Shriners Hospitals Offer to Help Young Victims of Hurricane Katrina
Posted on: Friday, 2 September 2005, 15:00 CDT
Shriners Hospitals for Children stands ready to help young victims of Hurricane Katrina, according to Ralph W. Semb, Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the network of 22 pediatric specialty hospitals.
Teams of SHC medical professionals will be ready to travel to ravaged areas, in conjunction with their local community disaster/relief agencies and assist if needed.
In addition, Shriners Hospitals in Houston, Galveston, Texas (burns) and Shreveport, La. are ready to provide immediate medical support. In fact, we recently learned that the Houston and Shreveport Shriners Hospitals have already received a total of six referrals of children from shelters in Louisiana.
Chiefs of Staff at the Shriners Hospitals in Tampa, Fla., and St. Louis have reported they have bed space available for hurricane victims in need of the type of pediatric medical care normally provided by Shriners Hospitals.
The Shreveport Shriners Hospital Administrator, Garry "Kim" Green, is acting as the point person for the Shriners Hospitals' effort. He can be reached at (318) 222-5704.
Shriners Hospitals for Children is a network of 22 hospitals located throughout North America that provide state-of-the-art specialized pediatric orthopaedic, spinal cord injury and burn injury care. All medical care and services are provided at no cost. Shriners Hospitals spend $1.7 million a day providing state-of-the-art medical care to children under the age of 18 and to date over 770,000 children have been treated at a Shriners Hospital. For more information visit http://www.shrinershq.org
Source: Business Wire
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