The Medical University of South Carolina’s hospital system is seeking donations to help fund a more than $1 billion top-tier cancer center proposed for downtown Charleston.
MUSC Health hopes to raise $250 million from private donors to help pay for the planned new cancer hospital, it announced in launching last week the largest fundraising campaign in the state-owned hospital system’s history.
That’s on top of $175 million in taxpayer dollars the General Assembly is expected to approve for the project this year. The hospital system had requested twice that amount…