Staff members also serve as ambassadors to help patients navigate their journey over a lifetime.
Shepherd’s team of highly specialized, experienced clinicians are dedicated to helping their patients rebuild their lives with hope, independence and dignity, advocating for their full inclusion in all aspects of community life while promoting safety and injury prevention.Ĭlinicians work with each person to create a blueprint for rehabilitation, tapping into state-of-the-art medical care, therapeutic equipment and comprehensive educational services. Patients at Shepherd Center get more than just medical care: They get an experience that brings healing and hope. Patients travel from across the nation – and even the globe – to Shepherd Center for its innovative brand of neurorehabilitation. Providing medical care and rehabilitation for spinal cord injury, acquired brain injury, multiple sclerosis, chronic pain and other neuromuscular problems. In its more than four decades, Shepherd Center has grown from a six-bed rehabilitation unit to a world-renowned, 152-bed hospital that treats more than 900 inpatients, 575 day program patients and more than 7,100 outpatients each year. News & World Report among the top 10 rehabilitation hospitals in the nation. Shepherd Center, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is a private, not-for-profit hospital specializing in medical treatment, research and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, spine and chronic pain, and other neuromuscular conditions.įounded in 1975, Shepherd Center is ranked by U.S.