TIRR Foundation

d Research (TIRR). The hospitals extensive knowledge in the treatment for polio patients was the foundation for their transition to rehabilitative medicine, and specialty care for patients who had sustained catastrophic injuries involving neurological damage. TIRR Foundation's fundraising efforts ensured the hospital had the highly specialized programs and equipment, and the financial resources needed to support the complex medical needs unique to this special population of patients. TIRR Foundation's history is embedded with success in improving the medical care of neurologically injured patients, enhancing the quality of their lives and leading the scientific search for improved treatments and cures. In 2006, the relationship of the foundation and the hospital assumed a new and exciting course. The patient care operations of TIRR and Memorial Health Care Systems merged uniting their extensive experience and resources to further enhance patient care. As an independent foundation, TIRR Foundation continued its impressive course towards improving the lives of those with physical disabilities and expediting the search for improved treatments and cures for spinal cord injuries, brain injuries and stroke. Today, TIRR Foundation impacts the lives of those with physical disabilities through a number of initiatives and projects. TIRR Foundation founded, directs and funds Mission Connect, a collaborative research project focused on the discovery of treatments and cures for central nervous system damage caused by brain injuries and stroke, and paralysis caused by spinal cord injuries. The foundation continues to support summer camps and sports teams for wheel chair dependant children. The foundation's early dedication to improving patient care continues as does the goal to ensure neurologically injured patients receive the highest level of care and greatest opportunity for recovery.