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The search for a director for South Carolina s Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is over.
Dr. Edward Simmer, MD, was selected as the agency s new director Tuesday morning. Simmer will fill the post vacated by Rick Toomey last summer.
Dr. Simmer currently serves as Chief Medical Officer of TRICARE Health Plan, and will be retiring from the Navy on Dec. 31, 2020. Previously, he served as Commanding Officer and CEO at the Naval Hospital in WA, Oak Harbor. Official say Simmer has over 25 years of extensive clinical leadership and team-building experience, including transforming a large health care system.
SC DHEC has picked a new director amid COVID-19 pandemic
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Elijah Packer, a senior at College of Charleston, gets a COVID-19 test at a S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control pop-up testing site on campus on Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. After a months-long search, Dr. Edward Simmer was chosen to lead DHEC and its 3,500 employees. File/Lauren Petracca/Staff
By Lauren Petracca lpetracca@postandcourier.com
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A career military medical officer was chosen Tuesday to lead South Carolina s public health agency, filling a months-long vacancy amid the biggest health crisis in a century.Â
The agency s board members voted unanimously to put Dr. Edward Simmer in charge of the state Department of Health and Environmental Control and its 3,500 employees, saying his experience and leadership qualities checked off all their boxes.