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Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital

HEALTH IS TOP PRIORITY

in Georgetown County

eorgetown County’s healthcare care centers and health service offices Tidelands Health
services have expanded with cutting-edge medical equipment, With three hospitals and more than 50
G exponentially as the area’s and experienced, compassionate outpatient locations that stretch from Andrews
population has grown and advancing physicians. Treating everything from the to North Myrtle Beach, Tidelands Health is
technology has opened more common cold to life-threatening the largest healthcare provider in Georgetown,
opportunities for various treatment ailments, our medical specialists are Horry and Williamsburg counties. Every day,
alternatives. Patients are well cared for available for whatever emergency you more than 2,000 employee and physician
by outstanding hospitals, immediate may have. partners work side by side with patients to
transform the health of our region and to help
fulfill the health system’s mission: We help
people live better lives through better health.
A not-for-profit organization governed
by a volunteer board of trustees, the health
system is among the largest employers in
Georgetown County and contributes more
than $500 million annually to the region’s
economy, according to a study by Coastal
Carolina University.
Tidelands Georgetown Memorial
Hospital, where Tidelands Health began
nearly 70 years ago, is an accredited chest
pain center with a state-of-the-art cardiac
catheterization lab. A new surgery pavilion that

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