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Prisma Health presented its annual report to the organization that oversees the system's lease and a group of Greenville lawmakers Friday afternoon. During the annual review of the system by Greenville Health Authority — the organization left behind when Prisma Health, formerly the Greenville Health System, transitioned into a private nonprofit organization — a number of topics were brought up including access to care in the north Greenville area. Prisma reported a quantifiable community benefit of over $527 million — an increase of over $62 million from the previous year — and...

Of the 20,613 COVID-19 test results reported by DHEC on Thursday, 10.3% were positive. Greenville County had 196 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. The most populated of the state's 46 counties, Greenville accounts for 10.2% of the state's population according to Census Bureau estimates, and it accounted for 13.7% of the confirmed and probable cases reported Thursday. The state cumulative total is now 419,435 confirmed cases, and there have been 7,010 total confirmed deaths. Additionally, there have been 56,852 probable cases and 827 probable deaths.  Pickens County, which accou...

MUSC officials claim vaccination data is misleading VIDEO: MUSC officials claim vaccination data is misleading By Nick Reagan | January 27, 2021 at 6:38 PM EST - Updated January 28 at 11:04 AM The tracking data published by the Department of Health and Environmental Control every day also shows MUSC has only administered about 51 percent of those doses. Chief Quality Office Dr. Danielle Scheurer says that data is not complete. “Our record of truth is our medical record because we know exactly what we are doing in our medical record and that is different than the record of truth DHEC i...