![]() ![]() “Having family members close by to provide support and participate in training during their loved one’s rehabilitation is vital to the recovery of our patients,” Morrison said. Many patients and families in the hospital’s full-day outpatient programs also stay in Shepherd Center housing. ![]() Currently – through the support of generous donors – Shepherd Center provides up to 30 days of housing to families of newly injured rehabilitation inpatients, if both the family and patient live more than 60 miles from the hospital. Shepherd’s plans for the site are still in development, but the additional housing units in the new facility would nearly double the hospital’s current housing program, which includes an 84-unit family residence center adjacent to the hospital, Morrison said. Working with commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield, Shepherd Center leaders negotiated a deal to purchase the property for nearly $20 million. The hospital’s new 2.7-acre property at 1860 Peachtree Road sits near the corner of Peachtree and Collier roads in the Buckhead area of Atlanta – across from a 16-story Piedmont Healthcare facility that is under construction. ![]() More than half of the hospital’s patients come from outside of Georgia to get specialized inpatient and outpatient care at Shepherd Center, which is ranked among the top 10 rehabilitation facilities in the nation by U.S. Shepherd Center is a private, not-for-profit, 152-bed hospital specializing in medical treatment, research and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, spine and chronic pain, and other neuromuscular conditions. “Our goal is to improve access to the nationally ranked, specialized rehabilitation care and support we provide to patients, as well as the services we offer to meet the needs of their families.” “The multi-million-dollar project, which will be several years in the making, is part of Shepherd Center’s Vision 2025 plan to expand to meet the needs of patients and their families from across the nation,” said CEO and President Sarah Morrison, PT, MBA, MHA. The new building would provide additional space for Shepherd’s clinical and/or administrative operations and perhaps some retail space for establishments that could meet the needs of family members. Shepherd Center announced today that it has purchased land just south of the hospital on Peachtree Road in Atlanta and plans to build a facility to expand its housing program for patients’ family members. ![]()
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