Self Regional Healthcare’s AccessHealth Lakelands program serves qualifying individuals in the Lakelands region. Services include case management by certified Community Health Workers, establishment and coordination of care with a primary care home and assistance with other barriers to obtaining optimal health.
Self Regional Healthcare Foundation hosted its annual nursing scholarship luncheon in June and awarded eight scholarships for a combined total of $8,000.
“When women receive prenatal care in an environment where they are allowed to take their time, ask questions and truly prepare themselves for birth around other expectant mothers, the outcomes are very positive.”
Funds for this donation come from hospital gift shop sales, vendor sales, and the “Lights for Love” fundraiser. The Auxiliary & Volunteer Services Chemotherapy Infusion Wing is named in honor of all the volunteers who dedicated much time to the project’s completion.
Self Regional Healthcare is now one of four official drop sites in the upstate for the Mother’s Milk Bank of South Carolina, a non-profit based in Charleston, SC. Mothers with a surplus of breast milk in the Lakelands now have the option to donate it easily to babies who need it most.
Associated Builders and Contractors, a national construction industry trade association, has awarded the Excellence in Construction Eagle Award to Rodgers Builders, Inc. for the recent demolition and renovation projects at Self Regional Healthcare.
Self Regional Healthcare, a not-for-profit healthcare system serving 250,000 residents of the Lakelands region, is a recipient of the Gallup Great Workplace Award for the ninth consecutive year. The Gallup Great Workplace Award honors organizations with engaged team members, enthusiastic and committed to their work.
Self Regional Healthcare received the Gold Medal Award for participation in the South Carolina Hospital Association’s Working Well initiative, a program to support SC hospitals with wellness policies and healthy work environments for team members.
The Self Regional Heart and Vascular Center is holding a community-based Automatic External Defibrillator, or AED, grant program to train and equip community members in case of a cardiac emergency. The program’s goal is to increase awareness of what to do in a cardiac emergency, train more people on how to perform hands-only CPR and to equip various facilities in the Lakelands region with AEDs in case of an emergency.
Prevention Partners in conjunction with Work Healthy America have named Self Regional Healthcare a Gold Medal Award winner for maintaining the highest standard of excellence in work place activity.