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Summerville Medical Center

Greater Summerville Medical Community Focuses on Wellness
H ome to award-winning hospital systems, helping Summerville Medical Center bring high quality, and include a telestroke program to ensure timely

This type of community support has been key in
care when it matters most. The hospital will expand
many primary care and specialty medical
offices, and expert medical staff around
and surrounding communities since 1993. Summerville
the clock, Summerville residents know their health is in expert care close to home for residents in Summerville to 124 beds from 94 beds following the completion of
a $53 million women’s services and surgical services
good hands. Medical Center provides a wide variety of acute-care expansion in 2019.
It is this level of assurance that inspires local services, especially for women and children. Adult Comprehensive medical services are offered at
residents, such as Shirley Schultz and Madison Pittman, and pediatric emergency services are available 24/7 Summerville, including an inpatient pediatric unit and
to give their time and talents to making the local pediatric intensive care unit. Summerville Medical
Summerville Medical Center into a place that not only Center’s popular women’s and children’s services
restores the body, but also encourages and restores Rated the second healthiest program has recently grown to include maternal
the mind and spirit, especially among patients in the fetal medicine services for women with high risk
Pediatric Program. county in South Carolina, it pregnancies. The surgical services department offers
Schultz, a retired librarian, shares her love for comes as no surprise that a variety of specialty procedures including bariatric
books with Summerville Medical Center Pediatric surgery, reflux surgery, and robotic surgery, as well as
Program patients by reading to them twice a week. The health and wellness are top orthopedic services including total joint replacement
characters in her stories entertain not only the patients, surgery. Outpatient services include cardiac
but also the families of the children, who sometimes priorities in Summerville and rehabilitation for those recovering from heart attack
need an escape just as much as the child. Dorchester County. and stroke and physical therapy services.
Madison Pittman, a recent high school graduate, Summerville Medical Center has been recognized
fell in love with the medical field after spending time Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps as a Joint Commission “Top hospital for quality
as a Junior Volunteer in the surgery department of performance” the last five years. The hospital is an
Summerville Medical Center. Her love for SMC led her accredited Chest Pain Center and Primary Stroke
to host a 5k charity run – 5K 4 Kids – designed to raise Center. Additional certifications include Advanced Heart
money for the Pediatric Program. The event raised Failure, Total Hip and Knee Replacement, Sepsis, and
nearly $3,000. Advanced Inpatient Diabetes.

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