HEEDING
emergencies arise. quality health care closer to home.”
Roper St. Francis Healthcare, The Mount Pleasant hospital will
which celebrates its 10th house 85 inpatient beds, 24-hour
anniversary in August 2008, emergency care, women’s services
THE CALL
was born in 1998 when including high-tech, comfortable
Roper and Bon Secours St. labor and delivery suites, inpatient
Francis Hospitals combined and outpatient surgery, intensive
to create an integrated health and critical care units, diagnostic
ROPER ST. FRANCIS
system. These two paragons of imaging and laboratory services as
medicine have provided more well as a pharmacy.
MOUNT PLEASANT
than 150 years of caring and Crimminger explains that Roper
HOSPITAL
compassion in the Carolina St. Francis is building “the hospital
Lowcountry. Currently, the sys- of the future” with the help of
tem offers 657 beds and more architects FreemanWhite, the oldest
I
T WAS ONLY A MATTER OF than 20 facilities in four counties. practicing firm in North Carolina.
time before the exponential The construction manager for the
population growth East of the
“... many East Cooper
project, BE&K Building Group of
Cooper would require the con-
residents live 20 to 30
Charlotte, brings an established
struction of a second major medical track record for serving healthcare,
facility in
BY STACY E. DOMINGO
minutes away from the
commercial, industrial and insti-
the area. tutional clients throughout the
The new Roper St. Francis Mount
nearest hospital ...”
Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.
Pleasant Hospital will be built on 78 The Roper St. Francis Mount
acres of land at the intersection of “We are thrilled to bring a Pleasant Hospital will provide
Highway 17 North and Faison Road new hospital to Mount Pleasant much-needed medical and urgent
in the Carolina Park Development. and surrounding communities care to more than 80,000 people liv-
Construction will get underway in East of the Cooper,” says Patricia ing in and around the East Cooper
2008. The facility is scheduled to Crimminger, director of Corporate area. To keep track of the progress
open in November 2010. Communications for Roper St. of the project or to learn more
“It’s vitally important that as any Francis Healthcare. “This provides about Roper St. Francis Healthcare,
community grows, its core services area residents with convenient, high visit www.rsfh.com.
grow with it,” says
David Dunlap,
The new Roper St. Francis Mount Pleasant Hos-
president and chief
pital is scheduled to open by the end of 2010.
executive office of
Roper St. Francis
Healthcare.
Mount Pleasant
has seen an explo-
sion in growth over
the last 15 years,
with the popula-
tion center shifting
to the north. As a
result, many East
Cooper residents
live 20 to 30
minutes away from
the nearest hospi-
tal, a situation with
potentially tragic
implications when
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