Shriners Hospitals for Children

Shriners Hospitals for Children are a chain of twenty-two not-for-profit hospitals around the United States that specialize in treating children that are under eighteen years of age. They are operated and owned by the Shriners International group which is actually headquartered here in Tampa. I really resonate with this organization because it is treating people who cannot care for themselves--children. They are not the typical hospital that only cares about profit margins and overall gross income; they care about people. They care about children. They offer all kinds of health care to children in many areas including, but not limited to, neuromusculoskeletal conditions, burn injuries, etc. I have never been able to stand the idea of children who are in pain that have no way of getting the pain or illness to subside because of inability to pay the costs of the hospital bill. In many ways, the Shriners Hospital system have become, in my mind, one of the greatest philanthropic groups of our time. Many of the things that I also like about working for the Shriners Hospital is that they are a great company to work for because of their benefits and working environments. They offer insurance plans such as life insurance and medical insurance coverage. They also offer a great retirement plan that can be adapted to each individual salaried employee. The most appealing characteristic about the possibility of working for a group such as the Shriners Hospitals for Children is that it provides a challenging work environment that never ceases to push its employees for the best the can give and that is something that I am greatly interested in.