Healthcare
- Palmetto Health Baptist
- Palmetto Health Baptist Parkridge
- Palmetto Health Children's Hospital
- Palmetto Health Heart Hospital
- Palmetto Health Richland
Palmetto Health is the region's largest, most comprehensive, locally owned, not-for-profit health care resource. The 1,138-bed system in Columbia, a JCAHO-accredited institution, has more than 8,400 employees and 1,000 physicians. The hospitals of Palmetto Health provide care for 70 percent of the residents of Richland County and more than 55 percent of the healthcare for the combined Richland/Lexington county area.
- Providence Hospital (downtown Columbia)
- Providence Heart & Vascular Institute
- Providence Hospital Northeast
- Providence Orthopaedic & Neuro Spine Institute
With the main campus located in downtown Columbia, this 314-bed facility is best known for the expertise in cardiac care it provides through Providence Heart Institute, which serves as a nationally recognized referral center for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular care, however, is only one center of excellence at Providence. The physicians and staff at Providence also provide extraordinary care in the fields of general surgery, orthopedics, internal medicine, ophthalmology, emergency medicine, nuclear medicine and related diagnostic services, rehabilitation services, and occupational medicine.