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Kathy Petty Mangum

Dateline – Laurens, South Carolina Kathy Petty Mangum, age 66, of Laurens, SC, wife of Mike Mangum, passed away, Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at Prisma Health – Greenville Memorial Hospital. Born October 1, 1956 in Lockhart, SC, and was a daughter of the late William J. Petty, Sr. and Lona McCall Petty. Kathy retired from…

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Maxcy Patterson Hunter, Sr.

Maxcy Patterson Hunter passed peacefully in the company of his family on June 22, 2023, at age 96. A dedicated elder of Ora ARP Church, Max loved his Lord, his family, his Ora church family and his community. He was never happier than when he was on the farm in Ora, driving farm equipment and…

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OB physician shortage pauses labor and deliveries at Prisma Health Laurens

Laurens County, South Carolina – Prisma Health Laurens County Hospital will temporarily shift labor and deliveries to Prisma Health’s Patewood Hospital beginning Monday, May 8. The pause is because of a short-term shortage of OB/GYN physicians at Laurens County Hospital. During this temporary pause in services, Prisma Health will transition patient deliveries from Prisma Health…

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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…

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Prisma 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…

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Fireworks 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…

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The 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…

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