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• Tidelands HealthPoint Center for our local immediate care centers can meet the
Health and Fitness, staffed by trained needs of individuals and families on the go.
exercise physiologists, the region’s only These centers serve as your personal healthcare
medical fitness center. concierge, treating your aches and pains,
• Tidelands Community Care
coughs and colds, even setting broken bones or HEAL THCARE
Network, a regional collaborative
stitching wounds, to get you back to health in
of faith communities, human service
record time.
providers, health educators, state
Georgetown County healthcare providers
agencies, and primary care and specialty
care providers dedicated to increasing serve all residents, with all types of healthcare
access to healthcare and other essential need. For example, Smith Medical Clinic
services for the medically underserved provides free medical care to residents
and uninsured in our community. of Georgetown County who do not have

Tidelands Waccamaw was the first hospital in South Carolina South Carolina Department of Health
to earn the prestigious Baby Friendly designation. and Environmental Control’s PeeDee PH
Region provides public health services in
Georgetown, Horry, and Williamsburg as
well as nine other counties in the state. The
For more information about Tidelands insurance and cannot afford to pay for medical Georgetown County Health Department
Health services and physicians, visit care. Medical services include primary care provides preventive health services such as
tidelandshealth.org, or call 1-866-TIDELANDS services, diabetes education, onsite pharmacy, immunizations, family planning, health
seven days a week, 24 hours a day. internal medicine, gynecology, cardiology care, education, restaurant sanitation, early
While Georgetown County’s hospitals and mental health counseling, gastroenterology and detection of health problems that may affect
extended services are of the highest quality, neurology services, as well as physical therapy, communities, disease surveillance to identify
often the need does not require an ER visit vision examinations and screening, nutrition communicable illnesses, and vital statistics
or admittance into the hospital. That’s where and weight management education. such as birth and death certificates.

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