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July 2010

Medical Guide: Building Boom

Regional healthcare offers new and improved facilities to serve the public

Greenville Hospital System

Injuries and illnesses don't keep regular office hours, so why should doctors? Greenville Hospital System's MD360 Convenient Care, an extended-hours medical facility that opened last year for appointments and walk-in care seven days a week offers high-quality comprehensive care for routine medical problems, same-day urgent care treatment, and even physical therapy and rehabilitation. The new, 13,600-square-foot center is at the corner of Scuffletown and Adams Mill roads in the Five Forks area of Simpsonville and it includes, among other features, on-site laboratory and X-ray so that patients can be quickly diagnosed and the right treatment can be started.

In August 2008, GHS's Greer Memorial Hospital opened its doors, complete with expanded emergency services, a new Women's Center and enhanced patient services set among an innovative campus blending leading-edge medicine with Greer's architectural heritage. The $58 million, 82-bed hospital is on the new 130-acre $100 million-plus Greer Medical Campus, located at 830 South Buncombe Road. In addition to offering a Level III Emergency Trauma Center staffed around-the-clock by board-certified emergency physicians, the Greer campus also provides a full range of imaging services, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear imaging, radiology, and computer tomography (CT) imaging.

Spartanburg Regional Hospital

In October 2008, The Village Hospital at Pelham opened its doors, offering emergency services, medical and surgical care, and maternity services. The national award-winning room design was created by Clemson University's School of Architecture and Health, and within each patient room are several features designed to maximize functional efficiency and effectiveness for the patient care team without disturbing the patient. Each room features GetWellNetwork®, an interactive system that provides patients and their families access to patient education, on-demand movies and games, Internet access, and area information.

A month earlier, SRH assembled twelve moveable, adjustable, and highly versatile operating rooms—a system called VARIOP, made by the German company Maquet. The state-of-the art modular system includes doors, a ceiling, X-ray viewing screens, medical gas supply outlets, electrical control panels, and numerous options and specifications. Already proven and popular throughout Europe, Spartanburg Regional's was the first in North America.

AnMed Health Medical Center

To meet the growing needs of an eight-county service area, AnMed Health launched a four-year, $74 million renovation of the Medical Center Campus in 2007. The construction converted AnMed Health Medical Center into an all-private room facility. It also resulted in the opening of AnMed Health Heart and Vascular Center, a comprehensive neuroscience center, an expanded emergency department, additional parking, and a landing pad for AnMed Health LifeFlight, a hospital-based helicopter program that launched
in January.

New construction has not been limited to the Medical Center Campus. In October 2009, AnMed Health Wound and Hyperbaric Medicine celebrated its opening on the second floor of the AnMed Health Cancer Center. This state-of-the-art wound care center is the first to offer hyperbaric oxygen therapy
in Anderson.

Bon Secours St. Francis Health System

Bon Secours St. Francis Health System, Greenville, has a well-earned reputation for bringing patient-centered technology and latest advances in care to the Upstate healthcare landscape. And at the new St. Francis Millennium campus, the Early Detection Center offers some of the most advanced imaging equipment available in the Southeast. This facility offers both low-dose radiation CT and a special CT imager that integrates "nuclear" imaging with computerized 3D CT scanning. This highly specialized equipment allows surgeons and physicians to pinpoint causes of abnormalities (such as adenomas) before a surgery—with the result that some procedures are now reduced from several hours of exploratory surgery to mere minutes.

Upstate women are a special group benefiting from St. Francis' focus on patient-centered technology. The "30-Minute Mammo" is a direct result of the quicker, less painful digital mammography offered through St. Francis Breast Health Center. Recognizing the need of working women, the center offers scheduling for the two low-dose digital mammography scanners late on weekdays and on Saturdays.