Self Regional Healthcare Receives 2018 Governor’s Award
The Governor’s Award is given to organizations that show exemplary progress towards implementing the Baldrige Performance Excellence Criteria and are role models for others in the state.
The Governor’s Award is given to organizations that show exemplary progress towards implementing the Baldrige Performance Excellence Criteria and are role models for others in the state.
Three donations totaling over $100,000 were presented individually to Healthy Learners Greenwood, Greenwood Food Bank and the Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness at MUSC to further support efforts for community outreach.
A Level 3 Trauma Center demonstrates the ability to provide prompt assessment, resuscitation, surgery, intensive care and stabilization of injured patients and emergency operations.
The community-based nonprofit, Meg’s House, offers emergency shelter and supportive services for women and children who are victims of domestic violence, and emergency shelter to men who are victims of family violence.
The funding that Self Regional provides is critical for the operations of the GGUM Free Medical Clinic, which serves as a medical home for over 1,300 Greenwood County residents who cannot afford health insurance and do not qualify for Medicaid.
The Self Regional Healthcare Foundation’s scholarship program is built on community campaigns and fundraising that ensure qualified and talented individuals have the opportunity to pursue a career in healthcare.
The M. John and Drenda Heydel Respiratory Therapy scholarship, named in honor of former respiratory therapist and Self Regional Healthcare President and CEO John Heydel and his wife Drenda, is available to first- and second-year students enrolled in the respiratory therapy program at Piedmont Technical College.
Working Well helps employers develop a strategic plan to impact employee health and productivity by focusing on policy, systems and environmental changes, which are often low or no cost.
The 4,200 square foot facility is the newest primary care practice for Self Regional Healthcare, and will also serve as a near site clinic for the Occupational Health program, due in large part to its proximity to the industrial sector of Greenwood.
He discovered that vascular occlusion (blood flow restriction) during low-resistance exercises recreates what happens during heavy weight lifting, making it possible for injured and elderly patients to obtain strength safely, without exerting a large amount of force or bearing a heavy weight load.
