COLUMBIA, SC – October 22, 2008 – South Carolina Veterinary Specialists (SCVS), a leading regional veterinary care specialty referral practice, announced it has installed the Eklin Digital Practice(R) at its new…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

Company Requires Physicians to Ensure Safe Practices When Scanning Young Patients; Radiology Leader Assists Medical Experts in Carrying Out New Safety Guidelines for Children BLUFFTON, SC – October 22, 2008…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

ORANGEBURG, SC – September 8, 2008 – Tom Dandridge, president and chief executive officer at the Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties, recently announced that Cheryl Mason, CPA,…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

Helping Hands Establishes Upstate SC Office TAYLORS, SC – October 17, 2008 – Helping Hands Home Medical Equipment, Inc. has established an office at 3305 Rutherford Road, Suite L in Taylors,…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – October 15, 2008 – Companion Property & Casualty Insurance Group, a multi-line insurance company licensed in 47 states, announced today that it has acquired all of the…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

American Heart Association journal report COLUMBIA, SC – October 13, 2008 –  First, the bad news: More American adults have hypertension (high blood pressure) and prehypertension than ever before. Now,…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – October 10, 2008 – Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals recently named Margaret Gregory director of public relations and marketing.  Gregory will be responsible for the development, implementation,…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – October 6, 2008 – South Carolina ranks in the top seven states with the highest proportion of overweight or obese children. Recognizing this problem, BlueChoice(R) HealthPlan of South…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

Employers empowered to efficiently and effectively promote wellness for their employees CHARLESTON, SC – October 6, 2008 – Benefitfocus(R) today announced the addition of a Personal Health Assessment (PHA) tool, a feature…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – October 1, 2008 – With its recent growth outside the borders of South Carolina and an expanded mission to provide more of the nation’s uninsured with its…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

LYMAN, SC – September 30, 2008 – Southern Home Medical Equipment, Inc. (OTC:SHOM) announced today that its Encore Medical Staffing division (Encore Medical), one of the nation’s fastest growing providers of outsourced…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

GREENVILLE, SC – September 26, 2008 – Elliott Davis, LLC, one of the Southeast’s largest accounting and business advisory firms, announced that firm Principal Ira Bedenbaugh recently served as a…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – September 18, 2008 – Medications harm millions of people each year through adverse effects, misuse or medication errors. Many of these errors are made in hospitals and…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – September 17, 2008 – Prostate cancer screening and early detection can mean the difference between life and death for African-African men, who are more likely to get prostate…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – September 8, 2008 – University of South Carolina cancer researchers and the American Cancer Society have joined the “Shop Talk Movement,” a statewide program that is training barbers…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, S.C. – September 4, 2008 – The South Carolina Department of Commerce and the Greenville Area Development Corporation today announced the expansion of Deltex Medical Group’s North American operations…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – August 1, 2008 – Companion Benefit Alternatives Inc. (CBA), the largest manager of mental health and substance abuse treatment benefits in South Carolina, has launched a Web…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – August 1, 2008 – Travis Ansley, D.O., has joined the physicians of Anesthesiology Consultants of South Carolina and will provide anesthesiology and acute pain management services for patients…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

First Family Encourages Healthy Changes in Nutrition, Exercise and Tobacco UseColumbia, S.C. –July 25, 2008 – The Healthy SC Challenge is the Sanford family’s effort to get all South Carolinians…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – July 21, 2008 – Palmetto GBA announced that it has been awarded a contract to continue serving as the federal Medicare program’s National Supplier Clearinghouse for companies…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

First Family Encourages Healthy Changes in Nutrition, Exercise and Tobacco Use COLUMBIA, SC – July 16, 2008 – The Healthy SC Challenge is the Sanford family’s effort to get all…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

GREENVILLE, SC – July 15, 2008 – Elliott Davis, LLC, one of the Southeast’s largest accounting and business advisory firms, announced that firm Principal Ira Bedenbaugh recently served as a…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – July 11, 2008 – The Healthy SC Challenge is the Sanford family’s effort to get all South Carolinians to do just a little more to live a…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – July 10, 2008 – Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals recently named Corey Floyd of Lexington as its Employee of the Year.  A Providence Hospitals employee for five years,…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

LANCASTER, SC – July 8, 2008 – Dennis Jacobs, DO, MMSc, has been awarded the Donald H. Harwood Award for Outstanding Clinical Instructor in the University of South Carolina’s PRMH…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – June 18, 2008 – B.J. Dall, RN, has been named Nurse of the Year by Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals.  Dall is an administrative supervisor at Providence who…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

WEST COLUMBIA, SC – June 4, 2008 – The Lexington Medical Center Foundation has named Donny Burkett to its board of directors. Mr. Burkett joins the 21 -member board and will…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – June 2, 2008 – Sister Judith Ann Karam, CSA, president and CEO of Sisters of Charity Health System and former president and CEO of Sisters of Charity Providence…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – May 29, 2008 – Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas (LFS Carolinas) continues to grow and add capacity to its operations in South Carolina. To enhance effectiveness…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – May 20, 2008 – Palmetto GBA, a leading provider of technical and administrative services for the federal government, announced today that Robert E. Shields, a retired Air…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC –  May 5, 2008 – Ever traveled from downtown Columbia, S.C., to New York City – on foot? That’s roughly the collective distance covered by a group of walkers who…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – May 1, 2008 – Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals will offer free valet parking for patients and visitors at its downtown campus, 2435 Forest Drive, beginning Monday, May 5. …

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – April 30, 2008 – The S.C. Department of Health and Human Services has approved BlueChoice® HealthPlan of South Carolina, a subsidiary of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, to offer Medicaid…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – April 28, 2008 – Harmony Care Hospice welcomes Kandy Horton, RN and Renee’ Martin as Community Relations Coordinators for the Midlands. Ms. Horton, with 22 years in…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – April 24, 2008 – Choice Hotels International (Choice) announced today that it will make HospitalityCare, a limited benefit health insurance plan from Planned Administrators Inc. (PAI), available to…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – April 18, 2008 – Dr. Donald M. Millus has joined Providence Northeast Family Care at Lake Carolina, located at 300 Long Pointe Lane.  This practice provides comprehensive…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – April 16, 2008 – Today, the board of trustees of Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals announced the appointment of George A. Zara as President and CEO.  Zara will…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC -April 15, 2008 – Palmetto GBA, a leading provider of technical and administrative services for the federal government, has been honored by the Ethisphere Institute for its outstanding ethics and…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – March 28, 2008 – The Healthy SC Challenge is the Sanford family’s effort to get all South Carolinians to do just a little more to live a…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC –  March 27, 2008 – BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina is asking companies across the state to participate in the second annual National Walk @ Lunch Day(SM) on Wednesday,…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – March 6, 2008 – Companion Global Healthcare Inc. today announced the addition of three hospitals located in Singapore to its network of overseas medical facilities, bringing its total…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – February 18, 2008 – Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals recently named John Kessler vice president of marketing and business development.  His responsibilities will include strategic planning, marketing, certificate…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – February 8, 2008 – WHAT: Grand Opening of fashion eyewear boutique Frame of Mind (FOM), featuring hors d’oeuvres, designer frame representatives and a drawing to win a…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – February 5, 2008 – Stacey Wilson, RN, has been named nurse of the month by Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals.  Wilson is a senior charge nurse who manages…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – January 31, 2008 – Four new members have been named to the Heritage Society of Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals.  J. Michael Kapp, the late Peggy Huskey…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – January 31, 2008 – Four new members have been named to the Heritage Society of Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals.  J. Michael Kapp, the late Peggy Huskey…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – January 31, 2008 – Four new members have been named to the Heritage Society of Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals.  J. Michael Kapp, the late Peggy Huskey…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – January 31, 2008 – Four new members have been named to the Heritage Society of Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals.  J. Michael Kapp, the late Peggy Huskey…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

FLORENCE, SC – January 29, 2008 – Doctors Care is pleased to announce the opening of its first healthcare center in Florence, located at 2410 Hoffmeyer Road. There are currently…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care

COLUMBIA, SC – January 28, 2008 – First Lady Jenny Sanford announced that today is the final day to judge the top twenty videos in the Quarter-Finals of the Healthy SC School…

Posted in: midlandsbiz   Category: health-care