Shepherd Center has launched Pursuing Possible: The Campaign for Shepherd Center. The $350-million campaign will fund capital and programmatic projects to benefit patients and families experiencing spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, chronic pain, multiple sclerosis and other neurological illnesses and injuries.
Shepherd Center provides care to nearly 900 inpatients and 7,100 outpatients annually through its continuum of care. The organization has limited capacity in inpatient and outpatient programs. An $80-million grant from The Marcus Foundation will enable the center to pursue projects and programs that will increase patient access, including adding 48 beds, enabling the hospital to serve hundreds more patients per year on an inpatient basis. Shepherd Center will also expand its outpatient programs, increasing its capacity to provide access to services, including enhanced technology, to patients and families at the right time and place.
The grant also supports a significant investment in innovation with the launch of the Marcus Center for Advanced Rehabilitation, which will include the addition of a 30,000-square-foot Innovation Institute, as well as a dedicated clinical lab to test new treatment ideas, an accelerator fund to support research and development and the implementation of artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to drive patient outcomes and inform treatment methods for generations to come.
For more information, visit ExpandingShepherd.org.
