The Medical University of South Carolina on Monday completed its purchase of several hospitals and an emergency room in the Midlands, The Huron Daily Tribune reports.
MUSC bought the facilities from LifePoint Health, a for-profit company based in Tennessee. The state’s largest hospital system, Prisma Health, tried to buy them but got an unfavorable court ruling and pushback from lawmakers on whether they would control too much of South Carolina’s health care system.
The expansion allows MUSC to add more than 400 new hospital beds to its 1,600-bed system. Read more.
