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Members of the Shriners fraternity voted Monday to withdraw a measure that would have closed six of the 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children, representatives of some of the facilities said.

Delegates to the Shriners' annual convention in San Antonio, Texas, also voted to reopen one of the facilities: the Galveston, Texas, hospital that suspended its operations after Hurricane Ike flooded it last year.

However, the more than 1,000 delegates still are determining how to operate all the hospitals in a difficult economy, and they still could decide to close facilities if agreements to cut costs aren't reached by the convention's end Thursday, the hospital representatives said Tuesday. Read full article »

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