General Info

Founded in 1914, Palmetto Health Baptist is one of the leading hospitals in the Southeast that provides health care services. It operates more than 480 acute care beds with over 2,000 employees and nearly 750 physicians. The hospital also offers prevention services for ventilator-associated pneumonia ad serves more than 225,000 patients annually. Palmetto Health Baptist additionally operates a more than 40,000-square-foot outpatient services facility and over 4,000-square-foot diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization laboratory. The hospital practices in the fields of surgery, obstetrics, emergency medicine, imaging and diagnostics. It is a part of Palmetto Health, which is one of the leading nonprofit health care hospitals in South Carolina. Its service areas include Anderson, Calhoun, Clarendon, Fairfield, Greenville, Kershaw, Lee, Pickens, Richland, Spartanburg and Sumter counties in South Carolina. Palmetto Health Baptist is located in Columbia.