Since 1982, Shepherd Center has been designated as a Model System of Care for spinal cord injury by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). The hospital is one of only 14 Model Systems in the country.
Since 1990, Shepherd Center’s Model System grant has funded a line of research on quality of life, adjustment to injury, secondary complications and community reintegration issues. Studies have focused on improving patient outcomes, particularly for those patients who have been identified as being at-risk because of health, behavior or family issues.
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