State lawmakers from Greenville County appointed Dr. Jerry Youkey to serve on the Greenville Health Authority s board early Wednesday morning. What I believe, anyway, is that the Greenville Health Authority is tasked with really trying to facilitate the health care and well-being of the citizens in the Upstate, Youkey said before a vote was called. And so, I hope to be able to contribute to that in whatever way I can and I appreciate this opportunity.
A seat was left vacant after Phillip Liston, former chair of the board, became GHA s president, a few weeks before the board conducted its annual review of Prisma Health-Upstate.
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In January alone, 592 people died with COVID-19 in seven Upstate South Carolina counties. Across the state, there were 1,740 deaths in the month of January.
Here are some of their stories, from a couple who died 12 days apart to a champion for some of the region s poorest areas. Beloved children and grandchildren who will miss playing games and getting special candies from their grandfather.
They will never be forgotten. We help tell the stories of family and friends we lost too soon due to COVID-19.
It is their voices we miss.
Surely, many of us have remembered lost loved ones and thought it.
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.
phone at 833-2PRISMA (833-277-4762.)
Prisma Health locations can be found in the DHEC vaccine locator above.
The large-scale community vaccination site in Columbia is across the street from South Carolina s Williams Brice Stadium at 22 National Guard Rd., Columbia, SC 29201, or Gamecock Park.
The following locations are set up for limited walk-in first vaccine doses, pending supply (check the web site daily):
Gamecock Park, 22 National Guard Road, Columbia
Kmart site at 1 Kmart Plaza, Greenville (Note, will not have first dose walk-ins for Friday, Jan. 29)
Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital
Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital
Prisma Health Laurens County Hospital (Until Feb. 1, when it transitions to the new site referenced above)
Published on Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Prisma Health has reopened walk-in COVID-19 vaccinations to assist those in the 1a category who do not have computer access. The walk-ins will be based on vaccine availability. Prisma Health will calculate its vaccine availability for walk-ins every day based on those who have appointments.
Limited walk-in appointments for vaccines will be allowed at the following locations:
• Kmart site at 1 Kmart Plaza, Greenville
• Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital
• Prisma Health Laurens County Hospital
• Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital
• Gamecock Park, 22 National Guard Road, Columbia
• Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital, Sumter
“We stopped allowing walk-ins over the weekend due to our concern about supply,” said Dr. Saria Saccocio, Prisma Health chief medical officer for Ambulatory Services and co-chair of the Prisma Health Vaccine Task Force. “However, we heard your feedback, and our team has worked tirelessly to be ab