Prisma Health Tuomey
TAKING HEALTH NCARE TO EW HEIGHTS
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risma Health Tuomey Hospital is a part of the largest nonprofit health care company in South Carolina. The Prisma Health organization has given the hospital new opportunities to continue its commitment to clinical quality, increase access to care and focus on the patient experience. The campus, located in downtown Sumter, includes more than 1,700 team members and 200-plus practicing physicians representing 37 medical specialties. Facilities include a Level II nursery; an intensive care unit; 10 operating suites; centers for outpatient surgery, imaging and cancer treatment; an infusion center; an award-winning Wound Healing Center; as well as cardiac, speech, physical and occupational rehabilitative services. Our diagnostic capabilities feature comprehensive pathology services, interventional radiology and cardiac catheterization. Transitional care is provided through our Home Health Services program, as well as hospice and palliative care.
Here are just a few ways it serves the community:
The hospital became a satellite for Prisma Health—Midlands Children’s Hospital, providing pediatric care that includes support from a pediatric pharmacy, nutrition therapy, and the ability to keep smaller infants and those needing special care close to home and their families. With a generous grant from The Tuomey Foundation, the hospital purchased a $2 million “game-changing” daVinci Xi surgical robot. This technology provides Sumter surgeons an impactful new tool to make certain surgeries less invasive, which means less pain and a shorter recovery time for patients. The hospital achieved the prestigious Pathway to Excellence designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Tuomey Hospital is now recognized for encouraging nurses to be their best, to seek continuous learning and higher certification, to provide strong leadership and help that engagement flow into other departments. It demonstrates that we are committed to making sure nurses know they are valued by building an environment that empowers and engages them and all team members. Prisma Health strengthened its SmartExam virtual visit software, helping consumers feel better faster without having to visit a physician in person. The hospital purchased a new linear accelerator for the Cancer Treatment Center, expanding our already comprehensive radiation-oncology treatment capabilities. An Intensivist Care program is dramatically changing the way care is provided in the Intensive Care Unit, with measurable increases in patient quality of life and significant drops in patient mortality among our most critically ill population. Through the Palmetto Health-USC Medical Group, the hospital was able to add new medical specialists, including a pulmonologist, an infectious disease specialist and several primary care providers. We opened a satellite office in Manning, providing surgical and obstetrics care and making access easier for patients across the tri-county area. Tuomey Hospital became home to its first Prisma Health Residency Program: Four family medicine physicians will complete their residencies at Tuomey, in collaboration with Tandem Health, in an effort to bring greater access to primary care to residents of Sumter. In February 2020, the Heart Failure Clinic will be available at Palmetto Heart-Sumter, with three cardiologists rotating to work there each week.
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