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Hospital
expansion on the campus took a national turn in the mid-1960s when the Shriners
of North America chose UTMB as the location for the first of three Shriners
Burns Institutes to be built in the United States and dedicated to the treatment
of children’s burns. The selection of Galveston as the site for this highly
innovative facility was part of the widespread recognition afforded UTMB as a
result of its successful treatment of thousands of burn patients injured in the
1947 explosion of the freighter SS Grandcamp in Texas City. Assisted by a
sizable gift from The Sealy & Smith Foundation, the Shriners opened their
first facility on the UTMB campus in March 1966, and have since treated burned
children from all over the world. Replaced in 1992 by the new and larger facility
located on Market Street , 610 Texas Avenue, the former home of the Shriners
Burns Institute, today houses a variety of university offices.
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