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Shriners International has operated its headquarters for more than 40 years from its Rocky Point office at 2900 N. Rocky Point Drive in Tampa.<\/p>\nShriners International has kept its headquarters in Tampa for more than 40 years, operating out of its Rocky Point office at 2900 N. Rocky Point Drive. <\/p>\n
From that building, the organization oversees a national pediatric health system that treats about 200,000 children a year, along with the fraternal organization that helped build it.<\/p>\n
Mel Bower, Shriners International\u2019s chief marketing and communications officer, said the headquarters houses two connected operations: the Shriners fraternity and Shriners Children\u2019s, the pediatric specialty health system founded in 1922. <\/p>\n
While the fraternity remains part of the organization\u2019s identity, most of the work coordinated through Tampa supports the health system.<\/p>\n
Shriners Children\u2019s operates 20 brick-and-mortar facilities across North America. The network includes 18 locations in the United States, including Hawaii, plus sites in Montreal and Mexico City. <\/p>\n
Patients travel in from every U.S. state, and the system also extends care through global outreach, including work in countries such as the Philippines and Cyprus.<\/p>\n
Shriners International has operated its headquarters for more than 40 years from its Rocky Point office at 2900 N. Rocky Point Drive in Tampa.<\/p>\n
Two organizations, one Tampa headquarters<\/p>\n
Shriners International\u2019s Tampa headquarters houses both the fraternity and the health system. The fraternity, founded in 1872, is the organization many people recognize from parades and community events. <\/p>\n
Shriners Children\u2019s came 50 years later, created as the fraternity\u2019s philanthropy.<\/p>\n
Bower said that structure still shapes how the organization operates today. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Shriners are still on our board,\u201d she said. \u201cThe chairman of our board of directors, every member of our board of directors, we\u2019re all Shriners.\u201d<\/p>\n
A pediatric system built around four specialties<\/p>\n
Shriners Children\u2019s focuses on four service lines: orthopedics, pediatric burns, spinal cord injury and cleft lip and palate. The system does not operate as a full-service children\u2019s hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are only working in those specific service lines,\u201d Bower said.<\/p>\n
READ: TAMPA BAY REAL ESTATE NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n Shriners Children\u2019s medical group includes more than 300 providers. Bower said the system handles cases ranging from routine to rare across its specialty areas, including common orthopedic conditions that require long-term care.<\/p>\n Treating the child for the life of the child<\/p>\n Shriners Children\u2019s began during the polio epidemic, when children often received care in adult hospitals. <\/p>\n Bower said the founders saw quickly that pediatric patients needed different treatment plans because their bodies were still growing.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was really the core impetus behind founding Shriners Children\u2019s,\u201d she said. \u201cThe idea that children do have unique treatments.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Katrina Kenny, an occupational therapist at Shriners Children\u2019s, works with a young patient during a therapy session.<\/p>\n