AnnualReport2021

approach to care that would extend to our orthopaedic care as well, since a scar, no matter how small, or the cause, can have a psychological impact. In 2020, we moved our Cincinnati burn hospital to Dayton Children’s Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. Collaborating with new partners always provides opportunities for ideas and growth. The new location will allow Shriners Hospitals for Children to maintain a southwest Ohio presence with a surgical facility designed to meet and exceed today’s medical standards, while being good stewards of our endowment. The move will allow us to continue to care for children, regardless of their family’s ability to pay, for decades to come.

our patients up to age 21, and helping address physical issues such as growth-induced scar contracture bands and psychosocial issues. It is wonderful to watch our patients grow into adulthood, looking forward to their futures. Shriners Hospitals for Children continues to advance wound care and scar management at our locations that provide care for burn injuries. We also continue to address and improve our approaches to our burn patients’ needs as they grow and encounter concerns with self-image and peer acceptance. Our staff is working to gain further understanding of the psychosocial aspects of burn injuries in order to incorporate a system-wide

surgical organization. Dr. Farmer is an internationally renowned pediatric surgeon – the world’s first female fetal surgeon – known for her expertise in complex intestinal, rectal, chest and neck disorders. Dr. Farmer was inducted into the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2010, becoming the second American woman surgeon to receive this honor. In 2011, Dr. Farmer received one of the highest honors in medicine when she was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

In 2018, she was awarded a nearly $6 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Shriners Hospitals for Children to study surgical and stem cell treatments for spina bifida. The grant allowed her team to perform final preparations and testing to justify the treatment of babies diagnosed with spina bifida with a combination of fetal surgery and stem cell therapy. Her team received FDA approval for clinical trials to begin this year. She is a pioneer in the field of finding ways to repair damage to the fetal spinal cord prior to birth. CONTINUING TO ADVANCE BURN CARE Shriners Hospitals for Children’s approach to burn care is multidisciplinary and family-centered for both acute and reconstructive burns. We are proud to be able to provide continuity of care – following

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