Schoen Adams Research Institute’s five founding Discovery Centers are hubs of research excellence and innovation for priority areas in rehabilitation medicine.
Your gifts to these centers fuel the type of scientific collaboration, risk-taking, and creativity needed to make the discoveries that will revolutionize the field of recovery and transform lives.
Spaulding’s Research Catalyst provides the Schoen Adams Research Institute with the flexible resources it needs to drive the science of recovery and empower emerging investigators in rehabilitation medicine.
Your gifts to this fund enable our research team to explore new avenues of discovery, launch innovative pilot studies, and support a robust pipeline of talented scientists who will define the future of rehabilitation care.
Outcomes research seeks to understand the end results of healthcare practices or interventions. By studying healthcare systems in action, we capture a more comprehensive picture of the many factors that play a role over the course of a person’s recovery. Philanthropy to ROCS will help us advance and sustain this work, which will ultimately improve the quality of rehabilitation care.
Visit the Rehabilitation Outcomes Center at Spaulding (ROCS)
“This is the largest financial commitment we have ever made to any organization. It speaks to our confidence in the people we have come to know at Spaulding and the important mission of the organization.”
— Paula Ness Speers
Paula Ness Speers, chair of the Spaulding Board of Trustees, and Mark S. Speers made a lead gift of $5 million to establish the Discovery Center for Spinal Cord Injury Recovery at Schoen Adams Research Institute. The Center that bears their names is dedicated to conducting translational research that maximizes mobility and functional improvements for people living with spinal cord injuries, while aggressively pursuing cures for paralysis.
“Spaulding is the ultimate can-do place, where there is nothing that is impossible. A person’s limits are only the beginning, not the ending. Spaulding scientists spend hours in the laboratories researching answers and never give up.”
— Ellen R. Gordon
Ellen Gordon (center) and her late husband, Melvin, established the Ellen R. and Melvin J. Gordon Center for the Cure and Treatment of Paralysis at Spaulding and Harvard Medical School. This cross-institutional initiative is pushing the boundaries of research in its mission to transform our understanding of paralysis.
Spaulding Rehabilitation is composed of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston, Spaulding Hospital for Continuing Medical Care Cambridge, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Cape Cod, Spaulding Nursing and Therapy Center Brighton, and our affiliated outpatient centers.
