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U.S. medical scientists say they've found environmental improvements can strengthen the physiological process of wound healing. Researchers from the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Boston Shriners Hospital found giving rats living in isolation the opportunity to build nests led to faster and more complete healing of burn injuries than was seen in isolation-reared rats without nest-building materials. The scientists said they also found...
Certified Management's 11th Annual Charity Golf Tournament is in Support of Associa Cares and Shriners Hospital for Children HONOLULU, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Certified Management, an Associa company, will be hosting Certified's 11th Annual Charity Golf Tournament on June 4, 2009 at Waikele Golf Club. The tournament benefits two deserving charities, Associa Cares and the Honolulu Shriners Hospital. Associa Cares is a national non-profit organization with a mission to lend support and...
Faced with decreasing donations and increasing operating costs, the charity wing of the Shriners organization is being forced to consider closing almost a fourth of their of their children's hospitals across North America.Given their increasingly dire financial situation, the group's director says they may have no choice in the matter.Officials say that the organization has had to divert about a million dollars daily from their endowment fund just to compensate for their hospitals' budget...
REDFORD, Mich., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Representatives from the fitness company Burn Machine (www.TheBurnMachine.com) paid a visit to the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Chicago last month to contribute to an extraordinary, albeit unique, cause; The Burn Machine donated more than $1500 worth of wheelchair-friendly exercise equipment to the first ever Shriners Wheelchair Bodybuilding Camp. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081203/CLW007 ) "We knew the equipment...
Dynacq Healthcare, Inc. (DYII) announced that its Surgery Specialty Hospitals of America - Southeast Houston Campus located in Pasadena, Texas reopened on September 30, 2008. The hospital was temporarily closed on September 12, 2008 because of the loss of power and the physical damages sustained as a result of Hurricane Ike. Once the repairs necessary to assure the safety of patients and employees, and the quality of operations, were made, the facility was reopened. Currently all services...
By Barbara Polichetti CRANSTON Gina Russo has had to rely on other people's words -- doctor's notes, family members' recollections -- if she wants to piece together what she lived through the three months after the Station nightclub fire. For 11 weeks after the 2003 tragedy, Russo lay in a medically induced coma at the Shriners Hospital in Boston while teams of doctors worked to keep her alive with more than 40 percent of her body burned, her head scorched with fourth-degree burns and...
Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (NYSE: MPW) announced today that none of its five properties in southeast Texas suffered significant damage from Hurricane Ike. All hospitals maintained full operations during and after the storm. The Company does not expect any financial impact from the effects of the storm. About Medical Properties Trust, Inc. Medical Properties Trust, Inc. is a Birmingham, Alabama based self-advised real estate investment trust formed to capitalize on the changing...
Shriners Hospitals for Children has selected Level 3 Communications, to provide network connectivity between the company's data center, hospitals and disaster recovery site. According to the terms of the multi-year agreement, Level 3 will deliver a virtual private network built on its upgraded multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network, with direct connections to several Shriners Hospitals and data center sites, and providing full mesh connectivity. Raouf Abdel, president of Level 3's...
By David Ball, The Port Arthur News, Texas Jul. 22--PORT ARTHUR -- Kathy Buchanan of Allen Mini Storage said helping children is the best feeling one can have. "I would do anything for a child," she said. Likewise, the Texas Self Storage Association launched the Make a Difference statewide campaign to emphasize the contributions made by self storage owners in their communities and to highlight the partnership with Shriners Children Hospital in Galveston. Allen Mini Storage and the Texas...
By Terry Friel NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Virbhadra Singh hopes he won't recognize the three teenagers when they come home to India in a year or two. The trio, two girls and a boy, lived for more than a decade with horribly disfiguring burns, until they were treated by an American charity medical team last year. Now they have gone to Houston in Texas for a painful series of operations. It is their first trip outside their state of Himachal Pradesh and their first away from the parents, who...
