Our Mission
Shriners Hospitals for Children has a mission to:
- Provide the highest quality care to children with neuromusculoskeletal conditions, burn injuries and other special healthcare needs within a compassionate,
family-centered and collaborative care environment. - Provide for the education of physicians and other healthcare professionals.
- Conduct research to discover new knowledge that improves the quality of care and quality of life of children and families.
This mission is carried out without regard to race, color, creed, sex or sect, disability, national origin, or ability of a patient or family to pay.
Our Vision
Become the best at transforming children’s lives by providing exceptional healthcare through innovative research, in a patient and family-centered environment.
Care Beyond Cost
We are committed to providing the best care for children in our specialty areas of Orthopaedics, Burn Care, Spinal Cord Injury, and Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate, regardless of a family’s ability to pay.
Sharing our Expertise
Shriners Hospitals for Children offers educational awareness and injury prevention materials to ensure the health and safety of all children.
Leaders in Research
Shriners Hospitals for Children strives to transform children’s lives by providing exceptional health care through high-quality, innovative research in a patient and family-centered environment. We are committed to the pursuit of seminal, cutting-edge discoveries that result in new knowledge and improve the therapeutic treatment, quality of care and provided outcomes to our patients and their families. Today’s research is tomorrow’s patient care.
Marc Lalande, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research
Shriners Hospitals for Children
