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Insurance Time for 2020

The open enrollment period for signing up and purchasing private health insurance on the ACA Marketplace begins on Friday, November 1 and runs through Sunday, December 15, 2019. The ACA’s income-based subsidies on premiums are still intact, which means many South Carolinians will again be eligible for zero-premium bronze

Live Healthy SC Award Winners Announced at October Annual Meeting

The Live Healthy SC 2019 Annual Meeting was a chance for a diverse array of leaders and organizations from across the state working together to get updated on the Live Healthy SC State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) and State Health Assessment and to celebrate the health improvement work that supports

Improving Health Literacy in SC

The South Carolina Hospital Association is partnering with the University of South Carolina Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior (HPEB) to improve health literacy in our state.Health literacy, different from general literacy, is a measure of an individual’s ability to process and understand the basic health information and services

Standing Tall for Hospital Workers

The threat of violence is, unfortunately, both a major safety issue and a daily fact of life for healthcare workers in hospitals and health systems across South Carolina.Studies show that healthcare workers are significantly more likely to be the victims of violence and abuse than workers in other industries, and

Fighting Burnout

As a newly graduated nurse, Dr. Teresa Stephens learned lessons familiar to many of her colleagues: The combination of high stress, long hours and harshly critical co-workers caused her to leave after one year. Unfortunately, her second job wasn’t much different, but that time Stephens made a life-changing decision. “I

Drive to Zero Harm Harm Leadership Award

The South Carolina Hospital Association (SCHA) is pleased to announce Scott R. Isaacks as the winner of our inaugural Drive to Zero Harm Leadership Award, a recognition given to the South Carolina healthcare leader who demonstrates extraordinary commitment to creating a culture of high reliability to eliminate harm from all

The 2019 Zero Harm Awards

The South Carolina Hospital Association (SCHA) is pleased to announce that we have recognized a record-breaking 57 SC hospitals who collectively won 230 Certified Zero Harm Awards this year. These awards collectively represent 148,173 central line infection-free days and 19,771 surgical procedures with no medically caused harm and illustrate the

Responding to Burnout

Working Well, a program that helps employers develop a strategic plan to impact employee health by focusing on evidence-based policy, systems, and environmental changes, was recently awarded a grant from The Duke Endowment to incorporate an integrated, multi-layered approach to reducing burnout and improving worker wellbeing.At a time when over

A National Leader

Willis Tisdale is a small-town South Carolinian—which is why he likes working at Shriners Hospitals for Children—Greenville. It’s a small hospital and workplace, but also a caring and important one. People know one another and are sensitive to personal dynamics and relationships in a way that’s comfortable for the longtime

Healthy Conservation

Earlier this year, employees from Prisma Health took time off from their day jobs of providing quality healthcare to give back to the community in a different kind of healthy way—by working to conserve the environment. A volunteer day was set up for all employees who wanted to take part,

MUSC Embraces Hospital Safe Zones Campaign

MUSC Health has rolled out a host of new workplace violence initiatives, including an adaptation of our Hospital Safe Zones campaign that is freely available to all hospitals and health systems. Posters featuring MUSC Health CEO Dr. Patrick Cawley, nurse manager Kim Curnell-Pean and April Roscoe, manager of the safe

Hurricane Season 2019

With the first hurricane of the 2019 season named and tracked last week, it's that time of year when South Carolina hospitals are giving a final check-up to their emergency preparedness and procedures. Hospital leaders in our state remember 2018’s Hurricanes Florence and Michael all too well, and they know

Lessons from Last Year

Even with the best possible planning, an actual hospital evacuation can be a logistical nightmare, according to Tidelands Health Chief Operating Officer Gayle Resetar. During Hurricane Florence, roughly 150 patients were relocated from facilities in Waccamaw and Georgetown. And then Georgetown had to be evacuated a second time because of

Taking Caring for the Community to the Next Level

The very concept of human trafficking, the official term for human slavery, can often feel like an anachronism in the modern-day United States. Surely that’s something in the distant past, or at the very least limited to the distant corners of the globe, right?But the fact is, humans, particularly women

Looking for South Carolina’s Zero Harm Leaders

SCHA recently launched its Drive to Zero Harm Leadership Award, a new honor that recognizes and celebrates leaders who strive for Zero Harm at every level of their organization. Because the award is new, we had Karen Reynolds, our Director of Innovation and Acceleration, answer a few questions about how