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Published on January 05, 2023

MUSC Hollings Cancer Network announces Tidelands Health as first full affiliate

 

Charleston, S.C., (Jan. 5, 2023) – MUSC Health and Tidelands Health are expanding their years-long collaboration with the naming of Tidelands Health Cancer Care Network as the first full MUSC Hollings Cancer Network affiliate. This affiliation expands the relationship between the two organizations by creating a community-based hub-and-spoke cancer care delivery model. Providing this fully integrated approach will offer additional clinical and direct patient benefits in addition to enhanced connectivity to MUSC’s research and education expertise.

logos of Tidelands Health MUSC Health“This cancer affiliation network is the first of its kind in South Carolina and is a full extension of the healing power offered through nationally designated cancer centers such as the Hollings Cancer Center,” said Ray DuBois, M.D., Ph.D., MUSC Hollings Cancer Center director. “Membership in this network is a testament to an organization’s commitment to bringing more care and treatment options and greater access to ground-breaking clinical trials to the communities they serve. In addition, this affiliation helps to ensure that the next generation of clinicians, scientists, and faculty learn from what we do today and then seek the next level in comprehensive cancer care tomorrow.”

Some specific cancer care benefits of the affiliation include:

  • Access to a full complement of community-based medical, surgical, and radiation oncology specialists
  • Care navigation support from initial diagnosis through treatment
  • Access to the latest evidence-based standards of care, nationally recognized cancer experts and genetic testing
  • Clinical trial and research study participation closer to home
  • Enhanced sharing of electronic medical records, ensuring that all multidisciplinary care team providers have access to the same medical records

Bruce Bailey, president and CEO of Tidelands Health, said participation in the new MUSC Hollings Cancer Network builds upon the broad complement of cancer care services already offered by the Tidelands Health Cancer Care Network, the Grand Strand area’s most advanced provider of cancer care.

“No one ever wants to hear the words, ‘You have cancer,’” Bailey said. “But that’s a reality thousands of people across our state face every year. Through the newly established MUSC Hollings Cancer Network, the highly skilled, compassionate experts at MUSC Health and Tidelands Health are standing together to help our cancer patients become cancer survivors.”

“I’m very excited about how this affiliation uses a model that delivers on the ‘best care is local’ concept,” said David Zaas, M.D., MUSC Health-Charleston Division CEO. “Health care is transforming, and by working together even more, we are enabling high-quality, well-coordinated and compassionate care for those we all serve. As a higher education institution, we are simultaneously demonstrating to future health care providers and researchers the power of these collaborations.” 

MUSC Hollings Cancer Center is South Carolina’s only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center, with the largest academic-based cancer research program in the state. The cancer center is comprised of more than 120 faculty cancer scientists and 20 academic departments dedicated to preventing and reducing the cancer burden across South Carolina. Hollings offers state-of-the-art diagnostic capabilities, therapies and surgical techniques within multidisciplinary clinics that include surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation therapists, radiologists, pathologists, psychologists and other specialists equipped for the full range of cancer care, including more than 200 clinical trials across South Carolina.

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Tidelands Health, in collaboration with MUSC Health, is the region’s largest health care provider, serving the Carolinas at four hospitals and more than 70 outpatient locations. More than 2,500 employee, physician and volunteer partners work side by side with our communities to transform the health of our region – promoting wellness, preventing illness, encouraging recovery and restoring health.