your guide to choosing the best quality specialty hospital: south carolina hospitals
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Special South Carolina Hospitals for SpecialPatients
South Carolina Hospitals: Your Guide to Choosing the Best Quality Specialty Hospital
South Carolina's hospitals are up-to-date and offer the fullest range of medical science and technologFrom simple first aid in the fully-equipped emergency rooms to treatment for the most advance and serious diseasespatient in South Carolina can rest assured of receiving the best health care anywhere in the world.
Today the state of medicine has taken a radical turn. Often times, patients will present for Health Care with extremconditions of a very "particular nature" - requiring special care and the very latest in technology used by the moexperienced and knowledgeable Physicians in South Carolina. Fortunately, there are hospitals in South Caroliproviding just such special care for every patient with every special need.
South Carolina's Shriner's Children Hospital provides treatment to any child regardless the family's ability to pay.
One of the best known SC Specialty Hospitals is the Shriner's Children Hospital inGreenville, South Carolina. The Shriner's Organization owns and operates this not-for-profacility with the express purpose of helping children with musculoskeletal disorders.With the motto, "so every child may walk," the Shriner's Children's Hospitalprovides treatment to any child regardless of the family's ability to pay.With top world leading Pediatric Orthopedists and Surgeons, the Shriner's Hospital
provides therapy and procedures for children suffering from conditions ranging frommultiple sclerosis to polio to severe trauma and amputation.
Although not every child is curable, the goal of the hospital is to not only treat children but also provide the means fgreater mobility and independence. Whether the best course of treatment is drug therapy, surgery or the use prosthetic limb replacements, the Shriner's' Children's Hospital will do whatever is necessary to help a child walk.
Medical University of South Carolina Children's Hospital - Best Research Specialty PedHospital in the State Another hospital in South Carolina dedicated solely to pediatcare is the Medical University of South Carolina's Children's Hospital. "An integral part of tMedical University of South Carolina, the MUSC Children's Hospital is dedicated to enhancithe health of children throughout South Carolina, and to providing an environment thsupports excellence in pediatric patient care, teaching and research." - MUSCKIDS
MUSC Kids Pediatric Health System for South Carolina is dedicated to providingvariety of services and programs to benefit the health and well-being of achildren. They include:
Child Life Program
Children's Research Institute
Community Outreach Program
Emergency and Transport Services
General Pediatric Care
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Inpatient and Outpatient Care
Pediatric Burn Center
Prenatal Wellness Center
Psychiatric Care
Specialty Care in more than 20 areas
Surgical Services
Transplant Program
Trident Area SAFE KIDS - carbon monoxide poisoning education
The Children's hospital is a research and teaching facility associated with South Carolina Medical School. Providing cafor every known childhood disease, the Children's Hospital in Charleston is equipped with the equipment, laboratoriand facilities especially geared toward the patient who is still growing, developing and susceptible to illnesses not alwafound in adults.
Additionally, the MUSC Children's Hospital treats children who suffer serious injury and trauma. Toddlers many times wfind themselves with leg or foot injuries even before they have taken their first step. The task of teaching a child to wawith missing limbs can be an arduous endeavor but the staff at the Medical University Of South Carolina's ChildrenHospital approach it with skill and precision.
The Best Cardiac Care Center In South Carolina Can Be Found in the Heart of the StatProvidence Hospital, Columbia
Although not a hospital dedicated solely to one type of illness, Columbia SouthCarolina's Providence Hospital has established a reputation as one of the Nation'sLeading Cardiac Care Centers. Providence Hospital takes the lead not only in thetreating of heart-related diseases but also prevention and the physical therapy involvedin recovery.
Providence Hospital takes the lead in South Carolina by pioneering advances in"bloodless" open heart surgery. By using "non-blood volume expanders" and "non-blood fillers" when necessary in open heart surgery, it totally eliminates the spread of unwanted blood-borne pathogens. Also, it bloodless bypass allows treatment for thosewho have certain religious objections to receiving a blood transfusion from anther
human being.
SC Specialty Hospitals Get Awards and Recognitions
Bon Secours St. Francis hospital in Charleston, South Carolina is one of the leading vision treating hospitals on the EaCoast. With a staff of some of the world's most admired ophthalmologists, Saint Francis led South Carolina in thinstallation and implementation of laser-vision surgery in the 1970s.
St Francis was honored with the 2007 Gold Achiever Award of the SC Governor's Quality Award Program fproviding high-quality healthcare services to the people of South Carolina.
South Carolina Hospitals Pioneering Noninvasive Robotic Radio Surgery Systems CyberKnife: Treating Cancer Anywhere in the Body
Early in 2008, St. Francis Healthcare unveiled its CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery Syste This state-of-the-art treatment that gives new hope to patients with cancer and their loveones. Roper St. Francis is the first in South Carolina and one of only 76 mediccenters worldwide to offer CyberKnife. This is huge, ground-breaking news!
CyberKnife, is housed in the Radiation Oncology Department at Roper Hospital’s downtowcampus. It is a noninvasive robotic radiosurgery system that treats cancanywhere in the body including the brain, spine, lung, liver, prostate apancreas. Radiosurgery is a medical procedure that allows noninvasive surgery by mea
of directed beams of ionizing radiation.
"Intelligent Robotics" allow CyberKnife to continually track tumor position, detect any tumor or patient movement anautomatically correct the treatment delivery – without the need to manually reposition the patient or interrupt thtreatment. Phenomenal South Carolina Hospital innovations, indeed!
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