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Greenville lawmakers are looking for the Greenville Health Authority to take a more hands on approach with Prisma Health.
Lawmakers have raised a series of concerns with the health system since it transitioned from the Greenville Health System and affiliated with Palmetto Health in 2017.
The latest confrontation comes in the form of a resolution which makes it clear the members of the Greenville delegation want the GHA the public entity left when Prisma-Upstate became a private non-profit to take a more active role in supervising the system s operations.
The resolution, introduced in the state Senate on March 31 and in the House on April 6 both referred to committees was the product of complaints from doctors who were troubled by the culture within Prisma and felt they weren t practicing patient centric medicine, lawmakers say.
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Prisma Health presented its annual report to the organization that oversees the system s lease and a group of Greenville lawmakers Friday afternoon.
During the annual review of the system by Greenville Health Authority the organization left behind when Prisma Health, formerly the Greenville Health System, transitioned into a private nonprofit organization a number of topics were brought up including access to care in the north Greenville area.
Prisma reported a quantifiable community benefit of over $527 million an increase of over $62 million from the previous year and touted its pandemic response, which includes providing personal protective equipment and ventilators to nearly 100 healthcare entities, providing 15% of testing in the state, treating a third of the state s hospitalized COVID-19 patients and completing over 200,000 vaccinations to date.