Shriners Children’s Shreveport
Shriners Children’s Shreveport provides pediatric specialty care in Shreveport, Louisiana. Its clinical focus includes orthopedics, neuromusculoskeletal conditions, fractures and cleft lip and palate care, supported by rehabilitation and motion-analysis services.
Organization profile
- Organization type
- Hospital / healthcare provider
- Headquarters / base
- Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
- Geographic scope
- Louisiana and surrounding regional communities
- Shriners Hospitals for Children – Shreveport
Medical focus
Activities
Population served
Pediatric specialty care in Shreveport
The facility is located at 3100 Samford Avenue in Shreveport. Its own location page describes care for children from birth through adolescence, with an emphasis on orthopedic and related conditions. The listed specialties include scoliosis, cerebral palsy, sports injuries, fractures and craniofacial care.
Its clinical environment is designed around children and families. Rehabilitation activities and assessment of movement complement specialist evaluation, helping teams consider how a condition affects daily function as well as the underlying diagnosis.
Assessment, rehabilitation and family coordination
A motion analysis center studies movement to inform individualized treatment planning. The Shreveport contact directory also identifies rehabilitation, orthotic and prosthetic services, radiology and care management. Together these functions support assessment, treatment and follow-up within a pediatric specialty setting.
Families can request an appointment through the facility, and healthcare professionals can make referrals. The local treatment page specifies that fracture and orthopedic-injury patients first receive assessment from a pediatrician or urgent-care physician and then enter the Shreveport service through referral.
The first Shriners hospital location
Shriners’ first hospital initiative began in Shreveport in 1922. The system’s historical account records the first patient being seen in September that year while the permanent building was being completed.
The wider organization was long known as Shriners Hospitals for Children and now uses Shriners Children’s as its public name. The Shreveport location is part of that healthcare system; its Louisiana address is distinct from the system’s corporate headquarters in Florida.
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