MUSC Health is the clinical enterprise of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), the state’s only publicly assisted academic health sciences center. Comprising 1,627 beds, some 100 outreach sites, the MUSC College of Medicine, the physicians’ practice plan, and more than 200 telehealth locations, MUSC Health owns and operates eight hospitals situated in Charleston, Chester, Florence, Lancaster and Marion counties. As the state’s only publicly assisted, integrated network of teaching hospitals, MUSC Health is dedicated to training future generations of competent, compassionate health care providers to serve the patients of South Carolina and beyond. In Charleston, MUSC operates an 800-bed medical center, which includes a nationally recognized children's hospital; the Ashley River Tower, with a focus on cardiovascular, digestive disease, and surgical oncology; Hollings Cancer Center, the state’s only National Cancer Institute-designated facility; a Level I trauma center; an Institute of Psychiatry, and the state’s only transplant center. In 2018, for the fourth consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report named MUSC Health the number one hospital in South Carolina. ...Founded in 1824, MUSC is a premier, comprehensive academic health sciences center at the forefront of the latest advances in health care. The 16,400 MUSC employees include world-class physicians, specialty providers and scientists who deliver groundbreaking research and technology. For more information, visit http://muschealth.org.