<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3e906cda-0cd6-4e00-9cc1-c9dbb15849ca/20798BA3-6326-435B-A6E9-FE8534C7BA61/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.woai.com/content/health/story/Fate-of-6-hospitals-on-agenda-for-Shriners/M-Kb5NMq9EabCKqiafsGaA.cspx" href="http://www.woai.com/content/health/story/Fate-of-6-hospitals-on-agenda-for-Shriners/M-Kb5NMq9EabCKqiafsGaA.cspx" style="font-size: 11px;">www.woai.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.woai.com/content/health/story/Fate-of-6-hospitals-on-agenda-for-Shriners/M-Kb5NMq9EabCKqiafsGaA.cspx">Stagnating donations, increasing costs, shriveling endowments and helping children will be on the minds of Shriners meeting in San Antonio as they consider the future of six hospitals around the nation. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.woai.com/content/health/story/Fate-of-6-hospitals-on-agenda-for-Shriners/M-Kb5NMq9EabCKqiafsGaA.cspx"><DIV> The 135th Imperial Council Session began Sunday. On the agenda is consideration of a resolution to close the Shriners Hospital for Children in Galveston as well as hospitals in Shreveport, La., Spokane, Wash., Greenville, S.C., Erie, Pa. and Springfield, Mass. A decision is expected to be announced Thursday. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.woai.com/content/health/story/Fate-of-6-hospitals-on-agenda-for-Shriners/M-Kb5NMq9EabCKqiafsGaA.cspx"><DIV> Free hospital care has been offered since the first Shriners hospital opened 87 years ago. Shriners say their endowment has fallen below $5 billion. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.woai.com/content/health/story/Fate-of-6-hospitals-on-agenda-for-Shriners/M-Kb5NMq9EabCKqiafsGaA.cspx">Bob Jett, the director general of the session, tells the San Antonio Express-News that the Shriners need to recognize and deal with the situation. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/20798BA3-6326-435B-A6E9-FE8534C7BA61/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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