Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Editorial: Shriners deserves a stronger spotlight

  June 29, 2010 in Opinion on Page A9 The national Shriners organization has been forced to compromise its mission of no-cost health care for children with special orthopedic needs, but it is a change that will keep the …

• Shriners Hospital to cut nine workers

  August 5, 2009 in Business, City Nine workers at Spokane’s Shriners Hospital for Children will lose their jobs and 13 others will see their wages reduced, the hospital announced today. 1

• Shriners to bill insurers for care

  July 10, 2009 in City on Page A5 The Shriners intend to collect money from insurers and taxpayer-subsidized health programs for the first time, a change that should prevent the closure of its Spokane hospital and five others …

• Shriners avoids closure, for now

  July 7, 2009 in City on Page A1 The Shriners Hospital for Children in Spokane received a reprieve as delegates to the charitable organization’s annual meeting tabled a vote to close six of its 22 hospitals. Dozens of …

• Deficits may force Shriners to close facility

  March 31, 2009 in City on Page A1 Parents, former patients and the medical community reeled from Monday’s news that Shriners International may close its children’s hospital in Spokane. The hospital is regarded by many as a city … 5

• Shriners Hospital in Spokane may close

  March 30, 2009 in City Parents, former patients and the medical community reeled from Monday’s news that the Shriners may close its children’s hospital in Spokane. 3

• Children’s hospital on the forefront

  March 16, 2009 in City on Page A1 As Sam Barker walks in a brisk figure-eight pattern, his parents can only shake their heads and marvel. The 14-year-old from Kellogg was born with cerebral palsy, and he has …