Palmetto Health Richland

Palmetto Health Richland is a 649-bed tertiary care hospital located just north of downtown Columbia, South Carolina.

The hospital was originally established in 1892 as Columbia Hospital and was one of the first hospitals in the city. Over the years, with the growth of Columbia and the arrival of Fort Jackson, the hospital expanded and quickly outgrew its original location on Harden St. by the 1960s. Later renamed Richland Memorial Hospital it moved in 1972 to its present location near the intersection of Bull St. and Harden St. Extension. In 1998, the hospital was renamed Palmetto Health Richland when it was announced that the hospital would merge with Baptist Medical Center.

Today, Palmetto Health Richland is one of the largest hospitals in the state with over 20 specialties. It is affiliated with the University of South Carolina and is the regional referral center for the Midlands of South Carolina.

Palmetto Health Heart Hospital
In January 2006, the 124 inpatient bed Palmetto Health Heart Hospital, located on the Richland campus, opened its doors and became the most advanced, most sophisticated, state-of-the-art cardiac care facility in the state. Serving patients from the Midlands and all over central South Carolina, the $80 million, 200,000-square-foot hospital is the state’s only freestanding facility dedicated entirely to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

CareForce
The Palmetto Richland is home to CareForce, an emergency and critical-care-transport aeromedical service. Founded in 1998, CareForce is one of the two aeromedical services in the Midlands area of South Carolina. The CareForce helicopter fleet is a state-of-the-art Bell 230 owned by Palmetto Health and a Bell 206 is co-located every other day at Bamberg Memorial Hospital in Bamberg, SC and Clarendon Memorial Hospital in Manning, SC. This allows CareForce to be operational at all times, even during routine maintenance.

External link

 * Palmetto Health's Website