CHARLESTON, South Carolina (September 27, 2021) – At MUSC Health, the safety of patients, families, healthcare team members, students, faculty and staff remains the number one priority. MUSC’s Public Affairs and Media Relations Department (PAMR) regularly issues COVID-19 updates on Monday and Thursday of each week. If a federal or state holiday falls on a Monday, a report will be released the next day. Please read the entire report; information can change quickly.
The way forward / recovery
Vaccinate children
“It’s really exciting, but it was a very preliminary stage. It wasn’t an endorsement. What the expert wants parents to know about the vaccine for young children.
COVID-19 VACCINATION UPDATE
MUSC Health has vaccine appointments for all eligible people aged 12 and over. Eligible individuals can visit muschealth.org/get-vaccine to make an appointment; Although appointments are encouraged, walk-in visits are welcome at all MUSC COVID-19 vaccination clinics. View information and a video with instructions on how to schedule an immunization appointment. The community is encouraged to monitor muschealth.org for COVID-19 vaccine availability criteria, updates, and FAQs.
For more information on the public and community vaccination sites operated by MUSC Health statewide, please visit https://vaxlocator.dhec.sc.gov/. Appointments are encouraged, but walk-in visits are welcome.
Homebound people who require home COVID-19 immunization services should contact DHEC’s COVID-19 Vaccine Information Line by calling 1-866-365-8110. Please note that community members should not contact suppliers directly. All calls must be routed through DHEC’s COVID-19 Vaccine Information Line to access this program.
MUSC Health vaccination administration data is available upon request.
MUSC Health COVID-19 vaccination wait for all members of the healthcare team
All MUSC Health leaders and members of the healthcare team are now required to have the COVID-19 vaccine. Religious and medical exemptions may apply for some members of the care team. All new members of the healthcare team should receive a single dose vaccine before starting work or the first dose of a two-dose vaccine before starting work. The second dose must be completed within three weeks as a condition of use. As of July 1, over 99.9% of MUSC healthcare team members have complied with this policy. MUSC Health has established this policy for the safety of our healthcare team, our patients, and their families and visitors.
FOR UP-TO-DATE DATA:
Plateau forward?
For the first time in a long time, six of the seven COVID indicators for Tri-county are turning green. But are we moving towards the kind of plateau that we see elsewhere?
The MUSC COVID-19 epidemiological intelligence project is a digital dashboard that provides leading indicators related to the COVID-19 outbreak to enable informed decisions. Current situation assessments for MUSC Health – Charleston (Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties), MUSC Health Florence and the MUSC Health Lancaster divisions are available on this site.
USEFUL WEB LINKS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC:
general informations
general informations
Test options information
MUSC Virtual Emergency Care
COVID-19 vaccination
MUSC COVID-19 mobile diagnostic test
MUSC Health offers COVID-19 testing in hospitals, clinics and other places. Patients are encouraged to contact their providers through MUSC MyChart if they require testing services. The current turnaround time is approximately 24 hours for test results. A full list of testing information is available on this website: musc.co/testing.
MUSC Health, in partnership with the state legislature, also operates mobile testing and collection sites in rural and underserved areas across the state, for walk-in and car patients, who are advertised locally in partnership with municipalities, community organizations and businesses. Pre-screening is not required and there is no cost to patients. Patients will be contacted within two days with their test results, if not earlier. Patients are requested to bring photo ID and insurance card if they have one. The CARES Act requires MUSC to bill insurance providers if patients have insurance. Patients can email [email protected] if they have any questions regarding their results. If they don’t have an email address, they can call 843-985-8888.
Sites may close earlier or operate with reduced hours if weather conditions become unsafe for healthcare team members or if the volume exceeds the site’s security capacity.
Information related to Healthy Me – Healthy SC, free statewide mobile test sites for each week can be found here.
COVID-19 stories for follow-up
COVID during pregnancy
When a pregnant woman in Myrtle Beach contracted COVID, she feared the worst. Over a month later, her family have a poignant story to tell – with a happy ending.
COVID drug trial
A clinical trial is recruiting people with mild COVID-19 to see if any of the three existing drugs work against the disease.
100% delta
The Delta variant appeared in every COVID sample during the last sequencing at MUSC. What does this mean for the future?
Basic statistics / COVID-19 positive cases
Previously reported data points, such as total number of COVID-19 community screening tests performed by MUSC Health-Charleston and number of positive cases determined through these tests, number of telehealth screenings, total number of samples collected on various mobile sites, where the number of COVID-19 positive MUSC care team members are available upon request. Information on vaccinations can be found at the top of this press release.
- Total number of COVID patients (MUSC Health – Charleston): 80
- MUSC Health is monitoring these numbers to determine if we have current and future capacity in terms of healthcare providers, supplies, ventilators and PPE. The reported numbers are consistent with the modeling and expectations that MUSC Health will have the appropriate resources to manage these patients.
- Of the 80 COVID-related hospital patients currently at the MUSC Health-Charleston site, 36 are in intensive care MUSC Health COVID-19, with 27 of the total 80 hospital patients currently receiving respiratory care for disease progression.
- Of the 80 patients hospitalized at MUSC Health – Charleston, 9 pediatric patients are at MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital. Five pediatric patients are in pediatric intensive care and 4 of these patients are receiving respiratory care for disease progression.
- Status update for unvaccinated vs vaccinated inpatients: Approximately 78% of current inpatients were not vaccinated on admission.
- Please note that MUSC Health hospitals often have full intensive care units. This may require our teams to take care of patients in other units of the hospitals until beds in the intensive care units are available. This can vary from hour to hour, in COVID and non-COVID time. It is correct to say that we are busier than usual at the moment.
For specific information about MUSC Health Florence or Marion Medical Centers, please contact Kim Geiger at [email protected].
For more information on MUSC Health Chester or Lancaster Medical Centers, please contact Ashley Shannon at [email protected].
For more information on MUSC Health Columbia Medical Centers Downtown or Northeast and MUSC Health Fairfield Emergency and Imaging, please contact Amber Fields at [email protected].
For more information on MUSC Health Kershaw Medical Center, please contact Karlin Ferguson at [email protected].
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About MUSC
Founded in 1824 in Charleston, MUSC is home to the South’s oldest medical school as well as the state’s only integrated academic health sciences center, with a unique responsibility of serving the state through education. , research and patient care. Each year, MUSC educates and trains more than 3,000 students and nearly 800 residents in six colleges: dentistry, graduate studies, health professions, medicine, nursing and pharmacy. MUSC provided more than $ 271 million in biomedical research funds in fiscal 2020, continuing to lead the state in securing funding from the National Institutes of Health, with more than $ 129.9 million. For more information on academic programs, visit musc.edu.
As the Clinical Health System of the University of South Carolina Medicine, MUSC Health is dedicated to providing the highest quality and safest patient care while training generations of compassionate and knowledgeable healthcare providers to serving the people of South Carolina and beyond. Nearly 25,000 healthcare team members provide patient care in 14 hospitals with approximately 2,500 beds and 5 additional hospitals in development, over 300 telehealth sites and nearly 750 care locations located in the Lowcountry regions , Midlands, Pee Dee and Upstate of South Carolina. . In 2021, for the seventh year in a row, US News & World Report named MUSC Health the No.1 Hospital in South Carolina. To learn more about clinical patient services, visit muschealth.org.
MUSC and its affiliates have collective annual budgets of $ 4.4 billion. The more than 25,000 members of the MUSC team include professors, physicians, specialty providers and world-class scientists who deliver revolutionary education, research, technology and patient care.
