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A Laurens County, South Carolina hospital will temporarily move its labor and delivery services to another hospital.

State OB-GYNs say the fetal heartbeat law leaves a long list of questions unanswered on what remains legal.

State OB-GYNs say the fetal heartbeat law leaves a long list of questions unanswered on what remains legal.

Greenville News readers Ask Angelia about health care plans promoted, accepted by Prisma Health.

Prisma Health is calling a recent influx of pediatric patients a "surge," and officials are blaming it on a convergence of respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19.

Upstate hospitals are at odds over how to handle patients who are treated for opioid overdoses in emergency rooms. Prisma Healths Greenville Memorial Hospital and Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System give patients naloxone, the opioid overdose-reversal drug, as theyre being discharged. Thats so even if theyre not ready to seek recovery from addiction, they have an antidote that could keep them alive if they overdose again. Bon Secours St. Francis hopes to distribute naloxone in the future,...

LifePoint Health and Prisma Health call off acquisition deal Modern Healthcare Print Prisma Health will not acquire three hospitals and a free-standing emergency department from LifePoint Health as previously agreed upon, the two companied announced Friday.   Last March, the organizations entered an agreement for Prisma Health-Midlands to acquire KershawHealth, a single-hospital system in Camden, S.C., and Providence Health, a two-hospital system based in Columbia, S.C., from LifePoint.   In ...

Prisma Health is no longer taking walk-ins at vaccination sites, officials say Reached 9,370 daily COVID-19 vaccinations on Jan. 21 Share Updated: 6:10 PM EST Jan 22, 2021 Anne Newman Reached 9,370 daily COVID-19 vaccinations on Jan. 21 Share Updated: 6:10 PM EST Jan 22, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript WASHINGTON. SOUTH CAROLINA’S GOVERNOR HENRY MCMASTER TALKED ABOUT VACCINE DISTRIBUTION AS HE VISITED THE UPSTATE TODAY AS HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE RECEI...

By Mary Katherine Wildeman mkwildeman@postandcourier.com Robinson said Bon Secours is not "disclosing when or exactly where" its shipment of doses will arrive "due to security reasons." Sign up for our Greenville weekly update newsletter. Sign up for weekly roundups of our top stories, news and culture from the Upstate. This newsletter is hand-curated by a member of our Greenville news staff. Email Sign Up! The health system will give priority to "frontline staff" when the vaccine arrives and w...