Lexington’s Shriners Children’s Hospital will celebrate its 100th anniversary on November1, marking a century of providing pediatric care to patients.
The hospital relies exclusively on benefactors to carry out its mission. This funding model eliminates waiting periods for insurance company approvals or denials, allowing doctors and nurses to execute treatments based solely on the best interest of the pediatric patient.
“We provide all of our care regardless of a family’s ability to pay. So, in the most basic sense, what does that mean? It means it allows our doctors to practice medicine, in the way it was meant to be practiced,” Mike Caldwell said…