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Show New Hospital Expands Services To Crippled Children in West A new, enlarged hospital for r.li orthopedic crippled children is rabidly rab-idly nearing completion in Suit Lake City, according to Gleed Miller, Mil-ler, a member of the board of the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children. It is anticipated that the hospital will be ready for occupancy 1:1 January, 1951. Mr. Miller pointed out that hundreds of children have been helped in the present 2l)-bed hospital maintained by the Shriners,; but that the new quarters will have over 50 beds and will be able tu care for several times that many children as out-patients. "Facilities of the hospital are available to all crippled cnildi-e.i :;c,o cr.n be helped by orthopedic ta. j, regardless of religion, race or iMlur," Mr. Miller said. "Not one cant of money is accepted for the care of any child." Additions to -the medical and nursing staff are now being made in preparation for the move to the iev hospital in January. It is the latest and most up-to-date hospital built by the Shriners throughout th"! world. Readers who know of a child who ava be helped by orthopedic care :'.ra urged to contact doctors or Shriners, or to write the Shriners' hospital for Crippled Children, Salt L'.il:o City, for full information about the facilities of this hospital. |