| AnMed Health Medical Center | |
| AnMed Health | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 800 N. Fant St. Anderson, South Carolina, United States |
| Organization | |
| Funding | Non-profit hospital |
| Services | |
| Beds | 461 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1908 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.anmedhealth.org |
| Lists | Hospitals in South Carolina |
AnMed Health Medical Center is a 461-bed acute care hospital at 800 N. Fant St. in Anderson, South Carolina. The Medical Center is the anchor facility for AnMed Health, South Carolina's largest independent, not-for-profit health system.
Services provided at the Medical Center include open heart surgery, vascular surgery, general surgery, emergency/trauma medicine, a stroke/neurological center, and diagnostic MRI, CT and laboratory medicine. Other facilities located at AnMed Health's medical center campus include Pediatric Therapy Works, a speech, occupational and physical therapy program for children; and Minor Care, a walk-in facility that treats non life-threatening ailments such as influenza, broken bones and minor nosebleeds.
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Virginia "Jennie" Gilmer is widely recognized as the founder of the Anderson County Hospital, which later became AnMed Health. In 1903, during the birth of her second child, Gilmer vowed that if she lived she would make sure a hospital was built in Anderson. Gilmer survived the delivery, and in May 1904, she and a small group of women started a fundraising campaign for the hospital.
The Anderson County Hospital Association was organized and incorporated in 1906, and fundraising efforts increased under the association’s president, Richard S. Ligon. Anderson County Hospital opened its doors on April 20, 1908, and admitted its first patient a day later.[1]
AnMed Health Medical Center is accredited by the Joint Commission.