Healthcare

Memorial University Medical Center
www.memorialhealth.com

Memorial Health is a leader in healthcare in Savannah and southeast Georgia. It boasts the region’s only Level I trauma center, Level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), comprehensive stroke center and the Memorial Health Dwaine and Cynthia Willett Children’s Hospital of Savannah. In 2018, Memorial Health joined HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services. Over the past seven years, the regional healthcare system has experienced unprecedented growth. HCA Healthcare has invested more than $325 million in capital improvements, equipment, and technology to date including:

• New freestanding Children’s Hospital of Savannah ($66M)
• 56-bed expansion in Memorial’s Heart & Vascular Institute ($30M)
• Land to build freestanding ERs in Pooler and Richmond Hil ($12M)
• 28-bed expansion in Level III NICU ($30M)
• Renovation of Memorial’s main patient tower ($20M)
• New medical office buildings on Memorial campus and in Pooler
• Robotic-assisted technologies for orthopedic & spine surgery, urological and head & neck surgery and bronchoscopy
• State-of-the-art technology for the hospital’s interventional GI lab, special procedures unit

Memorial Health has also benefitted its community since joining HCA Healthcare. The hospital has paid more than $125 million in taxes and contributed more than $1.75 million to charitable organizations in our region.

St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System
www.sjchs.org

St. Joseph’s/Candler is a fully integrated health system – the premier health provider in the region offering advanced, high-quality care. St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System began in 1997 when two Savannah hospitals partnered to create the largest faith-based nonprofit health institution in Savannah and its surrounding areas. Its two anchor hospitals, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Candler Hospital, have total capacities of 330 beds and 384 beds respectively.

St. Joseph’s/Candler (SJ/C) offers primary care across the region. The SJ/C Physician Network provides patients with convenient Primary Care offices and highly-trained specialists. The health system also features more than a dozen specialized inpatient and outpatient services including those for women and children, oncology, pulmonology, cardiovascular care, digestive disease services, neurological/neurosurgical care, and orthopedics.

The health system’s footprint continues to expand. A new, 170,000-square-foot hospital opened in Pooler in March 2019 and offers a broad range of medical services for the growing population in west Chatham and nearby counties, creating a one-stop, convenient healthcare destination redefining the healthcare experience through imagination, innovation, and modern technology. A regional campus in Richmond Hill in Bryan County at Heartwood opened in 2024 that provides urgent care, primary care and specialty services.

SJ/C has opened a regional medical campus in Bluffton, SC, that greatly expands services and access to healthcare for that rapidly growing community. The campus is located at Buckwalter Place. SJ/C has provided medical services in Bluffton and Hilton Head for the past 20 years, and this development consolidates most of these medical services in one location that is at the center of growth in Bluffton.

While it has the top specialists and latest technology, SJ/C has a robust community outreach program core to its mission to care for the uninsured and underinsured. In 2012, the health system received the Foster McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Services from the American Hospital Association.

Source: From public relations offices at MUMC and SJCHS. Revised 12/30/24