The Buckhead Rotary Club has donated $74,000 to help purchase state-of-the-art equipment for The Shepherd Center.
Through a partnership with Rotary International and its sister club from Suceava Romania, money was raised to buy additional Hercules Patient Repositioners – a device that helps nurses move and shift patients in their beds.
Rotary Club President Denise Starling said The Shepherd Center—the world-renowned nonprofit rehabilitation center—is the club’s signature project for 2025. The center identified an immediate need for the Hercules devices to aid patients and staff.
Members of the Suceava Rotary Club toured The Shepherd Center last month, and Starling said the club wants to bring a similar style rehabilitation hospital to Romania.
Starling said the Buckhead Rotary Club is also hosting outdoor dinners and movie nights this year for Shepherd patients and staff to aid in recreational therapy efforts.
The process to get the donation for The Shepherd Center took nearly a year, Starling said.
“This has been in process since last July,” she noted. There’s an application process and a lot of competition to get considered by Rotary International. It’s taken us a while to get here.”
