Palmetto Health Care Case Study

Palmetto Health Baptist Park ridge is a Seventy six bed medical facility that provides extraordinary care including medical surgical inpatient units as well as an intensive care unit, and six operating rooms. They also offer outpatient care as well as diagnostic and treatment services including laboratory, imaging and more.as their mission statement states care to be remembered, palmetto has renamed their open spaces to make things look less like a hospital and more like home. There is a front porch and a back porch, a living room, a dining room, and even a family room. There is an open visitation policy which allows families to visit their loved ones anytime, day or night. Easy access to automated teller machines near the arbor dining room and refresh café. Which offers a variety of freshly prepared and ready to order entries is open every day from six thirty in the morning to seven pm. The gift shop is operated by a team of auxiliary volunteers. Not only is palmetto health committed to improving the physical emotional and spiritual health of all individuals and communities, but to be remembered by each patient as providing care and compassion while adhering to a code of trust, fairness and honesty. by respecting one’s worth as a human being as they work together to achieve the
highest level of services and quality in all they pursue. Palmetto health hospital system includes: Palmetto Health Baptist 413 Beds), Palmetto health Baptist health Heart Hospital (124 beds at palmetto Health Richland )and last but not least Palmetto Health Richland( 649 beds). Each year palmetto health cares for nearly half a million patients, Welcome more than five thousand five hundred babies into the world while treating more than eighty pediatric patients and three thousand cancer patients, and accommodate more than one hundred fifty thousand Emergency Department visits performed more than forty thousand mammograms and more than forty thousand five hundred home care visits. In addition to the five acute care hospitals palmetto has an expansive physician practice network, dozens of affiliated clinics, and specialty care practices and a non-profit foundation.it is also a teaching hospital with twenty two residency and fellowship programs affiliated with the University of South Carolina School Of Medicine. There are more than seven hundred physicians who come together to ensure patients receive the highest quality, coordinated and proactive care. There are about two thousand eight hundred team members and five hundred Registered nurses, and about one thousand one hundred eighty five corporate team members (including RNs). Some of The specialty Areas are Bariatric surgery, Behavioral care Breast cancer care Breast care
Emergency/Level 1 Trauma care Geriatrics Health and vascular care
Musculoskeletal Neurosciences/Stroke Orthopedics Pediatrics
Surgery Women’s care
Neonatal Including The area’s only level III Neonatal Intensive Care Units ,
Obstetrics, with high risk pregnancy and genetic counselling. Other Service areas in the Midlands include: Counties of Anderson, Calhoun, Clarendon, Fairfield, Greenville, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, Newberry, Oconee, Orangeburg, Pickens, Richland, Spartanburg and Sumter. For the Sixth year in a row, Palmetto Health has been recognized by readers of the state as best in health care.
Palmetto Health was picked as the best Hospital system and Palmetto Health Heart as the best hospital for Heart Health. In addition, Healing Waters was named best Day Spa and best Massage. IDG’s Computerworld recognized Palmetto Health among the 2015 Best places to work in IT, one of the top one hundred organizations the challenge their IT staffs while providing great benefits, career opportunities and an enjoyable work environment. Palmetto health ranked thirty ninth among the top one hundred in the nation. Palmetto Health is the only organization recognized in South
Carolina