a:28:{s:9:"weblog_id";s:1:"2";s:8:"entry_id";s:0:"";s:6:"sticky";s:0:"";s:14:"allow_comments";s:1:"n";s:16:"allow_trackbacks";s:1:"n";s:10:"entry_date";s:19:"2008-06-25 05:59 AM";s:15:"expiration_date";s:0:"";s:23:"comment_expiration_date";s:0:"";s:8:"category";a:1:{i:0;s:2:"15";}s:9:"author_id";s:1:"2";s:6:"status";s:4:"open";s:14:"trackback_urls";s:0:"";s:18:"versioning_enabled";s:1:"y";s:5:"title";s:57:"The St. Louis Shriners Hospital is Moving - Into the City";s:9:"url_title";s:54:"the_st_louis_shriners_hospital_is_moving_into_the_city";s:6:"submit";s:6:"Submit";s:10:"field_id_5";s:57:"The St. Louis Shriners Hospital is Moving - Into the City";s:10:"field_ft_5";s:4:"none";s:10:"field_id_9";s:302:"
The St. Louis Shriners Hospital for Children is returning to its roots.
National leaders of the Shriners, in town for a national convention in early
July, will celebrate plans for a new 247,000-square-foot hospital at Clayton
and Newstead Avenues on the Washington University School of Medicine campus";s:10:"field_ft_9";s:4:"none";s:11:"field_id_13";s:1:"9";s:10:"field_id_7";s:48:"Shriners, Washington  University, City, hospital";s:10:"field_ft_7";s:4:"none";s:10:"field_id_8";s:2758:"<p>The St. Louis Shriners Hospital for Children is returning to its roots.<br />National leaders of the Shriners, in town for a national convention in early<br />July, will celebrate plans for a new 247,000-square-foot hospital at Clayton<br />and Newstead Avenues on the Washington University School of Medicine campus<br />with a ceremonial groundbreaking on July 3, 2008. The new facility will be<br />built just two blocks from the site of the original St. Louis Shriners<br />Hospital for Children, which was built at Clayton and Euclid Avenues in<br />1924.<br /><br /><img alt=\"Shiners Hospital location\" height=\"208\" src=\"/images/uploads/features/map.jpg\" width=\"260\" />The new 40-bed facility will feature an expanded research center, a larger<br />outpatient area, a motion analysis lab, four surgical suites, 30 clinic<br />examination rooms, and more space for orthotics and prosthetics. There will<br />be 12 private rooms for children waiting for same-day surgery; 10 beds in a<br />Center for Metabolic Bone Disease and Molecular Research; and six rooms for<br />parents. The research center will take up an entire floor of the six-story<br />structure and include a DNA lab.<br /><br />Construction at the new $170 million hospital actually will begin in early<br />2009 with completion slated for 2011. The project also includes construction<br />of a 260-space parking garage. The hospital and parking garage will rise up<br />on the site of a former Pepsi Bottling Co. plant and parking lot. The new<br />facility will replace the current Shriners Hospital for Children on<br />Lindbergh Boulevard in Frontenac, MO. Tammy Robbins, director of public<br />relations for the St. Louis Shriners hospital, said the hospital moved from<br />its original St. Louis city location to the suburban Frontenac facility in<br />1963. Once the new facility is completed, the Shriners intend to sell the<br />hospital on Lindbergh.<br /><br />\"This is an exciting time for the Shriners Hospitals for Children in St.<br />Louis,\" Ralph Semb, president and chairman of the board of trustees said in<br />a report to the Shriners Fraternity. \"We expect that this new hospital will<br />ultimately set the industry standard for quality and attract the best and<br />brightest physicians and clinical staff in pediatric specialty care,\" he<br />added.<br /><br />Most of the medical staff at the Shriners Hospital for Children are on the<br />faculty at Washington University. Semb said that moving the hospital closer<br />to the university and St. Louis Children\'s Hospital would improve patient<br />care, research, and education.<br /><br />Paric Corp. is the general contractor. Gresham Smith &amp; Partners is the<br />architect.<br /></p>";s:11:"field_id_42";s:28:"/images/uploads/shriners.jpg";s:11:"field_id_43";s:0:"";s:11:"field_ft_43";s:4:"none";s:10:"category_0";s:2:"15";}