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Search Results: MCH Organizations

This list of organizations is drawn from the MCH Organizations Database. Contact information is the most recent known to the MCH Digital Library.


Displaying records 1 through 3 (3 total).

Burn Foundation

Annotation: The Burn Foundation promotes optimal burn care and works to prevent burn injury. It provides financial and program support to four regional burn treatment centers in southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware. The foundation is a depository of national burn data source information and also maintains an extensive database on the injury circumstances and hospital treatment costs to its four member burn centers. The organization publishes a newsletter and sponsors training seminars.

Keywords: Injury prevention, Burns, Financial support, Fires, Information services, Residential injuries, Scalds

Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors

Annotation: The Phoenix Society's mission is to uplift and inspire anyone affected by burns through peer support, collaboration, education and advocacy. The Society provides a quarterly newsletter, Burn Support News, the SOAR Peer Support Program, an annual World Burn Congress, a toll free information and referral line, a list serve, and a Web site.

Keywords: Burns

Shriners Hospital for Children

Annotation: Shriners Hospital for Children operates 19 orthopedic hospitals, one hospital that provides orthopedic, burn and spinal cord injury care to and three burn hospitals serving children under the age of 18 in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. Diagnosis and treatment are offered solely on the basis of medical need, at no charge to the patient's family. The burn hospitals accept children who need immediate care or those needing plastic surgery and rehabilitation (healed burns). Research on the causes of crippling and scarring and on methods of treatment is conducted at all 22 of the Shriners Hospitals. Eligibility for treatment is determined on the basis of applications completed by parents or guardians, the referring physician, and a local Shriner sponsor. Referrals, publications, and reference information are available to the Shriners Hospitals. Some resources are available in Spanish.

Keywords: Burns, Children with special health care needs, Hospitals, Orthopedics

   

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