The following message was sent to all employees on Friday August 6th. The action clears the way for work to continue on our goal of completing and submitting the document needed for accreditation. I will keep you up to date on our progress.
In the first sentence I call it an historic day. That is true, but it has been in the making for decades and is the work of prior administrators like Bob Toomey and Frank Pinckney as well as many former medical staff leaders like Drs. DeLoach and Ashmore and many others. For all of their work and vision, I am grateful.
Please feel free to comment about this announcement or anything else that may be on your mind.
This is an historic day for both Greenville Hospital System and the state of South Carolina. Earlier today, both Boards of Trustees of Greenville Hospital System and University of South Carolina voted to approve a plan to expand medical education at GHS to include first- and second-year medical students. As you know, approximately one third of USC’s third- and fourth-year students already train at GHS.
This expansion is good news for our community because it will help mitigate the long-standing physician shortage in the state and improve health care across South Carolina, particularly in rural areas. It will also spur job growth and help make Greenville and the entire state more attractive to corporations and businesses considering expansion or relocation.
For GHS, this expansion helps reinforce our mission to heal compassionately, teach innovatively and improve constantly. Education has always been an integral part of our mission. Many of you know that GHS accepted its first nursing student just three days after Greenville General Hospital first opened its doors in 1912. In the nearly 100 years that have followed, GHS has helped train thousands of physicians, nurses and other health-care professionals.
In the August issue of The View, I’ve used my column, The Riordan Report, to further describe how our commitment to academics is good for both GHS and our community. What I wrote applies to today’s announcement as well as to our many other academic programs and initiatives. I encourage you to look for that article when you receive your issue of The View.
In recent months, I’ve talked and written about the importance of balancing current organizational challenges with longer term investments in our future to ensure that GHS continues to be a strong health care resource and partner with and for our community. Today’s vote represents one of those future-focused decisions – building on a solid historical foundation in academics and consistent with the GHS Strategic Plan. I want to assure you that a rigorous planning process took place before the decision to expand was made. This process included a detailed feasibility study, which determined expansion is the most efficient and cost-effective way to generate more physicians in South Carolina, as well as development of a sound business plan to ensure financial support for the expansion.
In the first sentence I call it an historic day. That is true, but it has been in the making for decades and is the work of prior administrators like Bob Toomey and Frank Pinckney as well as many former medical staff leaders like Drs. DeLoach and Ashmore and many others. For all of their work and vision, I am grateful.
Please feel free to comment about this announcement or anything else that may be on your mind.
This is an historic day for both Greenville Hospital System and the state of South Carolina. Earlier today, both Boards of Trustees of Greenville Hospital System and University of South Carolina voted to approve a plan to expand medical education at GHS to include first- and second-year medical students. As you know, approximately one third of USC’s third- and fourth-year students already train at GHS.
This expansion is good news for our community because it will help mitigate the long-standing physician shortage in the state and improve health care across South Carolina, particularly in rural areas. It will also spur job growth and help make Greenville and the entire state more attractive to corporations and businesses considering expansion or relocation.
For GHS, this expansion helps reinforce our mission to heal compassionately, teach innovatively and improve constantly. Education has always been an integral part of our mission. Many of you know that GHS accepted its first nursing student just three days after Greenville General Hospital first opened its doors in 1912. In the nearly 100 years that have followed, GHS has helped train thousands of physicians, nurses and other health-care professionals.
In the August issue of The View, I’ve used my column, The Riordan Report, to further describe how our commitment to academics is good for both GHS and our community. What I wrote applies to today’s announcement as well as to our many other academic programs and initiatives. I encourage you to look for that article when you receive your issue of The View.
In recent months, I’ve talked and written about the importance of balancing current organizational challenges with longer term investments in our future to ensure that GHS continues to be a strong health care resource and partner with and for our community. Today’s vote represents one of those future-focused decisions – building on a solid historical foundation in academics and consistent with the GHS Strategic Plan. I want to assure you that a rigorous planning process took place before the decision to expand was made. This process included a detailed feasibility study, which determined expansion is the most efficient and cost-effective way to generate more physicians in South Carolina, as well as development of a sound business plan to ensure financial support for the expansion.
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