The National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) is a Department of Defense organization working to advance the clinical care, diagnosis, research and education of military service members with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and psychological health (PH) conditions.
While its sister organization, the Center for the Intrepid, treats amputee and/or burned service members, the NICoE provides diagnostic evaluations and treatment of complex TBI and PH conditions to promote physical, psychological and spiritual healing.
[1] The primary patient population of the NICoE is active duty service members with TBI and PH conditions who are not responding to conventional therapy.
After being referred by their military health care provider and accepted into the treatment program, the service member goes to the NICoE for two to three weeks, where they will stay in a NICoE-dedicated Fisher House on the Bethesda campus.
[2][3][4] Built by the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund[5] using $65 million in private donations, it was transferred to the Department of Defense on June 24, 2010.