The Spaulding New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center (SNERSCIC) is committed to promoting quality of life for individuals with spinal cord injury throughout their lives, through exemplary standards of care and rehabilitation advanced through research, education, advocacy, and ongoing support.

We are pleased to announce the formation of the The Spaulding New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center (SNERSCIC), a merger between the Spaulding-Harvard Spinal Cord Injury Model System and the New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center Model System.
SNERSCIC has a long and distinguished history in working with the SCI community across New England.
Our mission is to promote quality of life for individuals with SCI throughout their lives, through exemplary standards of care and rehabilitation advanced through research, education, advocacy, and ongoing support.
Our purpose is to:
- Research many different aspects of SCI through onsite and collaborative studies and data collection.
- Inform people with SCI, their families, the general public and medical professionals about SCI – including rehabilitation, the latest resources, adaptive technology, and research.
- Provide services for people with SCI during their initial hospitalization and after discharge from a SNERSCIC site.
- Advocate and support individuals with disabilities to live as fully as possible as active members of their communities
- Provide individuals with SCI the opportunity to be involved in research, whenever appropriate.
In Massachusetts:
- Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
- Harvard Medical School
- MGH Institute for Health Professions (MGH IHP)
In Connecticut:
SNERSCIC is funded by grant # 90S1503 from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research as one of 14 SCI Model Systems in the United States, working together to optimize clinical care, research, education, and services related to the impact of SCI on individuals and their communities.
The Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems (SCIMS) are funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). The Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems are called “model systems” because they are national leaders in SCI-related care and research.
Currently, there are 14 SCIMS centers across the United States; each center provides the highest level of comprehensive and multidisciplinary care from point of injury through rehabilitation and full community re-entry. In addition to these 14 centers, the Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Data Center directs the collection, management, and analysis of a longitudinal national SCI database.

Southern California Spinal Cord Injury Model System
Los Amigos Rehabilitation and Education Institute, Downey, CA
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Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System (MRSCIS)
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Spaulding New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center
Gaylord Hospital, Wallingford, CT
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA

Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System
Kessler Medical Rehabilitation
Research and Education Corporation (KMRREC), West Orange, NJ

Ohio Regional Spinal Cord Injury Model System
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
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Northeast Ohio Regional Spinal Cord Injury System
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Delaware Valley
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Visit SiteMeet the amazing people from the SCI Community in MA and CT who help guide SNERSCIC in everything we do. They are people living with SCI, family members, veterans, consumer advocates, rehab clinicians, researchers, government leaders…as well as poets, tutors, wheelchair racers, U.S. Sailing Team members, peer mentors…and so much more!