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Shriners, MUSC open doors on pediatric burn clinic in Charleston, the 5th in the country 31%
By Tom Corwin19%
8/4/2026, 12:00:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Optimism Bias, and Hasty Generalization, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 24.4% saturation with 135 hits. Analysis detected 870 faulty-reasoning hits from 554 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 34% and a BS Rank of 31% (19,783 of 28,460 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 69.50% of the article peer group.
CHARLESTON — They came for a ceremony, but it felt more like a family reunion.
Jahzelle Byrd, 2, smiled and held out her arms as Tiffany Smith approached, the nurse and pediatric burn coordinator scooping her up.
Then she was carried around on the hip of Alli Burns, a child life specialist, while the bubbly girl accepted hugs from other staff members.
Jahzelle and her parents were on the downtown Charleston medical campus for the opening of the outpatient pediatric burn clinic, a partnership between the Medical University of South Carolina and Shriners Children’s burn services, where Jahzelle is a patient.
The new unit is the the fifth American Burn Association-verified pediatric unit for Shriners in the U.S., joining ones in Boston, Dayton, Ohio; Galveston, Texas; and Sacramento, Calif.
It was a dream for the past decade of Dr.
Leslie Stewart, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Shriners Children’s and a graduate of both the College of Charleston and MUSC College of Medicine.
A retired general, vascular and trauma surgeon who practiced, among other places, at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence, Stewart choked up as he talked about the partnership that led to a new clinic for patients and families on a long road of recovery.
“But if that day comes, they deserve to know that extraordinary pediatric burn specialists are here, locally, in their community, in their state, ready to care for their child, not only in the critical moments after an injury, but more importantly throughout the lifelong journey of healing that follows,” he added.
“Even after they go home, we see these patients for years,” said Dr.
Rohit Mittal, the pediatric burn medical director and Shriners Children’s endowed professor in pediatric burn care at MUSC.
Their bodies grow but their scars don’t keep pace so “they have unique functional and reconstructive challenges,” Mittal said, and more work is needed to help them.
He treated a girl at age 12 who was burned over a third of her body.
That same girl now runs marathons and is thriving, Mittal said, and he recently wrote her a letter of recommendation for college.
Closer to home, Jahzelle and her family in Columbia spent a month at MUSC after she was burned at age 1 when she pulled boiling water off the stove onto herself.
The white patch of scars cover the right side of her chest, her right leg and her left foot, where she received a skin graft to help her heal.
But there is no lingering sign of the mental trauma that can accompany these injuries as she cheerfully greeted everyone.
“She won’t remember the pain, none of that,” said her father, Ladarian Byrd.
But she does remember the people who cared for her.
It’s that way for every patient, said Denny Sansone of Jacksonville, Fla., grandmother to Dominic, 8, who was burned in a fire pit accident and whose family “lived” at the hospital and got to know the staff well.
It is not just the patient, but there is a “family atmosphere” that takes in siblings, parents and the whole family into that care, she said.
“They get to know you as an individual,” Sansone said.
”They get to know your family life.”
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