ST. LOUIS — For over 90 years, the Shriners Hospital for Children in St. Louis, has been helping children and changing lives, including many hundreds in Kansas.The hospital serves children from birth to 18 by providing medical care for kids with special orthopedic needs.Now the hospital, which serves patients in Kansas and seven other states around Missouri, is preparing for the next phase of service. According to Public Relations Specialist Susan Bland, a former patient at the Shriners Hospital, the hospital broke ground on March 20 on a 90,000 square foot facility to be located near the Washington University School of Medicine, just two blocks from the original Shriners hospital.“The majority of our physicians are faculty with the Washington University School of Medicine,” Bland said. “We are going to continue that partnership with the new facility.”Completion is expected to be in 2015.As medicine has changed, so have the hospital’s needs.“We’re doing more outpatient services these days,” Bland said, “but we still have occasional in-patient surgeries where kids stay overnight.