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Midlands nurses ‘exhausted’ as COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to rise in SC By Emily Wakeman | January 14, 2021 at 9:00 PM EST - Updated January 14 at 9:00 PM COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - In the face of record-breaking COVID-19 hospitalizations in South Carolina this week, hospitals across the state are reaching breaking points when it comes to the number of beds available and the staff to man those beds. On Thursday, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control reported that 2,427 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized and 84% of all beds are in use. Nurses at N...

Health officials urge public to adhere to guidelines, asks for patience with vaccine rollout Marcus Navarro, Greenville News © MATT BURKHARTT/Staff The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine sits ready to be administered by CVS, to over 70 people including residents and staff at Patewood Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Greenville, Monday, Dec 28, 2020, for round one of three. The residents will be the first at a long-term facility in South Carolina to receive the vaccine. State health officials gave a vaccine update but also gave an urgent call to the public to follow COVID-19 ...

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Legal challenge could hamper Prisma's plan to buy three LifePoint hospitals Modern Healthcare Illustration / Getty Images Prisma Health's plan to buy three hospitals from for-profit LifePoint Health is facing a legal challenge, the health system's CEO revealed Monday at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Prisma, South Carolina's largest health system, announced in early 2020 plans to acquire two hospital systems from Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint: Camden, S.C.-based KershawHealth and Columbia, S.C.-based Providence Health, which together include three hospitals, a free-standing emerge...

ABC Columbia Dec 30, 2020 6:16 PM EST COLOMBIA (WOLO): As covid-19 infections spread at alarming rates across South Carolina, local leaders and health officials held a virtual press conference Wednesday to urge South Carolinians to stay home this New Year’s Eve. Since Christmas day, more than 11-thousand new coronavirus cases have been reported in South Carolina and more than 120 deaths. And as those cases rise, so too are the number of hospitalizations. Prisma Health President and CEO, Mark O’Halla says, “yesterday Prisma had 453 patients hospitalized due to covid across the system. T...