- MUSC Health and Intuitive Health opened South Carolina’s first combined emergency room and urgent care facility.
- The 12,484-square-foot Garners Ferry location offers 24/7 emergency and urgent care services under one roof.
- Patients are evaluated by emergency-trained providers and billed only for the level of care received.
- Additional combined emergency and urgent care facilities are under construction in Florence, Summerville and West Ashley.
MUSC Health-Midlands, in partnership with Dallas-based Intuitive Health, has opened what it calls the state’s first combined emergency and urgent care facility.
MUSC Health Emergency and Urgent Care-Garners Ferry is located at 7620 Garners Ferry Road, just off Interstate 77. The 12,484-square-foot facility is part of MUSC Health Columbia Medical Center Downtown and features a 24/7 on-site laboratory and radiology services, including X-ray, ultrasound and a 64-slice CT scanner, according to a news release. The facility also accommodates EMS and ambulances.
“For too long, residents of southeast Columbia and the Lower Richland area needed to drive a long way just to reach an emergency room,” MUSC Health-Midlands Division Matt Littlejohn said in the news release. “This facility changes that. It’s a meaningful step toward ensuring that everyone in this community has access to emergency care where they live.”…