Savannah Chamber

38 Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce 2018 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 $1.4 billion of personal income in the Savannah MSA in 2015, or 8.2% of total regional output. According to the Georgia Department of Labor, Candler Hospital Inc. and Memorial University Medical Center are ranked as two of ten largest employers in the Savannah MSA in 2017. Memorial University Medical Center www.memorialhealth.com Memorial Health in Savannah, Georgia, is a nonprofit, 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. With approximately 4,450 Team Members and more than 635 medical staff physicians, Memorial is the largest healthcare provider in southeast Georgia. St. Joseph's/Candler Health System www.sjchs.com Two Savannah hospitals partnered in 1997 to create the largest faith-based nonprofit health institution in the region, St. Joseph's/Candler Health System. Its two anchor hospitals, St. Joseph's Hospital and Candler Hospital, have total capacities of 330 beds and 384 beds respectively. SJ/C offers primary care and 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. Top tertiary care is provided at its Centers of Excellence: § Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer and Research Pavilion § The Heart Hospital § Mary Telfair Women's Hospital § Institute for Advanced Bone and Joint Surgery § The Institute for Neurosciences SJ/C has achieved network accreditation status – a rare honor – in addition to its accreditation by the Joint Commission. It is the only health provider in the region to have achieved both network accreditation status and MAGNET status for nursing excellence, which it just earned for the fourth time. The Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion is part of the National Cancer Institute's Community Oncology Research Pavilion is part of the National Cancer Institute's Oncology Research Program. SJ/C has earned the highest award for stroke care by the American Stroke Association. SJ/C received the 2012 Foster McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Services from the American Hospital Association. Source: Revised 11/07/2017 from public relations offices at MUMC and SJCHS.

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