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The Shriners Hospitals for Children® Erie Ambulatory Surgery Center and Erie Outpatient Specialty Care Center provides comprehensive outpatient orthopaedic care to children regardless of their family’s ability to pay. These services include physician care through our outpatient clinic, ambulatory surgery, outpatient rehabilitation (physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy), movement analysis evaluations, child life services, dietary/nutritional counseling, and radiology testing.
Shriners Hospitals for Children — Erie uses an interdisciplinary approach in patient treatment programs to ensure comprehensive care for each child. The staff includes pediatric orthopaedic surgeons, pediatricians, pediatric anesthesiologists as well as other medical specialists.
The Erie Shriners Medical Center is a regional leader in orthopaedics and is equipped and staffed to provide care for numerous pediatric orthopaedic problems. Additions and expansions to the facility have enhanced the overall level of medical care available to patients.
Some of the orthopaedic conditions most commonly treated include:
• Fractures
• Sports injuries
• Orthopaedic issues related to cerebral palsy
• Hand deformities
• Hip disorders
• Limb deficiencies
• Leg length discrepancies
• Metabolic bone disease
• Neuromuscular disorders
• Scoliosis
• Skeletal growth abnormalities
• Spina bifida/myelodysplasia
• Clubfoot and congenital dislocated hips
Provide the highest quality care to children with neuromusculoskeletal conditions, burn injuries and certain other special health care needs within a compassionate, family-centered and collaborative care environment.
Provide for the education of physicians and other health care professionals.
Conduct research to discover new knowledge that improves the quality of care and quality of life of children and families.
This mission is carried out without regard to race, color, creek, sex or sect, disability, national origin or ability of a patient or family to pay.
Orthopaedic medical care for children from birth to age 18.
