MUSC plans more specialty care in Orangeburg

It has been a less than two years since the state’s only comprehensive academic health system acquired the former Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg and Calhoun counties, but its president says the expansion of specialty care services is just part of the system’s mission to improve patient care. The Medical University of South Carolina entered into a 99-year lease for $1 a year with the hospital in 2023. The partnership was deemed necessary to help the RMC, which was consistently operating with significant deficits, but that’s not the end of...