East Cooper Medical Center and Kindred Complete Sale of Old East Cooper Hospital Facility
August 9, 2011
MOUNT PLEASANT, SC – August 9, 2011 – East Cooper Medical Center and Kindred Healthcare have announced the closing on the sale of the former East Cooper Regional Medical Center site to Kindred Healthcare.
Kindred Healthcare has purchased the 125,000 square feet facility, located at the vacant address at Johnnie Dodds Boulevard and Bowman Road. In a news release last month, Kindred announced plans to relocate its existing Kindred Hospital Charleston, a downtown specialty hospital to the Mount Pleasant facility, renovating it to house 59 long term acute care beds and 35 sub acute care beds by 2012. The long-term, acute care hospital specializes in treating and rehabilitating patients with needs beyond the length of the typical acute care hospital stay.
We’re excited to welcome our new neighbor, Kindred, to Mount Pleasant, said Evan Ray, Chief Operating Officer at East Cooper. They are well-known for their high quality of care for long-term, acute hospital stays-and we are looking forward to strengthening our relationship with them. We plan to work closely with Kindred, and know our patients will benefit by having the Kindred facility in Mount Pleasant.
We look forward to moving to the Mount Pleasant area and expanding the services we can provide to more effectively meet the healthcare needs of our community, said Jennifer Sheets, Chief Executive Officer of Kindred Hospital Charleston. At Kindred, we are committed to providing high quality, cost-effective healthcare services and providing a continuum of services that allows us to Continue the Care for our patients and residents through an entire episode of treatment and recovery.
East Cooper Medical Center left the old facility in April 2010, when it opened its new, five-floor, 250,000-squre foot hospital at 2000 Hospital Drive.
About East Cooper Medical Center
East Cooper Medical Center, part of Tenet South Carolina, is a 130-bed acute care hospital located at 2000 Hospital Drive in Mount Pleasant. East Cooper Medical Center has been providing healthcare to the East Cooper community since 1986. We provide a number of services including 24-hour emergency care, women’s and children’s services, diagnostic imaging and interventional services, orthopedics, sports medicine, pain care, adult and pediatric rehabilitation services, wound care services and surgical care, including nationally recognized spine surgery and breast reconstruction surgery. East Cooper Medical Center is accredited by The Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency. To learn more, visit eastcoopermedctr.com.
About Kindred Healthcare, Inc.
Kindred Healthcare, Inc., a top-150 private employer in the United States, is a healthcare services company based in Louisville, Kentucky with annual revenues of $6 billion and approximately 76,000 employees in 46 states. On June 1, 2011, Kindred through its subsidiaries provided healthcare services in over 2,000 locations, including 121 long-term acute care hospitals, five inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, 224 nursing and rehabilitation centers, 113 inpatient rehabilitation units (primarily hospital-based) and a contract rehabilitation services business, RehabCare, which served approximately 1,560 non-affiliated facilities. Ranked as one of Fortune magazine’s Most Admired Healthcare Companies for three years in a row, Kindred’s mission is to promote healing, provide hope, preserve dignity and produce value for each patient, resident, family member, customer, employee and shareholder we serve. For more information, go to www.kindredhealthcare.com.
