| | | Health Sciences South Carolina
Member Organizations
Established in 2004, Health Sciences South Carolina is a public-private partnership between the state’s research universities and largest health systems that share the vision of using health sciences research to drive economic growth and improve the state’s health status.
| Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina
Jim Barker, President
www.clemson.edu |  | Clemson University was founded in 1889, a legacy of Thomas Green Clemson, who willed his Fort Hill plantation home and surrounding property to the state of South Carolina to establish a technical and scientific institution. Today, Clemson is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a Doctoral/Research University-Extensive, a category comprising less than four percent of all U.S. universities. Clemson offers more than 70 undergraduate and 100 graduate degree programs in five colleges: Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences; Architecture, Arts and Humanities; Business and Behavioral Science; Engineering and Science; and Health, Education and Human Development. In 2001,TIME magazine named Clemson its Public University of the Year, and in 2008, U.S. News and World Report ranked Clemson 27th among public universities nationwide.
| Greenville Hospital System
Greenville, South Carolina
Michael Riordan, President & CEO
www.ghs.org |  | Established nearly a century ago, Greenville Hospital System is a university medical center committed to providing high-quality patient care through advanced technology, leading-edge procedures and experienced healthcare professionals. The 1,110-bed system provides integrated healthcare to communities across Greenville County and beyond through a regional tertiary referral and education center, community hospitals, physician practices, outpatient facilities, wellness centers and community outreach programs, in addition to a long-term acute care hospital and nursing home. GHS currently offers more than 570 clinical trials, including several first-in-nation cancer-treatment trials. Affiliated with the Medical University of South Carolina and University of South Carolina, GHS has an extensive medical education program that includes eight residency programs. Recent honors include being named one of the top 100 integrated healthcare networks, top 50 teaching hospitals and 10 best-led hospitals.
| The Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Ray Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D., President
www.musc.edu |  | As the oldest medical school in the South, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has a long tradition of excellence in education, research and patient care. Today, MUSC is home to over 3,000 students and residents, as well as nearly 10,000 employees, including 1,300 faculty members. As the largest non-federal employer in Charleston, MUSC and its affiliates have collective budgets in excess of $1.3 billion per year. MUSC operates a 600-bed medical center, which includes a nationally recognized Children’s Hospital and a leading Institute of Psychiatry. Investigators on campus conduct nearly $200 million per year of research, with six departments ranked among the top 20 of their peers nationally in terms of NIH support. Technology from intellectual property at MUSC has spawned more than a dozen start-up companies. In the midst of a major growth phase, MUSC has completed recently, or is building new facilities for heart, vascular and digestive disease care, allied health education, dental education, children’s research, cancer care and research, drug discovery, bioengineering, and clinical research. Looking to the future, MUSC is aggressively building programs in partnership with its sister research universities and teaching hospitals to better serve the citizens of South Carolina.
| Palmetto Health
Columbia, South Carolina
Charles D. Beaman, Jr., President & CEO
www.palmettohealth.org |  | Palmetto Health is South Carolina’s largest integrated health system in which a progressive environment, the latest technology, including research and treatment protocols, goes hand-in-hand with quality patient care. Palmetto Health is composed of three outstanding hospitals—Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia, and Palmetto Health Baptist in Columbia and Easley—and serves as the primary teaching hospital for the University of South Carolina. Palmetto’s three hospitals are highly respected, long-time community members. Each year, they treat nearly a half million patients, welcome nearly 6,600 babies into the world, treat more than 82,000 pediatric patients, 3,000 cancer patients, accommodate 132,000 Emergency department visits and make nearly 43,000 home care visits.
| Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System
Spartanburg, South Carolina
Ingo Angermeier, President & CEO
www.srhs.com |  | Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System (SRHS) is one of South Carolina's largest community-based healthcare providers. Offering the latest in cancer, heart, women's and orthopedic care, SRHS is also home to South Carolina's only accredited stroke and chest pain centers, in addition to the Village at Pelham in Greer. SRHS has been named a "Top 100" hospital for computer technology and has received awards for patient satisfaction and nursing care. In 2005, Gibbs Regional Cancer Center became one of only six cancer centers on the globe to form an alliance with the world-famous M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
| University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina
Andrew Sorensen, PhD., President
www.sc.edu |  | Established in 1801, the University of South Carolina is the state's most comprehensive university, offering more than 350 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs, including law and medicine, on its flagship campus in Columbia. Seven satellite campuses extend Carolina's reach to every corner of the state. Through its mission of teaching, research and service, the University of South Carolina is dedicated to improving the lives of South Carolinians and making the state a healthier and more prosperous place to live, work and do business. | | | | | |
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