Prisma Health
All-volunteer Habitat gets new partnership with Prisma
Clinton, S.C. – When Prisma Health volunteers began preparing on Thursday to paint primer over the sheetrock in the newest Habitat for Humanity home in Clinton, they saw notes of edification and praise written on walls in each room. “Thank you Lord for this bedroom,” one message read. “Philippians 4:4. I will rejoice!” “We…
Read More100 percent of Laurens County Hospital’s COVID patients unvaccinated, per CEO
From the Wednesday, Sept. 1 issue of The Laurens County Advertiser, Page 1 Laurens County, S.C. – The newest surge of COVID cases paired with a staff shortage is taking a heavy toll on healthcare workers at Prisma Health Laurens County Hospital. Late last week Prisma Health announced that the entrance way to the hospital…
Read MorePrisma Health limits visitation because of COVID case surge
Laurens County Hospital is among those which, starting today, Monday, Aug. 9, is returning to a limited visitation policy because of the increasing COVID-19 infections. Prisma Health will limit visitation at all hospital and clinical facilities. Adult inpatients, outpatients and ambulatory pediatric patients will be limited to one visitor. These restrictions also will continue: Visitors…
Read MoreFireworks safety encouraged by health care, fire officials
With the Fourth of July holiday comes the primary weekend for fireworks sales and activity of the year, and officials and physicians are warning to keep safety at the forefront of that and all other holiday plans. “The July 4 season every year we see a number of fireworks-related injuries or other injuries related to…
Read MorePrisma Health reduces hours, set to close The Ridge vaccine site
The CDC and the vaccine advisory committee has announced that children 12 and over can now receive the Pfizer vaccine, but Prisma Health began reducing hours at the Laurens site this week and it will close later this month. Prisma Health administers the Pfizer brand vaccine. Turnout has been lower at The Ridge in recent…
Read MoreThe new debate – Allergies or COVID?
April 15, 2021 Laurens, S.C. – Yellow pollen clouds aren’t quite as thick as they were a week or so ago but allergy season is still in full swing, and the “Is it COVID or is it allergies?” question is a common thread in conversations in workplaces and in doctors’ offices. Dr. Nate Benitez with…
Read MoreVaccine Dashboard’s early demographics not a surprise in first phase, per DHEC
In a South Carolina DHEC Vaccine Dashboard which launched on Monday, the demographics are showing a much higher rate of vaccines among women than men, and higher numbers of whites than minorities, but State Epidemiologist Linda Bell explained that it’s due to the fact that we’re still in the Phase 1a portion of the vaccination…
Read MorePrisma Health offers three free heart health webinars beginning Wednesday of this week
February is American Heart Month, and Prisma Health is offering a series of free online webinars including the first two planned for Wednesday and Friday of this week and Friday, Feb. 26, and led by Prisma cardiac specialists. Heart disease remains the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, and…
Read MoreWhile supplies last: Vaccines available at Ridge for those 65 and older
Updated story from the Feb. 3 issue of The Advertiser. Feb. 8, 2021 Laurens, S.C. – Before the pandemic, The Ridge at Laurens was typically filled with children in basketball and volleyball tournaments or adults in meetings in the conference room. Last Monday, however, it was filled instead with health professionals and many people 70…
Read MorePrisma gains staffing help through collaboration with state agencies, S.C. National Guard
Jan. 13, 2021 Clinton, S.C. – Like other hospitals across the Upstate of South Carolina, Prisma Health Laurens County is feeling the squeeze caused by the high numbers of COVID-19 patients, and four South Carolina National Guard medics have already been assisting at the local hospital. “Prisma Health is experiencing the effects of extreme…
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