Growing here: Physician education

Greenville Hospital System, USC team up to expand training here

APRIL 9, 2010 6:11 p.m. (0)

Steve Sloate’s job is to live 15 years in the future, then figure out how to get there.

What he envisions for Greenville is an expansion of medical training in an empty shell of a $20-million building on the campus of the Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center.  Continue reading...

 

GHS, USC approve doctor training expansion in Greenville

First class expected in 2012

AUGUST 6, 2010 8:55 a.m. (1)

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The University of South Carolina School of Medicine ­– Greenville got the go-ahead  from the boards of the Greenville Hospital System and the University of South Carolina.

The next step for the expansion of the doctor training program will be accreditation by the Liaison Committee for Medical Education.  Continue reading...

 

Dreaming here

"We need to be ready to meet the needs of our community"

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 12:00 p.m. (0)

Think of it as an opportunity for the Greenville Drive and the Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center to team up with the community and hit a home run for improving health care in the Upstate.

That’s the goal for the “Field of Dreams Gala,” a first-of-its-kind event planned for Oct. 7 at Fluor Field being staged to raise scholarship dollars for students enrolled in the GHS Medical Experience Academy, a recently announced pipeline for students interested in advanced training in healthcare.

The fundraiser includes a concert by the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, a black tie and sneakers dress code, formal dining and a finale featuring fireworks as the backdrop to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.  Continue reading...

 

100 years and counting

Greenville Hospital System celebrates a milestone

JANUARY 12, 2012 11:48 a.m. (0)

As they started to raise money through teas, doll shows and operas for Greenville’s first hospital more than a century ago, the Rowena Lodge of the Knights of Pythias ladies’ auxiliary could never have imagined their efforts would be the beginning of one of the nation’s largest public hospital systems.

City Hospital opened on Jan. 10, 1912 on Memminger Street. Antibiotics didn’t exist, babies delivered at home often died of complications and patients had a less than 50-50 chance.

Now, surgeons use robotic equipment to perform intricate surgeries, an array of medicines are available to treat all types of diseases and prescriptions are sent to pharmacies with a keyboard stroke on a computer.  Continue reading...