"On Second Thought" host Virginia Prescott speaks with Alana Shepherd and James Shepherd Jr. What began as a six-bed unit with a long waiting list now treats nearly 1,000 patients each year. Shepherd Center is a private, not-for-profit hospital devoted to the medical care and rehabilitation of people with spinal cord injury and disease, acquired. David Apple founded Shepherd Center in Atlanta. After two years of intensive rehabilitation, James his parents, Alana and Harold and Dr. Teams of doctors in Brazil and the United States said he would never walk again. There, in the waves off Rio’s famous beaches, Shepherd suffered a near-fatal accident. 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, stroke, multiple sclerosis, spine and chronic pain, and other neuromuscular conditions. He then backpacked through Europe and Africa before heading to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. 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. graduated from the University of Georgia.
In 1973, Atlanta native James Shepherd Jr. (left), his father, Harold, and his mother, Alana, co-founded Shepherd Center in 1975 along with Dr.