McLeod Health rolls out plans for expanded Carolina Forest campus, new cancer center to Myrtle Beach leaders
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) – McLeod Health plans to expand its Carolina Forest campus and open a comprehensive cancer treatment center within the next two years, executives told Myrtle Beach officials on Tuesday.
The investments were announced as part of McLeod’s “Vision 2025,” a strategic plan to help the system meet community meets in the future.
McLeod officials say their overall vacancy rate is just 3.5%, and more than 150,000 patients visited the Carolina Forest facility in 2023.
Because of the increase in patients, their primary care and emergency department got very busy, which resulted in additional surgeons and specialists getting recruited.
All of this led to McLeod Health creating the Carolina Forest surgery center, which is anticipated to open in January 2025.
The surgery center will be added onto the current campus and will be a 48 bed hospital. It will include operating rooms, and edical and surgical inpatients beds.
“What that will allow us to do is people that need a same day, surgical procedure will be able to get that in that surgery center and be discharged home,” said Montgomery.
For those in Myrtle Beach, McLeod Health is bringing a new primary care facility anticipated to open in the spring of 2025.
The third additon will be a comprehensive cancer center, opening in January of 2025.
It will be the first building in all of Horry County that will have radiation, medical oncology, infusion, and chemotherapy all under one roof.
“When you’re going through cancer, you need all those support services around you and not having to drive around to different locations,” Monica Vehige, CEO of McLeod Seacoast said. “So people will be able to come and have all of those services enter that one building. We’re really excited about that.”
Both Montgomery and Vehige say they are excited for these new additions to McLeod Health and are proud to help make an impact on those in the community.
* * *
Gracie is a multimedia journalist at News 13 and is from Cleveland, Ohio. Gracie joined the team in June 2023 after graduating from the University of Alabama in May. Follow Gracie on Facebook, Instagram and X, formerly Twitter, & read more of her work here.
Copyright 2024 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WBTW.
