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Shriners Hospitals for Children

The mission of the Shriners fraternal organization is to do whatever we can to support the 22 hospitals in the Shriners Hospital system. The care is unbelievable. The compassion that is directed to patients and their families is beyond what I have ever seen in any hospital. The Shriners Hospitals for Children treat orthopedic needs, burn injuries, cerebral palsy issues related to orthopedic needs, juvenile arthritis, traumatic spinal cord injuries and more, all at no cost to the patients or families. We started to take third party pay about 2 years ago, but if the family does not have insurance or has insurance that won't address their needs, we still treat the children free of charge. The Shriners Hospitals for Children is the cleanest philanthropy in the world. For every dollar that is donated to the hospital system, 95 cents out of every dollar goes for the care of the children. The other five cents is what is used to manage our main offices in Tampa and provide support for our more than 4000 employees across the US, in Mexico City and in Montreal. In Springfield we serve children from all of the New England States, upper New York State, Santo Domingo, the island of Cyprus and various other countries as well.
I have been am member of our local board since 1986. From 1988 through 1990 I was the owner agent for the construction of our new hospital in Springfield which replace our original Shriners hospital which opened in 1925. I was the chairman of the board from January, 1992 though December, 1998. While I was the chairman two local orthopedic surgeons referred their own children to our hospital for an evaluation and services that were needed. I have seen many children cry hysterically when it was time for them to leave our hospital to go home because of the level of care and interaction they had with all of our staff. Also, while I was the chairman, our hospital was evaluated twice by JCACHO which evaluates all health care facilities in the US. On both occasions we recieved 98 out of a possible 100 points and the two points that were lost each time had nothing to do with the care of children, but rather had to do with things we needed to address in the physical plant.
I am so proud of being a Shriner and even more so of having the level of involvement that I have had at our local hospital and my pride is due to all of the things that I have described here. As Shriners we are making the most important investment in the future that anyone could make--taking care of children and improving the quality of their lives.

This is a great place to work!  The mission of the facility is to treat any child regardless of their ability to pay.  So every child is treated the same, regardless of their insurance status.  The surgeons here take on the most challenging cases and are world renowned for what they do.  The nurses are kind and compassionate and truly believe in family centered care.  Research and academics play a big role in what is done here, as we make sure to stay on the cutting edge of surgery and teaching.  

As a surgeon, I love the fact that I can take care of any child that comes to see me and not have to worry about whether or not this child will be covered by insurance.  There are no arguments with administration about why a surgery is necessary and how this affects the bottom line.  This is so refreshing compared to many facilities I've been at, which often pits patients between their insurance companies and the medical facility when care is needed.  There is also no internal conflict on treating children for surgeons--meaning surgeons will not be "working for free" to treat children who are uninsured.  

The workplace culture is dedicated to treating children with world class care.  All procedures are reviewed by the medical staff so consensus can be achieved before surgeries are performed.  This provides a significant level of comfort and confidence for surgeons prior to procedures occurring.  Multiple research groups are also available within Shriners to pool patient data to provide large, multicenter studies to help determine best treatment for children.  

The hardest part of the job is that there is some degree of bureaucracy within Shriners administration and that the home office in Tampa often micromanages what happens locally.  Tampa will also change their strategic direction depending on who is in charge at the Board of Directors and Board of Trustees level.  This can be frustrating when initiatives are started and then stopped almost with no notice from Tampa.  

The most enjoyable part of the job is that we help children with complex problems, often who have no other access to care.  Salaries are competitive, and benefits are excellent.  

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part of working at Shriners Children’s is the mission-driven impact. Every project we undertake, whether clinical care, quality improvement, or research, directly improves outcomes for children who may not otherwise have access to this level of specialty care. I also value the collaborative environment and the opportunity to build sustainable research infrastructure that supports innovation across multiple sites. It’s meaningful work with measurable impact.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
One of the more challenging aspects of working at Shriners is ensuring that innovative projects and externally sponsored research align with institutional policies and system-wide regulations. Because we operate within a pediatric, nonprofit, and highly regulated environment, there are important policy constraints that require thoughtful navigation. While that can sometimes slow momentum, it ultimately ensures compliance, patient safety, and long-term sustainability

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The culture at Shriners is genuinely friendly and mission-driven. Teams are supportive, approachable, and collaborative. At the same time, many departments operate under significant workload pressure due to staffing limitations, regulatory requirements, and the complexity of pediatric specialty care. While that creates strain, it also fosters resilience, teamwork, and a strong sense of shared responsibility

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day involves balancing research operations, compliance oversight, sponsor communication, and cross-department coordination. I spend time ensuring study timelines stay on track, budgets align with workload, and institutional policies are followed. There’s a strong problem-solving component, especially when managing multi-site trials and regulatory requirements. It’s dynamic and requires constant prioritization.

Staff members are committed to improving the lives of children in Hawaii and the Pacific region, and are specialized in bone, joint, muscle and sports injuries.

The hospital is a state-of-the-art facility that provides Hawaii’s children with the best orthopaedic care, neurodevelopmental care, fracture clinic, surgery, physical therapy, occupational therapy, radiology, orthotics and prosthetics workshop and other ancillary services. The hospital is colorful, kid-friendly and designed to place patients and families at ease with the aloha spirit.

Daily I am responsible for providing assessments, planning, interventions and follow-up for patients and family members. I proactively address potential or actual clinical and/or psychosocial needs identified through screening to ensure level of care and health status transitions are safe, seamless, and coordinated. I collaborate with a multidisciplinary team in regards to discharge planning prior to patient’s arrival and throughout entire hospitalization.  I advocated for patients and families to ensure their needs and desires are addressed in a timely matter.

I enjoy working with patients and families of different backgrounds and cultures and I am rewarded when I see my patients overcome the physical challenges they had when they came to our hospital.

The hardest part of my job is meeting the needs of my patients when there was a financial barrier.  I am always grateful when I was able to help my patient overcome these barriers.

A typical day a work for me is performing my required job duties.  Entering surgical codes in the OR database, checking emails and phone message and returning those messages.  Ensuring medical documents are scanned into our EHR and making sure those documents are in the proper place before discarding them.  Assist where help is needed.  It does not matter if it is within the department or outside the department.  

While working here I have learned of different attitudes and personalities and realize you cannot change that person.  You just have to adjust to the way they act.  Everyone is different.  Don't take it personal.  

I have learned good and bad from management. I feel that their could be some improvement in that area.  Decisions are not always good ones but you have to do the best you can. 

I work with excellent co-workers.  Some do get away with more than others.  I just feel that everyone should be treated the same.  If you are gonna do for one then you have to do for the other. 

The hardest part of the job is trying to make everyone happy.  

The most enjoyable is waking up every morning knowing I have a job. I am grateful for it because jobs are hard to come by.  I just like to learn different opportunities within my professions. Knowing that I can move around and I am not stuck in one specific area. The sky is the limit in healthcare.  I enjoy learning knew things and as much as possible because different tasks allows me to grow even more so that I can move forward to do new and different things.

Overall,Shriners stands out as one of the best hospitals to work for in the country.They provide a much needed service for kids with disabilities and they strive to improve their services in the best way they can to better accommodate the community.Their compassion and integrity show how much they care for those children and their support doesn't go unnoticed.
However,the EVS department management has a lotta flaws.
Management over at Shriners can be pretty intimidating sometimes.They don't always listen to staff's concern.They just turn a blind eye to some important issues and refuse to address them when necessary.
The new EVS manager was pretty egotistic and impervious to work with.Not to mention a slacker and pretty sloppy too.
The facilities director was also rude and cocky most of the times and was easily manipulated by others and would never listen or pay attention to issues that matter.He'd treat others with a contempt.
Many people there wanted to see the manager and the director fired.
It seems that the EVS manager was there only for the sake of his next paycheck.That's all that mattered to him.He was too lazy to help staff on the floors and would come up with every excuse on the book thus refusing to help anybody and just sitting around in his office doing nothing at all.He was completely helpless.Not a good manager at all.Because of him some nice hard working people quit.
And because of silly managers like him the hospital tends to lose some great assets.

A typical day at Shriners Hospital Los Angeles was always new and exciting. You never knew what type of patient you would have. Many times the patients would arrive the night before and have no preoperative work up until the morning of the procedure.  You had to learn about the patient congenital decencies, learn the family and patient’s medical history, consul the parents, and prep the patient for spinal fusion. Once in the operating room, I would follow along with anesthesia the respiratory and metabolic status of the patient to determine the post-surgery care requirements.  After surgery we hoped for a quick, safe and effective extubation. This would be followed by overnight care and observation to assure to assure adequate respiratory efficiency. Once the surgery was over and the night shift began, the respiratory therapist was limited in support. The X-ray department, the Lab, and pharmacy were closed until the next morning 6am.  An unknowledgeable therapist could find themselves in trouble. The nursing staff were generally basic floor care providers with no ICU, OR, or recovery experience.  The hardest part of my job is when a patient would demonstrate distress and I had to educate the on call resident of what measures would best decrease the situation. The most enjoyable part of my job was the need to stay on top of my knowledge in the event a child life depended on my experience .

Working for Shriners, although a short period of time, was an interesting experience as we worked with an external consulting firm to employ Revenue Cycle/Health Information Management/Utilization Review/Quality Improvement  operations.  Working solely on endowment funds, offering specialized care to children around the world, became a challenge without accepting patient insurance.  To that end, Shriner's made a decision to accept health care insurance and started to deploy the appropriate operations and systems to do so. This position was exciting and challenging in that it was a total change to all back office operations.  It was interesting to learn of Shriner's Operations up to this point in time.  The management was interesting as all hospitals were run by members of the Shriner's Organization as well as a team of healthcare administrators.  This was also the point in time when Electronic Health Records were beginning to be mandated by government through incentives and meaningful use of those records was needing to be proven.  Participation in various committees was an excellent learning experience and being able to leverage prior experience into their operations was quite helpful.

It was a great place to work at times stressful, and at times not so busy. There was new management that took over that tried to change the workplace environment. Budgets were cut and monies for projects that needed to be done was not approved or was pushed back. I felt that my experience and expertise in Facilities was not needed at this time so i started to look for a change. 
The hardest part of the job was getting approval to get all the systems that my staff and I were responsible for in regards to upgrades or was not being done in a timely manner. My greatest asset is to get repairs, maintenance, and jobs given to my department done in a timely and safe manner. The most enjoyable part of all my jobs is to see all the systems I am responsible for working properly and having no complaints from Patients, Staff, and Visitors. The hospital has quarterly surveys and exit surveys from staff and visitors and my department always had complimentary survey and comments. A typical day at work would be greeting the staff, checking for any outstanding issues, Distributing work orders, and ensuring all Preventative Maintenance was completed in a timely manner. I would attend inter departmental meetings when work was to be scheduled and would affect others and their departments. 
If there was problems or issues at night and since we did not have 24 hours coverage i would respond to resolve the problem

3 12 hour day shift - mon-tues-wed
Learned a multitude of skills needed to care for critical children - burns and trauma. Management varied as in many places - some supportive some not as much. The culture, if I am understanding correctly, was a bit "clicky" and was difficult to fit in at times. However the OR staff where we spent a lot of time and the Pedi ICU had great mentors and you were expected to work independently on the unit or assist in the OR. Other times in the outpatient clinic. The hardest part of the job was loosing a child and responsibility close to the level of a fellow with minimal orientation. Most enjoyable was watching kids who never thought they would walk again run by your desk to give you a hug and say thanks and goodbye before leaving to board a plane back to the Dominican, Ukraine, Africa and so on. It made me very happy. And I  loved watching the new technologies.
This hospital gave me the skills I unfortunately needed the day of the Boston Marathon Bombing. It was a 3 days straight of working in complete chaos but the docs just kept reminding me if you can do this on kids, you can on adults. They need a "Jill" taking care of them because of your compassion

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