Palmetto Baptist Medical Center places special emphasis on providing high quality healthcare in caring environments for all of its patients. This commitment is evidenced in the following services provided exclusively for women and children...

Women's Place - A community education and referral center, Women's Place is located at 1501 Sumter Street on the first floor. Office hours are from 8:30 am to 5 pm. Women's Place's mission is to provide women and their families the necessary tools and information they need to lead happy, active, healthy productive lives. This is accomplished through educational classes, workshops and seminars led by professionals throughout our community. Women's Place also provides resources and referrals to other services within the community. A community resource library is located within Women's Place with books on topics from cancer and heart disease in women to caring for an aging parent or parenting tips for raising a toddler or a teenager. Books are loaned out free for a two week period. Women's Place can also locate information through other sources on a variety of topics. A speakers' bureau is available to go to church, businesses, civic organizations to discuss various women's health issues.

 

The Birthplace - More than 3,000 babies are born each year in the Palmetto Baptist Medical Center Birthplace. The Birthplace consists of 20 labor-delivery-recovery-postpartum (LDRP) rooms, a 29-bed obstetrics unit, a two-bed triage and treatment room, a seven-bed high-risk maternity unit, a Caesarean delivery suite and a 40-bassinet nursery. The LDRP birthing suites, which are inconspicuously equipped with the highest quality technology, allow the patient to stay in one room during the entire time - from labor through delivery and until discharge. The Birthplace is also proud to boast state-of-the-art monitoring systems which continuously analyze both fetal and maternal vital data.

For more information on the Birthplace at Palmetto Baptist, click on the blue Birthplace tab at the top of the page.

Child & Adolescent Behavioral Care - The specialized team of child and adolescent mental health professionals from Behavioral Care assist families who have concerns about a child's emotional well-being. Through an individualized assessment, staff assists parents in making informed decisions about treatment opportunities which may include individual, family or marriage counseling; diagnostic psychological testing; intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs; inpatient crisis stabilization; support and therapy groups for patients and family members; and educational classes.

Got a question for our Behavioral Health Services team? Call us anytime at (803) 434-4813.

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit - The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) began in 1979 as a special care unit for sick newborns. In 1988, the special care nursery was granted Level III status, the highest level of care available.

The Palmetto Baptist NICU is a 20-isolette unit that averages nearly 400 admissions a year.