Shriners Hospitals for Children

FACTS Shrine Menbership--Approximately 600,000 Number of Shrine Temples--91, located throughout North America Number of Shriners Hospitals--22; there are 19 orthopaedic hospitals and 3 Shriners Burns Institautes Cost for treatment at Shriners Hospitals--Nothing.  All care provided at Shriners Hospitals is totally without charge to the patient and family 1997 Shriners Hospitals budget--$425 million.  The operating budget is $359 million, including $21 million for research, and the capital expenditures budget is $66 million Where the money comes from--Gifts, bequests, income from the endowment fund, hospital fund-raising events, and the annual hospital assessment paid by every Shriner First Shriners Hospital--Opened in Shreveport, La., in 1922 Location and opening of Shriners Burns Institutes--Galveston, Texas, 1996; Cincinnati, 1968; Boston 1968 Location and  opening of Spinal Cord Injury Units--Pliladelphia,1980; Chicago,1983; San Francisco, 1984 Money spent operating Shriners Hospitals to date--About $3.4 billion on operating  costs; and $770 million on construction and renovations Number of children helped to date--More than 550,000 1996 hospital admisssions--22,340 1996 outpatient  & outreach clinic visits--222,094 1996 active  patients--162,126 Toll-free patient referral numbers In the USA, 1-800-237-5055;  in Canada,  1-800-361-7256

The  Shrine is  represented  locally  by  members  of: Twin City Shrine Club P.O. Box 62 Marinette, WI  54143 Who are in turn members of Beja Temple, Green Bay and Ahmed Temple, Marquette

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