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New Clinic at JBLM Will Focus On Tramatic Brain Injury

The new $11 million Intrepid Spirit Center is being privately funded through the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund.

The New York based nonprofit is funding nine similar facilities at at military bases around the country including Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and Fort Hood, Texas.

The center will focus intensive cutting edge treatment. There have been 333,169 traumatic brain injuries diagnosed among service members of the Armed Forces since the Pentagon began tracking the injury in 2000.