Shepherd Center
SCI & brain-injury specialty hospital · Atlanta, GA
⭐ SCI Model SystemSCI specialty hospital
Shepherd Center is a federally designated SCI Model System in Atlanta, Georgia, and one of the specialty rehabilitation hospitals that CMS does not assign a quality score. A national leader in SCI rehabilitation, research, and assistive technology.
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Why there is no 0-100 score here. The SCI.help rehab score is built from CMS Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility quality data. Program-exempt specialty hospitals like this one are not in that dataset, so scoring them against it would be inventing a number. They are included because leaving the country's best-known SCI hospitals out of a rehab finder would be worse. Compare scored facilities on the Georgia state page.
What this hospital is
- Private nonprofit hospital specializing in spinal cord injury and brain injury rehabilitation
- 152 inpatient beds, one of the largest SCI/brain-injury specialty hospitals in the U.S.
- CARF-accredited; ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s best rehabilitation hospitals (No. 18 in 2024–25)
- Federally designated SCI Model System (Southeastern Regional SCI Model System)
Three questions to ask
- "How many spinal cord injury patients are on the unit right now?"
- "Will my insurance cover an out-of-state admission here, and who negotiates that?" Specialty hospitals take patients from all over the country, and the answer is usually yes but needs work. See navigating health insurance.
- "Will I leave with the right wheelchair ordered?"
The full list is in choosing an SCI rehab facility.
Compare with other options
- Every inpatient rehab facility in Georgia that treats SCI
- All federally designated SCI Model System centers
- Search every US rehab facility by score, volume and accreditation
Compiled from public sources including the hospital's own published figures and the SCI Model Systems program. SCI.help has no affiliation with this hospital and receives nothing for listing it.