Palmetto Health
Palmetto Health is the largest and most comprehensive integrated health care system in the South Carolina Midlands region. More than 15,000 team members, physicians and volunteers are dedicated to working together to fulfill Palmetto Health’s Vision: To be remembered by each patient as providing the care and compassion we want for our families and ourselves.
Our locally owned, not-for-profit system includes six Joint Commission-accredited acute-care hospitals with 1,439 patient beds – Palmetto Health Baptist, Palmetto Health Baptist Parkridge, Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital, Palmetto Health Heart Hospital, Palmetto Health Richland and Palmetto Health Tuomey. In the South Carolina upstate region, Palmetto Health also co-owns Baptist Easley Hospital with Greenville Health System.
Palmetto Health is supported by a network of physicians and advanced practice providers in the Palmetto Health-USC Medical Group and the Palmetto Health Quality Collaborative, as well as two 501(c)(3) foundations. Palmetto Health trains the next generation of physicians through its 24 residency and fellowship programs affiliated with the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.
Areas of specialty at Palmetto Health include:
- Bariatric surgery
- Behavioral care
- Breast care
- Cancer care
- Geriatrics
- Heart and vascular care (including the Advanced Heart Health Center and the Midlands' only LVAD program)
- Musculoskeletal
- Neuroscience
- Obstetrics (including high-risk pregnancy and genetic counseling, and the area's only two Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Units)
- Orthopedics
- Pediatrics
- Surgery (including the Midlands' region’s first da Vinci® robotic surgical systems)
- Trauma care (region’s only Level I trauma center and the first Level 2 pediatric trauma center)
- Women’s care
Hospitals
Palmetto Health owns five hospitals in Columbia, Easley, Irmo and Sumter, South Carolina. It also includes several specialty hospitals.
- Palmetto Health Richland (located north of Downtown Columbia)
- Palmetto Health Baptist (Located at the Intersection of Taylor and Marion Streets in Downtown Columbia)
- Palmetto Health Baptist Easley (Located in Easley)
- Palmetto Health Baptist Parkridge (Located in Irmo)
- Palmetto Health Tuomey (Located in Sumter)
Specialty Hospitals
The Specialty Hospitals operated by Palmetto Health include:
- Palmetto Health Children's Hospital (Children's Hospital located on Richland Campus)
- Palmetto Health Heart Hospital (Cardiac-Care Facility located on Richland Campus)
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