Thank you to our team members

Our people make the real difference at Tidelands Health.

Every day, we receive heartfelt thank yous, emails and even handwritten letters of thanks from our patients for the high-quality, compassionate care our team members provide.

"I am proudest when I have a friend or acquaintance come up to me in the street and tell me what great service they had at Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital or Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital,” said Francis “Jeepy” Ford Jr., a member of the health system’s board of trustees.

Team Tidelands is the epitome of what a care team should be: skilled, dedicated and passionate. Our 2,500 physician, employee and volunteer partners are also your neighbors, fellow church members, coaches of your kids’ sports teams and more.

Our team members not only serve the community – we are also part of the community. Even though our health system continues to expand, we remain rooted in our community-first approach.

“I think the real legacy of Tidelands Health will be the people, the culture, the leaders that we develop,” said Gayle Resetar, executive vice president and chief operating officer. “We’ll continue to grow to meet the needs of the patients where they are. We’ve laid some great groundwork for that in the future. We’ve got ourselves really well positioned for the long-term future. We’ve maintained a certain culture within our organization that cares about the community, and we care about expanding services and continuing to grow as we need to.”

Thanks to Team Tidelands, our health system has been repeatedly recognized by Becker’s Healthcare as a top place to work in health care and by Gallagher as a high-performance employer.

“I care about people,” said Gloria Washington, a certified pharmacy technician who has worked for our health system for 41 years and who learned directly from our first pharmacist, Dr. Charles F. Cooper. “It makes me feel good at the end of the day when I go home. I may not have direct contact with the patients, but I have helped somebody feel better and I have given somebody some confidence that they are going to make it.”

Some of our team members and board members have direct bloodlines to those pioneering founders, continuing not only our health system’s legacy but also their family legacy.

Robert Jones, vice chairman of our board of trustees, feels like he’s come full circle with our health system -- from being born at Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital in 1964 to recently having knee surgery there. The son of the hospital’s second radiologist and 13^th physician, Jones recalls tagging along with his dad to the hospital on weekends.

Now, the younger Jones is proud to help chart the health system’s future.

“At the end of the day, what matters to people is who it is you’re dealing with every day, whether you’re in the hospital bed or you’re going to see your physician,” Jones said. “It’s the quality of the people we have. I like that we’ve been able to be independent and keep that local touch and local feel and provide the care that people want and deserve in every aspect from birth to now.”