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Shriners Hospitals for

Children

95 Years of Compassion and Care

ince opening the doors of our first hospital in
Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1922, Shriners Hospitals for
SChildren has grown into one of the finest pediatric
specialty health care systems in the world. Thanks to the
dedication and hard work of members of the Shriners
International fraternity – the organization that founded and
continues to support the health care system – one hospital
soon became two, two became 10, and by 1985, 22 Shriners
Hospitals for Children were making a difference in the lives of
children in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Today, Shriners Hospitals for Children is one of the largest
pediatric sub-specialty health care systems in the world,
offering excellent care for orthopaedic conditions, burns,
spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate. Shriners
Hospitals for Children are places where the emphasis is on
the patient, and care plans are designed to meet the patients’
and families’ goals and concerns. Our medical staff is
determined to provide the best, most comprehensive care it
can to ensure that our patients become as healthy, active and
independent as possible.

Shriners Hospitals for Children is known for its patient-
centered, compassionate approach to medical care. Our to more accurately analyze a specific situation within the
patients often discover a new sense of hope and confidence, context of the patient’s entire musculoskeletal system, which
and return home able and determined to be active enhances the medical staff’s ability to determine the best
participants in their homes, schools and communities, and to course of treatment. Obtaining the images needed while
live their dreams. This total commitment to the well-being of reducing radiation exposure is especially important, as
children is just one reason Shriners Hospitals for Children is a many of our patients will require several X-rays over the
highly respected organization within the health care industry. course of their care.

We would like to share a few recent highlights of the ways we More MAGEC Procedures
continue to strive to offer the best care that we can.
The MAGEC (MAGnetic Expansion Control) Spinal Bracing
Increasing the Availability of Low-dose and Distraction System, an alternative treatment for young
X-ray Technology children with scoliosis curves too large for bracing, was
introduced in 2014. Typically, large and potentially life-
We are installing EOS X-ray systems at the majority of threatening scoliosis curves are treated with traditional
our locations. The EOS system uses up to 85 percent less growing rods, which require a moderate surgical procedure
radiation than traditional X-rays, and up to 20 times less than for implantation, then a smaller procedure every six months
a computed tomography (CT) scan, while generating high to lengthen the spine. Although the lengthening procedures
quality three dimensional views of patients’ bone structures are relatively minor, they still involve general anesthesia, risk
in either a sitting or standing position. This allows physicians of infection, anxiety and discomfort.

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