Patient Ambassadors Help Break Ground on New Shriners Hospital

$50 million dollar center expected to open two blocks from BJC Hospital in 2 years.

Who says you can never go home? Almost 90 years after Shriners Hospital for Children built their first complex to the Washington University School of Medicine, ground was broken Wednesday for a new replacement hospital on a parking lot at Clayton and Newstead avenues, just two blocks from the original site and in the shadows of BJC Hospital. The new facility will be highly-visible from I-64/40. Patient ambassadors of Shriners Hospitals for Children helped turned the first spades of earth for the $50 million replacement hospital on the campus of Washington University School of Medicine. The patients broke ground on the hospital along with Imperial Potentate of Shriners International, Alan W. Madsen, and local Shriner, Past Imperial …

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Squishy Floor Will be A Joy For Youngsters at the New Shriners Hospital for Children

This $50 million dollar state-of-the-art facility at Washington University changes forever how medical care will be delivered to children.

Moments after the Shriners Hospital for Children announced their historic move back to the medical campus of Washington University in St. Louis, Patch.com caught up with the chief architect and the Shriners medical chief of staff for their quick thoughts. Tom VanLandingham, Christner Architects, building designers. Patch.com: How thrilling is it to be able to work on a project of this magnitude?  Tom VanLandingham: This is an absolutely the most exciting day once the project gets announced. When the community learned what was planned we were very excited, and this is great work to be able to do. Patch: How has computer generated architecture made all this possible? TV: It gives us absolutely new capabilities to be able to convey …

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Shriners Hospital Overcomes Setbacks to Start New Building at Wash U

This brand new $47 million facility will be complete in just 20 short months.

Several years ago, when the economy was absolutely tanking, the Shriners Hospital for Children took a terrible financial beating. To be exact, it lost 25 percent of its entire portfolio—a loss in excess of $2 billion. Plans to build on property near the Washington University Medical campus were put on the back burner. The dream was rapidly fading away. The doctors at Shriners Hospital had to make do with an aging building in Frontenac, almost 50 years old.  But in life, what goes around comes around. Announcing to the public  Before a packed audience of Shriners, doctors, medical staff, media, patients and guests, the Shriners local and national announced plans to build a $47 million replacement hospital at 4400 Clayton Avenue, visible to …

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Shriners Hospital for Children Headed to Medical Center at Washington University

Facilities in Frontenac outgrown after 50 years. Construction begins March 20.

  Information was provided by the communications staff of Shriners Hospital for Children.  National and local officials of Shriners Hospitals for Children Wednesday announced plans to build a $47 million replacement hospital on the campus of Washington University School of Medicine.  Officials will break ground March 20 on the facility, which will replace the current 50-year-old hospital located in Frontenac. This will be the third facility for Shriners Hospitals for Children in St. Louis, having originally opened in 1924. (The original building is still in use today by Washington University and is located at the corner of Euclid and Clayton.) The new facility will be located on 3.75 acres the hospital purchased from Washington University …

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Cards Players Learn Valuable Lessons From Shriners Hospital Children

Players are able to find out what the children do to handle their disabilities.

What a great morning Wednesday was at Shriners Hospitals for Children. St. Louis Cardinals players Skip Schumaker, Mitchell Boggs and Allen Craig visited the patients along with Fredbird. The players’ wives, Lele Boggs and Marie Craig, also joined along for a morning of meeting patients, signing autographs and posing for photos. But that wasn’t all. The patients had a big surprise in store for the Cardinals: a few lessons on what it’s like to have a disability. The  kids put the players through the paces, taking them through activities that demonstrated challenges such as difficulties in walking, using a wheelchair and having one hand. Patient Ambassador Belinda Eckert challenged Allen Craig to pick up coins from the floor while sitting in…

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St. Louis European Auto Club Donates $26,000 to Shriners

Major fundraiser for Shriners Occurs at Plaza Frontenac Each June.

The St. Louis European Auto Show Board of Governors presented a $26,000 donation to Shriners Hospitals for Children – St. Louis. Accepting the donation is John Gloss, Hospital Administrator and Jalen Watson Patient Ambassador. The money was raised through donations, silent auction items, vehicle registrations, and sponsorships during the 2012 European Auto Show held earlier in June at Plaza Frontenac.        

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25th Annual European Auto Show a Benefit for Shriners Hospital for Children

Throngs of enthusiast descend on the parking lot of Plaza Frontenac to ogle foreign cars.

For 25 years now, the European Car show of St. Louis has been staged on the parking outside of Nieman Marcus at Plaza Frontenac as a benefit for Shriners Hospital for Children of St. Louis. The weather was perfect as some 10,000 car aficionados gathered at the Frontenac location to ogle foreign made cars and support such a worthwhile cause. “We have our ambassadors, some of our patients out there shaking cans, collecting cash donations,” said Susan Bland, a spokesperson for the hospital. “We got $700 dollars that way last year, and each year the number gets bigger." Altogether, the car clubs will put some $25,000 to $30,000 in the Shriners bank account. Everything is donated included vendor donations, car registrations, live and silent …

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Mini Circus Stops By Shriners Hospital for Children

A bundle of laughs for children who are not able to leave the hospital.

Performers in the Shriners Circus for Children this weekend came to their hospital earlier this week to entertain those children who cannot leave to watch the show. The performers definitely brightened the lives of so many children who enjoyed every moment of this mini circus. Here's one more look: Not all children are able to attend the circus. So on March 29, the Shriners Circus came to the Children. This is the 70th year of the Shriners Circus in St. Louis and the 8th year it has performed at the Family Arena in St. Charles. Members of the show and cast stopped by Shriners Hospital for Children in Frontenac for their own mini peformance. The elephants couldn't make the scene, but there were plenty of smiles to go around. Perhaps the …

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Lindbergh Links: Shriners Hospital for Children, an Icon on the Boulevard

Shriners first moved to Frontenac in 1963. The hospital serves the orthopedic needs of children throughout the U.S. and the world.

The longest road in the St. Louis area, Lindbergh Boulevard runs roughly 30 miles through north, central and south county, touching nine of our Patch sites. On this anniversary of namesake Charles Lindbergh's death, we wanted to take a look at this road from our nine different perspectives. Each Patch editor has a different take on how Lindbergh touches that community. Drive along with us through our Lindbergh Links — and we hope you'll add your own observations along the way. Shriners Hospital for Children, located at 2001 S. Lindbergh Blvd., has been serving the orthopedic needs of children since locating in Frontenac in 1963. Shriners Hospital in St. Louis is part of a 22-hospital network, each specializing in different aspects of …

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James Baer

6:15 am on Friday, August 26, 2011

Shriners Hospital is a main hub in our community; and in the bigger community at large. The hospital serves the medical needs of children throughout the Middle West. We hope you enjoy our virtual reality tour of Lindbergh Boulevard from end to end.   more ›

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Cardinals Players Brighten Day For Shriners Hospital Children

Skip Schumaker, Kyle and Gabrielle Lohse, Nick and Natalie Punto sign autographs, mug for shots with room full of children.

Skp Schumaker; Kyle and Gabrielle Lohse, and Nick and Natalie Punto spent a portion of their day Thursday visiting with the children at Shriner's Hospital for Children. Fredbird was in full form as he frolicked with the children in the hospital's recreation department. Cardinal players were given a brief tour of the hospital; met some of the staff then proceeded to hand out Build-a-Bear teddy bears, smiles and handshakes with the children and the parents too. It was a win-win for everyone involved. Tammy Robbins, the hospital's communications director will blog the event, and this is a pictorial review with video of the events of the day. Make sure and look for Tammy's Shriners Hospital blog, exclusively on the Ladue-Frontenac Patch.

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