CLINICAL

MUSC Medical Center (rev. date: 9/07)

The MUSC Medical Center currently has 596 licensed beds in four inpatient facilities—Medical University Hospital, MUSC Children's Hospital, Storm Eye Institute, and the Institute of Psychiatry. For the 10th consecutive year, MUSC was selected for the National Research Corporation’s Consumer Choice Award in 2007-08. The Children’s Hospital ranks in the top 30 nationally for overall pediatric care and in the top 9 for pediatric emergency services in Child magazine’s biannual survey (Feb. 2007). In addition, the National Association of Children’s Hospitals has recognized MUSC’s Medically Fragile Children’s Program as a national model. The Storm Eye Institute is the only comprehensive eye center in South Carolina. The Institute of Psychiatry includes a 6-story building housing a number of behavioral and clinical programs connected to a 105-bed psychiatric hospital with special facilities for children, adolescents, elderly and individuals with addictive disorders. The Medical Center has a comprehensive range of specialized care centers, such as the Heart and Vascular Center, Digestive Disease Center, Hollings Cancer Center, Transplant Center, Center for Alcohol and Drug Programs, and a Level I Trauma Center. . In FY2006 the American Society for Bariatric Surgery named MUSC a Center of Excellence, and the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients ranked the Cardiac Transplant Program 1st in the Southeast and 2nd in the nation in one-year survival rates. Medical Center data for the year ending June 30, 2007 include: 

           In October 2007 MUSC will occupy the first phase of a major project to replace the Medical University Hospital, which opened in 1955. Phase I of the new University Hospital is a structure of approximately 641,000 ft2, providing state-of-the-art surgical, medical and diagnostic facilities with 156 additional licensed beds that plans to open for patient care in January 2008. It will initially support the clinical programs of the Cardiology/Cardiovascular Surgery Services and the Digestive Disease Center. Phase 1 includes a new central energy plant as well as significant infrastructure and roadway improvements. Special features in the new facility include a patient and family resource center, dedicated spaces for academic and other clinical care teams, and an enhanced automated records system. For Phase II, an innovative partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the local Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center is being explored at the local and national levels (‘the Charleston Model’). Ultimately, the entire replacement hospital will occupy approximately one million ft2 and cost about a billion dollars.

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