Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston

The Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston  is one of four Shriners Burns Hospitals and one of 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children in North America. The Boston facility became operational in 1968.  The facility currently has 30 beds, admits over 1,000 children and treats more than 5,000 children through the outpatient clinics on an annual basis. The Shriners Hospital provides acute and reconstructive care to children who have been burned, as well as children with congenital and acquired malformations from throughout the world. Harvard plastic surgery residents rotate through the Shriners Hospital in the PGY 5 year. Residents are exposed to the complex and challenging spectrum of burn reconstruction, as well as pediatric plastic surgery including cleft lip and palate, ear construction, and vascular malformations. Residents often elect to participate in the operative management of acute burn injuries, as well as the management of special skin disorders including toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN), staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome, and epidermolysis bullosa. The attending physicians at the Boston Shriners Hospital are affiliated with MGH and hold teaching appointments in Harvard Medical School.