Company Profile
Palmetto Health
Company Overview
Welcome to Palmetto Health. We’re on a journey to transform the health care experience for you and your family.
Whether we’re providing emergency care, welcoming a baby into the world or mending a heart, our team is dedicated to working together to fulfill our Vision: To be remembered by each patient as providing the care and compassion we want for our families and ourselves.
When you’re here, you’ll remember how a simple touch eased your pain or how a nurse’s warm smile put your family at ease. Every time you visit Palmetto Health – in the hospital, at a physician’s office or for screening or diagnostic services – you’ll receive care to be remembered.
Over 11,000 team members, physicians and volunteers are here to care for you throughout our Palmetto Health hospital system, which includes:
•Palmetto Health Baptist (413 beds)
•Palmetto Health Baptist Parkridge (76 beds)
•Palmetto Health Children's Hospital (163 beds at Palmetto Health Richland)
•Palmetto Health Heart Hospital (124 beds at Palmetto Health Richland)
•Palmetto Health Richland (649 beds)
Committed to patient satisfaction.
Treating our neighbors with exceptional care is one reason our locally owned, not-for-profit system is the largest, most comprehensive health care resource in the Midlands region. The care you receive at Palmetto Health is delivered by a team that cares about providing high levels of patient satisfaction.
How many patients do we care for?
Each year we:
•provide care for nearly a half million patients
•welcome more than 5,500 babies into the world
•treat more than 80,000 pediatric patients and 3,000 cancer patients
•accommodate more than 150,000 Emergency Department visits
•perform more than 40,000 mammograms
•make more than 40,500 home care visits
The largest health care system in the South Carolina Midlands region.
In addition to our five acute care hospitals, we have an expansive physician practice network, dozens of affiliated clinics and specialty care practices and a non-profit foundation.
As a teaching hospital, we train the next generation of physicians through our 22 residency and fellowship programs affiliated with the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. And through the Palmetto Health Quality Collaborative, more than 700 member physicians come together to ensure patients receive the highest quality, coordinated and proactive care – learn more at thephqc.org.
Our areas of specialty include:
•Bariatric surgery
•Behavioral care
•Breast care
•Cancer care
•Emergency/Level I Trauma care
•Geriatrics
•Heart and vascular care
•Musculoskeletal
•Neurosciences/Stroke
•Obstetrics, including high-risk pregnancy and genetic counseling
•Orthopedics
•Neonatal, including the area’s only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Units
•Pediatrics
•Surgery
•Women’s care
Our Service Areas Include:
Counties of Anderson, Calhoun, Clarendon, Fairfield, Greenville, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, Newberry, Oconee, Orangeburg, Pickens, Richland, Spartanburg and Sumter.