-new-life-after-a-pediatric-spinal-cord-injurySix-year-old Memphis was transferred to the Philadelphia Shriners Hospital after she broke her neck in a car accident near her home outside of West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Patient Story
Chloe's Bad Break
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/10/Chloes-bad-breakChloe knew something was wrong in the first few moments after she surfaced in the middle of the Lake of the Ozarks. Seconds before, the 16-year-old Wentzville, Missouri, girl had been thrown from a tube dragged by a speed boat. She looked at her left arm, floating in the water, and willed it to move...
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Patient Story
Finding the Beautiful Swan Within
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/10/Finding-the-beautiful-swan-withinThe year was 1979, and Shari was a shattered 11-year-old girl. With a spine curved so severely by scoliosis that she struggled to lift her head to look forward, she was the target of her classmates’ abuse. But then Shriners Hospital for Children — St. Louis entered her life via a scoliosis screening...
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News
The Building Blocks to Stronger Bones
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/10/The-building-blocks-to-stronger-bonesGrowing bones require more than just a glass of milk to remain up to the task of supporting kids as they run, jump and play. While childhood is the ideal time to build up that bone bank, adults also can adjust their lifestyles for better bone health. Here are three habits the whole family can follow...
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Cheers to Our Care Managers
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/10/Cheers-to-our-care-managersThe responsibilities a care manager carries can be immense, which is why it takes a special person to fill this role.
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Meet Our Care Managers!
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/10/Meet-our-care-managersNational Case Management Week 2020 is October 11 – 17 and we are celebrating our dedicated and compassionate care managers.
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Shriners Children's Twin Cities Joins with Blank Children's Hospital to Provide Specialty Orthopaedic Care
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/10/Shriners-Childrens-Twin-Cities-joins-with-Blank-Childrens-Hospital-to-provide-specialty-orthopaedicShriners Children’s Twin Cities joins with Blank Children’s Hospital to provide specialty orthopaedic care to children in Central Iowa
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Salt Lake City Shriners Hospital Ranks in Top 25 Best Children's Hospitals
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/10/Salt-Lake-City-Shriners-Hospital-ranks-in-top-25-best-childrens-hospitalsU.S. News & World Report has announced its 2020-2021 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings and the Salt Lake City hospital, in partnership with the University of Utah Health and Primary Children’s Hospital, ranked #24 in the nation in the orthopedics category.
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Patient Story
The Tools of the Trade
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/09/The-tools-of-the-tradeA tear slid down Ashleigh Bentz’s cheek as she opened the toolbox. A shoe horn. A pipe cutter. Clamps. The tools that helped make Marvin Hohbein the master prosthetist that he was for decades at Shriners Hospitals for Children — St. Louis now were held tenderly in the hands of a former patient who h...
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COVID-19 (Coronavirus): What to Expect at Shriners Hospitals for Children — Boston
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/09/COVID-19-coronavirus-What-to-expect-at-Shriners-Hospitals-for-Children-BostonHealth and safety protocols in place at Shriners Hospitals for Children — Boston in response to COVID-19.