Savannah Chamber

59 Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce 2019 Economic Trends 14 Industry: Health Care Two nationally recognized medical centers deliver top quality health care in the city: Memorial University Medical Center and the St. Joseph's/Candler Health System. These centers, and the advanced medical specialties they offer, attract people from all over southeast Georgia and the southern coastal area of South Carolina. The medical facilities are also the top two private nonmanufacturing employers in the metropolitan area. Ambulatory health care services accounted for an estimated $1.6 billion of personal income in the Savannah MSA in 2017 or 8.8% of total regional output. According to the Georgia Department of Labor, Candler Hospital Inc. and Savannah Health Services, LLC are ranked as two of ten largest employers in the Savannah MSA as of the second quarter of 2018. Memorial University Medical Center www.memorialhealth.com Memorial Health in Savannah, Georgia, is a two-state healthcare organization that serves 35 counties in southeast Georgia and southern South Carolina. The system includes Memorial University Medical Center, a 612-bed academic hospital, as well as primary and specialty care physician practices, a major medical education program, business and industry services, and a 24- hour nurse call center. Memorial houses a number of services that are not available at any other hospitals in the region, including a Level I trauma center, a children's hospital, and a Level III neonatal intensive care nursery. Memorial is also training the next generation of doctors in its six physician residency programs and by serving as the Savannah campus of Mercer University School of Medicine. Memorial has earned local, state, and national accolades for its exceptional outcomes and commitment to patient safety. On February 1, 2018, Memorial Health joined HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services with 178 hospitals located in 20 U.S. states and in the United Kingdom. St. Joseph's/Candler Health System www.sjchs.com St. Joseph's/Candler is a fully integrated health system – the premier health provider in the region offering advanced, high- quality care. St. Joseph's/Candler Health System began in 1997 when two Savannah hospitals partnered to create the largest faith-based nonprofit health institution in Savannah and its surrounding areas. Its two anchor hospitals, St. Joseph's Hospital and Candler Hospital, have total capacities of 330 beds and 384 beds respectively. St. Joseph's/Candler (SJ/C) offers primary care across the region. The SJ/C Medical Group provides patients with a medical home and a physician who is intimately acquainted with their medical history. The health system also features more than a dozen specialized inpatient and outpatient services including those for women and children, oncology, pulmonology, cardiovascular care, digestive disease services, neurological/neurosurgical care, and orthopedics. The health system's footprint continues to expand. A new, 170,000-square-foot hospital will open in Pooler in March 2019 and offer a broad range of medical services for the growing population in west Chatham and nearby counties, creating a one-stop, convenient healthcare destination redefining the healthcare experience through imagination, innovation, and modern technology. SJ/C will also build a regional medical campus in Bluffton, SC, that will greatly expand services and access to healthcare for that rapidly growing community. The campus will be built at Buckwalter Place in two phases during the next six years. SJ/C has provided medical services in Bluffton and Hilton Head for the past 16 years, and this development will consolidate these medical services in one location that is at the center of growth in Bluffton. White it had the top specialists and latest technology, SJ/C has a robust community outreach program core to its mission to care for the uninsured and underinsured. In 2012, the health system received the Foster McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Services from the American Hospital Association Source: Revised 12/06/2018 from public relations offices at MUMC and SJCHS.

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