The MUSC Health Medical Center is a health science and academic center based in South Carolina. It has a 700-bed medical center (MUSC Health) and six colleges that train approximately 2600 health care professionals per year.
In 1946 the South Carolina General Assembly passed a $4 million bill to construct a new teaching hospital that was brought under the control of the Medical College of South Carolina. Construction began in 1951 and the Medical College of South Carolina Hospital was completed and dedicated on May 10, 1955 and opened its doors to its first patients on September 26, 1955. It was later renamed Medical University of South Carolina Hospital and has now been officially shortened to simply MUSC Health Medical Center.
Transplant Center ranked as one of the top ten organ transplantation centers in the nation. The MUSC Health Transplant Center is supported by the only HLA Laboratory in South Carolina. MUSC Health Medical Center is a Level I Trauma Center and is the regional referral center for the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
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MUSC ranked as No. 1 hospital in South Carolina - News 2 at 5pm.
References
http://www.muschealth.org/about-us/index.html About MUSC Health
External links
- MUSC Health Medical Center
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