AL BAHR SHRINE
A.A.O.N.M.S.
Chartered May 13, 1913
5440 Kearny
Mesa Road
San Diego, California 92111-1303
Phone: (858) 292-0092
1-888-267-4541
Fax: (858) 292-5618
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Welcome to Al Bahr Shrine,
located in San Diego California. Our mission is to combine friendship,
family and fraternity with social activities and to provide support, both
monetarily and by volunteer service to the "Worlds Greatest Philanthropy",
the 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children.
The Shriners Hospitals
for Children, in 2006 has increased its spending for children by $263,000
every 24 hours. The organization will spend $1.97 million dollars
every 24 hours, to continue to give expert medical care
to children. As always, the state-of-the-art specialized orthopaedic,
burn and spinal cord injury care is provided at absolutely no charge to
the patients or their families.
The overall
budget increased
by $96 million, as indicative of both an awareness of the cost of
health
care, and Shriners' continuing concern for children. The 22
Shriners
Hospitals in the U.S., Canada and Mexico have a total budget of $721
million
for 2006. Of that amount, $655 million is designated for the
operating
budget, which includes patient care, teaching, administrative expenses,
depreciation and the daily expenses for all the Shriners Hospitals; $37
million has been earmarked for research. During the nearly 85-
yearshistory of the Shriners Hospitals, it has cost approximately $8.2
billion to operate Shriners Hospitals, and over $1,76 billion has been
spent on construction and renovation.
Another $66 million of
the budget is designated for buildings and equipment expenditures.
The funds for the totally
debt free hospitals are obtained from gifts, bequests, income from the
endowment fund, hospital fund-raising events, and the annual hospital assessment
paid by every Shriner.
Al Bahr's Samaritan Driver's
Club has volunteered to drive patients from the San Diego/Tijuana area
to the Shriners Hospital for Children in Los Angeles on a daily basis leaving
at 6:00 am and returning the outpatient treated children (and guardian)
by 6:00 pm; some making between 39 and 41 trips in 1 year. If you
would like to know more about Shriners Hospitals for Children, please click
on the following links:
Shrine membership is open
to all Masons.
Please check our Menu
for further information and be sure to sign the Al Bahr GUEST
BOOK!
Fraternally yours,
Kenneth
Short
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Al Bahr Shrine - 5440 Kearny Mesa Road - San
Diego, California 92111-1303
Phone: (858) 292-0092, Toll Free: 1-888-267-4541,
Fax: (858) 292-5618
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