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2023 Health Care Heroes
2023 Health Care Heroes Presenting
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e learned three years ago about a new kind of laborer – the essential worker. Who could be more essential than the people who fix us when we’re broken, cure us when we’re ill, care for us when we hurt and help us avoid all that in the first place?
The people who work in health care – doctors, nurses, techs, therapists, aides and so on – remain many of the most admired people in the country. And so, this is our way of saying thank you all, whatever your role, for your everyday heroics. Congratulations to all our 2023 Health Care Heroes honorees!
HERO
About MUSC Founded in 1824 in Charleston, MUSC is the state’s only comprehensive academic health system, with a unique mission to preserve and optimize human life in South Carolina through education, research and patient care. Each year, MUSC educates more than 3,200 students in six colleges – Dental Medicine, Graduate Studies, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy – and trains more than 900 residents and fellows in its health system. MUSC brought in more than $300 million in research funds in fiscal year 2023, leading the state overall in research funding. MUSC also leads the state in federal and National Institutes of Health funding. For information on academic programs, visit musc.edu. As the health care system of the Medical University of South Carolina, MUSC Health is dedicated to delivering the highestquality and safest patient care while educating and training generations of outstanding health care providers and leaders to serve the people of South Carolina and beyond. Patient care is provided at 16 hospitals (includes owned or governing interest), with approximately 2,700 beds and four additional hospital locations in development, more than 350 telehealth sites and nearly 750 care locations situated in all regions of South Carolina. In 2023, for the ninth consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report named MUSC Health University Medical Center in Charleston the No. 1 hospital in South Carolina. To learn more about clinical patient services, visit muschealth.org. MUSC has a total enterprise annual operating budget of $5.9 billion. The nearly 26,000 MUSC family members include worldclass faculty, physicians, specialty providers, scientists, students, affiliates and care team members who deliver groundbreaking education, research, and patient care.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Rebecca McKinney
Dr. Spence Taylor
Community Health Manager, Bon Secour St. Francis, Greenville Over 12 years in her role at St. Francis, Rebecca McKinney has been a whirling dervish of beneficial activity. She has improved health and wellness, and reduced environmental impact, for everyone at and around the hospital. McKinney has won grants totaling more than $1 million, initiated fresh fruit and vegetable programs, and promoted recycling and conservation. She started neighborhood gardening programs, helped develop neighborhood master plans and overseen senior health education programs. She runs the Healthy Outcomes Program, and a chronic disease education and management program and … so much more. In her personal life, she serves various community organizations, was named Urban Conservationist of the Year by the county water district and Adjunct Professor of the Year by Greenville Tech. And we’ve just scratched the surface.
president and CEO, Integral Leaders in Health The first physician to serve as president in the 107-year history of the eight-hospital Greenville Health System, Taylor is former chair of the American Board of Surgery and past president of both the Southern Surgical Association and the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery, among his many, many accomplishments. He has received numerous awards for teaching and has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. At Greenville Health System, now part of Prisma Health, Taylor led the creation of a medical school and nursing school inside Prisma in conjunction with the two state universities. And now, he is on a new quest to improve health care. Today Taylor serves as leader of a new organization he helped found, which aims to revolutionize medical care to meet the needs of the individual patient by focusing on their outcomes.