Greenville Memorial Hospital achieves Magnet status
The ANCC’s Magnet Recognition Program is the highest national honor for nursing excellence and distinguishes organizations that meet rigorous standards for delivery of care.
Spartanburg’s Elite Home Care earns customer satisfaction award
Spartanburg-based Elite Home Care LLC recently announced it has received the 2018 Best of Home Care — Provider of Choice Award from Home Care...
Bon Secours Health System announces intent to merge with Mercy Health
The merger is expected to create the fifth largest Catholic health system in the country.
Assisted living community Inverness at Spartanburg sold for $10 million
A prominent assisted living and memory care community in Spartanburg County has changed hands for $10 million.
California-based LTC Properties Inc. recently announced it acquired...
Telling Cancer to Take a Hike
Innovation milestone is a message of authentic hope for local cancer patients
By Matthew Gevaert, Ph.D., and W. Jeffrey Edenfield, MD
Cancer innovation and hiking the...
The Next Best Thing is Happening Close to Home
In 2016 alone, individual health-care spending grew 4.3 percent nationally, hitting more than $10,000 per person, according to information provided by the Centers for...
GHS partners with KIYATEC to boost effectiveness of cancer treatments
The partnership will provide ovarian cancer patients with access to series of tests that can indicate how their tumors respond to chemotherapy drugs.
Greer Memorial Hospital gifts more than 38,000 diapers to Upstate diaper...
Christmas came a little early on Thursday, Nov. 30, for a nonprofit that seeks to provide Upstate families with diapers.
Greenville Health System’s Greer Memorial...
Anderson-based AnMed Health cuts 159 positions
Anderson-based AnMed Health has laid off 94 employees and eliminated 65 vacant positions.
The cuts include full-time and part-time positions, according to a press release...
Spartanburg physician, CU-ICAR looking into concussion after effects in student drivers
John Lucas, a physician and head of the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System's Sports Medicine Institute, has started a new project with Clemson University's International Center for Automotive Research that will study the driving capabilities of concussed student athletes.
FirstLight Home Care of Greenville expands services across the Upstate
Since opening its first franchise location in 2010, FirstLight Home Care has experienced steady growth and is now operating more than 240 locations in 33 states throughout the U.S.
Lindsey Graham makes health care pitch to business leaders
“I want to take the money we would’ve spent on Obamacare in Washington and send it back home and let us do a better job.”
Diaper Bank of the Carolinas kicks off campaign to collect 1...
The Diaper Bank of the Carolinas on Friday, Sept. 1, launched the initiative Operation Dry Baby Bottoms in partnership with Community Journals and the Children’s Hospital of Greenville Health System.
Palmetto Proactive Healthcare will open location at Drayton Mills Marketplace
Palmetto Proactive Healthcare, a direct primary care family medicine practice, announced Monday it will move into Drayton Mills Marketplace in January 2018.
GHS, USC partner to commercialize medical research
The two institutions will work to connect with biotech companies and identify funding opportunities for clinicians interested in launching startups.
