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GHS achieves university medical center status

Submitted by: John Warner on Aug 31, 2004 at 5:00 am Tagged with: General Archives Source:

GHS achieves university medical center status
Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 10:27 pm

By Liv Osby
HEALTH WRITER
losby@greenvillenews.com

Greenville Hospital System has been designated a University Medical Center and
plans to build a $20 million health sciences center to train future doctors,
nurses and other health-care professionals for medically underserved South
Carolina.
As a university medical center, GHS will be able to expand its research efforts
and attract national funding to support them, CEO Frank Pinckney said Tuesday.
"Four months ago we announced we had a dream of bringing together the state's
largest health-care systems and its medical universities to change the course
of history in South Carolina," he said. "Today's announcements represent the
beginning of a dream come true."
The designation is possible because of the partnership forged in April between
GHS, the Medical University of South Carolina, the University of South Carolina
and Palmetto Health, Pinckney said.
The group is known as the South Carolina Health Sciences Collaborative.
GHS has worked for years to meet the requirements of university medical center
designation, which include combining levels of research and education with
patient care. Pinckney said Tuesday it had finally achieved that status.
The 100,000-square-foot Health Sciences Research, Education and Innovation
Institute on the GHS campus will be a state-of-the-art center, where medical,
nursing and allied health-care students will be educated.

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