Self Regional HealthCare Partners with MUSC Health Cardiothoracic Surgery Network to Improve Cardiovascular Surgical Care | MUSK
Greenwood, South Carolina (August 31, 2022) – Self Regional HealthCare and the Charleston, South Carolina-based cardiothoracic surgery network MUSC Health have signed an affiliation agreement with the goal of optimizing high-quality local care already in place and to expand the program. surgical capabilities.
Through this affiliation, Self Regional will work in conjunction with MUSC Health to advance the expertise of clinical staff through mentorship related to the latest technologies and procedures in cardiovascular surgical care. Additionally, affiliation with MUSC Health will allow Self Regional patients access to a wealth of clinical trials, providing upstate patients with a wide range of the most promising cardiovascular treatments currently available in the country.
“Self Regional is thrilled with this partnership,” said Matt Logan, MD, President and CEO of Self Regional Healthcare. “Working with such a respected organization like MUSC will not only allow our patients to have better access to treatments, but will also improve the cardiothoracic care we are able to provide here in the community.”
Self Regional is widely recognized for providing high quality cardiovascular care, from complex procedures requiring cardiothoracic surgery to the diagnosis, treatment and management of heart and vascular disease. Self Regional’s Cardiac and Vascular Center offers a wide range of advanced cardiac care ranging from preventive and emergency cardiac care to open heart surgery and rehabilitation. Self Regional’s Heart Failure Clinic was recognized by the American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines in 2015, 2016, and 2017 based on the clinic’s quality and outcomes of stroke and stroke care. ‘heart failure. Its nationally accredited chest pain center ensures that the team of emergency physicians, cardiologists, critical care nurses, paramedics and cardiac catheterization laboratory follow national guidelines to diagnose and quickly provide lifesaving treatment to patients suffering life-threatening cardiac events.
“As the only comprehensive academic medical center in the state, we have the unique ability and responsibility to assist other South Carolina healthcare providers in their search to optimize local cardiac care,” said Marc. R. Katz, MD, professor and division chief of MUSC Health. Cardiothoracic surgery. “We want to help our colleagues at Greenwood take things to the next level through collaboration, education and research, as well as assisting clinical care when needed for the benefit of the patients and families they serve. serve.
MUSC Health Heart and Vascular Center has the largest combined team of cardiac and vascular specialists, researchers, and educators in the state, providing broad experience at all levels of cardiac care. The multidisciplinary team offers deep and broad expertise that translates to higher rates of complications and hospital readmissions than the national average, while being the only program in South Carolina to offer heart transplantation, valve surgery robotic and complex aortic surgeries. The center also includes the state’s only cardiovascular genetics program, providing personalized care for patients and families with inherited heart and vascular diseases. The program is consistently recognized as “high performing” by US News & World Report in abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, aortic valve surgery, heart bypass surgery, and heart failure.
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About Self Regional HealthCare
Self Regional Healthcare is a non-profit, regional referral hospital providing care to residents of Greenwood, Abbeville, Laurens, Saluda, McCormick, Edgefield and Newberry counties. Services include prevention and wellness, acute care and tertiary care services including cancer care, neurosurgery, cardiac and vascular surgery, NICU, orthopedics and genetics. Self Medical Group is its affiliated network of salaried physicians from 44 practices and over 200 physicians.
About MUSC
Founded in 1824 in Charleston, MUSC is the only comprehensive academic healthcare system in the state, with a unique mission to preserve and optimize human life in South Carolina through education, research and patient care. Each year, MUSC educates more than 3,000 students across six colleges—dentistry, graduate, health professions, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy—and trains more than 850 residents and fellows in its healthcare system. MUSC provided more than $327.6 million in research funding in fiscal year 2021, leading the state in overall research funding. MUSC also leads the state in funding federal and state institutes of health, with more than $220 million. For more information on academic programs, visit musc.edu.
As a health care system of the Medical University of South Carolina, MUSC Health is dedicated to providing the highest quality and safest patient care while educating and training generations of health care providers. health and exceptional leaders to serve the people of South Carolina and beyond. Patient care is provided in 14 hospitals with approximately 2,500 beds and five additional hospital sites under development; more than 350 telehealth sites, with connectivity to patients’ homes; and nearly 750 healthcare locations located in all regions of South Carolina. In 2022, for the eighth consecutive year, US News & World Report named MUSC Health the #1 hospital in South Carolina. To learn more about clinical patient services, visit muschealth.org.
MUSC and its affiliates have collective annual budgets totaling $5.1 billion. The approximately 25,000 members of the MUSC team include world-class faculty, physicians, specialist providers, scientists, students, affiliates and care team members who deliver and support education, cutting-edge research and patient care.
