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Program helps train seniors for re-entry into workforce
Seniors who previously might have been left behind by the job market are being provided with new skills to help them find permanent employment through a federal job training program. The Senior Community Service Employment Program is a program through the Department of Labor that helps low-income people ages 55 and older who want to enter or re-enter the […]
DHEC gives green light to 2 Lowcountry medical projects
The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control has approved certificates of need for two new medical facilities in the Lowcountry. Trident Medical Center received the required approval for its 60-bed free-standing behavioral health facility, which it applied for in May. The $34.8 million project will be located near Tri[...]
City opens homeless resource center
The city of Charleston, the Mayors’ Commission on Homelessness and Affordable Housing, and We Are Family have opened the new All of Us Resource Center for homeless individuals at 529 Meeting St. in downtown Charleston. The center provides a place for homeless people in Charleston and those at risk of homelessness to connect with service […]
East Cooper Medical Center performs robot-navigated spine surgery
East Cooper Medical Center has acquired a system to perform spine surgeries via robotic navigation, a machine it says will reduce the amount of radiation exposure and decrease the chance for human error. “Not that there is a lot of human error there, to be honest with you, but it allows you to do that […]
Roper St. Francis founding members investing $50 million into health system
The founding members of Roper St. Francis Healthcare are investing $50 million into the health system to provide Roper St. Francis facilities with improvements and upgrades as preparations continue for Roper St. Francis Berkeley Hospital. “Anytime you’re going to invest $130 million (in a new hospital), it’s he[...]
Trident Medical Center applies for 2 certificates of need
Trident Medical Center has filed two certificates of need with the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control for new health care facilities in North Charleston and on James Island. The North Charleston facility would be a free-standing behavioral health facility offering inpatient and outpatient services near the existing Trident Medical Center campus. The hospital […]
National health program eyeing Charleston
The Blue Zones Project, a national community wellness program, is considering coming to Charleston, it announced Monday to a packed room at The Schoolhouse, an event venue and co-working space in West Ashley. “There’s great need and readiness in Charleston, and motivation to do this level of work,” said Shannon Draayer, implementations manager at Blue […]
Clemson, MUSC unveil operating room prototype
The first use of general anesthesia for surgery occurred in 1846 at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the design of operating rooms has remained relatively unchanged ever since. “Basically, the bed looks exactly the same, except back in the 1800s, it was … a wooden plank, and now it’s a bed with foam on it,&r[...]
New Roper St. Francis hospital on schedule
Roper St. Francis celebrated the topping-out of its Berkeley County hospital in early February, and hospital leadership says construction on the new health care facility is on schedule. “The steel is going up, and we will start moving towards the shelling of the building, and that’s where a lot of the construction of[...]
