California
Board of Supervisors approves talks with Shriners on the lease of land for a 60-bed, 250,000-square-foot facility to treat children.
July 7, 2006
Travel & Experiences
Play golf alongside a PGA Tour pro during the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open Championship Pro Am on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at TPC Summerlin, the par-72, 7,243-yard course in Las Vegas.
July 30, 2015
World & Nation
The leader of the nation’s Shriners on Monday assailed as “inaccurate, wrong and confusing” a Florida newspaper report that claimed his fraternal organization gives its 22 hospitals for crippled children less than than one-third of the millions of dollars that it raises each year, spending the rest on travel, food and entertainment for its members.
July 1, 1986
Fitted with a brand new prosthetic leg from Shriners Hospitals for Children, a smiling 14-year-old South Korean girl left Los Angeles for home Tuesday, brimming with hope of leading a normal life.
Aug. 6, 2003
It was hard to corral 4-year-old Michael Rodriguez as he darted about the vast Shrine Exhibition Hall on Thursday, laughing and chasing an oddly shaped balloon that a red-faced clown had just handed to him.
June 24, 1988
Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, a San Francisco landmark for 67 years, will close and move to a new, $65-million hospital in Sacramento in 1993.
Aug. 1, 1990
Shriners Hospital pays attention to the special needs of kids whose attitude, behavior and ability may be affected by their discomfort.
Aug. 20, 2003
Nizar El-Barky, 15, a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, is a triple amputee who has gotten medical attention at the Los Angeles unit of Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children since 1991, after he lost both legs and one arm as he picked up an explosive device.
July 27, 1996
The Conejo-Westlake Shrine Club is offering an evening presentation March 18 on medical services available for children at the Shriners Hospital in Los Angeles.
March 11, 1998
A Northern California hospital that is treating critically burned victims of a deadly day-care fire in Mexico received a fourth patient Tuesday, with more expected.
June 10, 2009