Prisma Health

Prisma Health is a not-for-profit health organization in South Carolina, formed by the merging of Palmetto Health and the Greenville Health System in November 2017.

Prisma Health logo
Greenville Memorial Hospital houses the organization's headquarters
Prisma Health Baptist

Its headquarters are on the property of Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville.[1]

Areas of specialty at Prisma Health include:

  • Bariatric surgery
  • Behavioral care
  • Breast care
  • Cancer care
  • Geriatrics
  • Heart and vascular care (including the Advanced Heart Health Center and the Midlands' only LVAD program)
  • Musculoskeletal
  • Neuroscience
  • Obstetrics (including high-risk pregnancy and genetic counseling, and the area's only two Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Units)
  • Orthopedics
  • Pediatrics
  • Surgery (including the Midlands' regions' first da Vinci® robotic surgical systems)
  • Trauma care (region's only Level I trauma center and the first Level 2 pediatric trauma center)
  • Women's care

History

The Greenville Health Authority (GHA) owns healthcare facilities managed by Prisma Health,[2] which leases and operates them as Prisma Health-Upstate (a lease with Upstate Affiliate Organization was made in 2016). Greenville-based members of the South Carolina General Assembly, stated in 2021 that they wished for GHA to directly supervise and manage the Prisma-run facilities as well as to make it clear that the GHA and not Prisma has authority over the doctors.[3] However, Act 432 under which GHA operates gives no such authority to the GHA Board of Trustees. The GHA Board has only the authority to assess the compliance of Prisma Health - Upstate with the terms of the Lease. Operations of Prisma Health - Upstate, including the supervision of its employees and physicians, are the responsibility of the Management and Board of Prisma Health.

Hospitals

Specialty Hospitals

The Specialty Hospitals operated by Prisma Health include:

  • Prisma Health Children's Hospital - Midlands (Children's Hospital located on Richland Campus, Columbia)
  • Prisma Health Children's Hospital - Upstate
  • Prisma Health Heart Hospital (Cardiac-Care Facility located on Richland Campus)
  • Prisma Health Richland Springs Hospital (psychiatric and addiction services)
  • Prisma Health Marshall I. Pickens Hospital (care for psychiatric, emotional and psychological disorders)

Attempted Acquisition

Prisma Health and LifePoint Health announced that they have signed an agreement for Prisma Health–Midlands to acquire KershawHealth in Camden, South Carolina, and Providence Health in Columbia, South Carolina.[4]

A part of LifePoint Health, KershawHealth consists of facilities in Camden, Elgin, Lugoff and Kershaw, including a 119-bed Medical Center and a 20-bed Geriatric Psychiatric Unit in Camden, Outpatient Center and Urgent Care in Elgin, Sleep Diagnostics Center, and a Physical Therapy Unit.

Providence Health consists of two hospitals in Columbia, a freestanding Emergency Room in Fairfield County and multiple physician practices, rehabilitation centers, sleep centers, imaging and diagnostics labs, and other services. Providence Health’s downtown Columbia hospital specializes in high acuity care, while its Northeast Columbia campus recently transitioned from a specialty facility to a full-service community hospital.

The acquisition was dropped due to significant delays and challenges by the Federal Trade Commission and state regulatory authorities. The hospitals were then acquired by the Medical University of South Carolina.[5] [6]

References
  1. "Contact". Prisma Health. Retrieved 2021-10-18. Prisma Health Corporate Office 701 Grove Rd., Greenville, SC, 29605 (Under the tab "Hospital Campus Phone Numbers") - address matches that of the whole Greenville Memorial Hospital complex: "701 Grove Rd. Greenville, SC 29605"
  2. Mitchell, Anna B. (2021-02-21). "Greenville Health Authority removes Prisma-linked president as hospital lease review nears". Post and Courier. Retrieved 2021-11-20. The changes are significant in that the GHA board owns the facilities from which Prisma runs healthcare in the Upstate.
  3. Navarro, Marcus (2021-04-21). "Greenville lawmakers want a more "proactive" Health Authority". Greenville News. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
  4. "Prisma Health to acquire KershawHealth and Providence Health". Prisma Health. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  5. "Prisma Health drops plan to buy Providence Hospitals, Kershaw Health". WLTX. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  6. "Agreement for Prisma Health to acquire KershawHealth and Providence Health terminated". Prisma Health. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
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