A Healthier Choice

May 29 2020

Conway Medical Center Awarded More Than $500,000 from FCC for COVID-19 Telehealth Program

A Healthier Choice, CMC Foundation, News

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has awarded Conway Medical Center (CMC) $536,359 to provide telehealth services during the coronavirus pandemic. The money will be used to purchase telecommunications services and broadband connectivity services, information services, and connected devices/equipment. Through this equipment, physicians and other medical providers will be able to establish long-distance healthcare contact to […]

May 18 2020

CMC Announces 2020 Palmetto Gold Award Winners

A Healthier Choice, News

Conway Medical Center is honored to announce that Cathy Gouveia, RN and Dody Martin, BSN were selected to receive the 2020 Palmetto Gold Award. The Palmetto Gold Nurse Recognition program was developed in 2002 to recognize Registered Nurses in the state of South Carolina who exemplify excellence in nursing practice and commitment to the nursing […]

May 4 2020

CMC Nationally Recognized with an ‘A’ for the Spring 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade – 4th ‘A’ in a Row

A Healthier Choice, Awards & Recognition, News

Conway Medical Center was awarded an ‘A’ in the Spring 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a national distinction recognizing CMC’s achievements providing safer health care. The Leapfrog Group is an independent national watchdog organization committed to health care quality and safety. The Safety Grade is a letter grade assigned to all general hospitals across the […]

March 16 2020

Getting to know Dr. Matthew Young

A Healthier Choice, Meet the Doc, Surgical

Dr. Matthew Young with Atlantic Urology grew up in the small town of Owensboro, Kentucky surrounded by family. His father worked in the local aluminum factory, and his mother worked several jobs as an educator at a school and teaching fitness. He was the first in his family to go into medicine, though he knew from […]

February 28 2020

CMC reducing the need for opioids after joint replacement surgery

A Healthier Choice, Alleviating Pain, Orthopedic Surgeon

Orthopedic surgeons wielding their scalpels and laparoscopic tools during life changing surgeries understand all too well that pain is an unavoidable part of the healing process. Yet the current opioid crisis has influenced the orthopedics team at CMC to reevaluate their standard treatments and prescribing practices and implement new best practices for the safety and […]

February 17 2020

Getting to know Cynthia Hamilton, NP

A Healthier Choice, Cardiac

Cynthia Hamilton has always loved her jobs in the healthcare field. Her grandfather had a lot of heart issues and spent a lot of time in the hospital. She remembers going and visiting him there as a child and believes that’s when she fell in love with nursing. She worked the first ten years of […]

December 9 2019

Robot surgery giving Grand Strand hernia patients more options, quicker recovery times

A Healthier Choice, Surgical, Surgical Procedures

By Conner Ingalls- WPDE ABC 15 News FLORENCE, S.C. (WPDE) – Bob Peddycord is, unfortunately, no stranger to hernias. He had his first surgery to repair one in the 1980’s. “Just to tell it like it is, that’s probably the most lengthy, painful recovery time that I’ve ever had after any surgery,” Peddycord said. “Had […]

November 4 2019

Getting to know Megan Causey, PT

A Healthier Choice, A Healthier You, Rehab Services

Spend just a few minutes talking with Megan Causey, and her joy for life shines through. It’s clear she loves people and loves talking with them. As a physical therapist, she says getting to know her patients is her favorite part of her job at Conway Medical Center’s Rehabilitation Services. “Every hour is a different […]

October 7 2019

Getting to know Dr. Stephen Brady

A Healthier Choice, Cardiac, Meet the Doc

When asked about his parents and siblings and his life growing up, Dr. Stephen Brady will tell you with a smile that they were the original Brady Bunch with three boys and three girls. Of course, that was before the television show even aired. His family lived in New Jersey, Maryland, and then onto Pennsylvania […]

Dr. Najla Itani and her husband pushing their son in a swing.

September 2 2019

Getting to know Dr. Najla Itani

A Healthier Choice, Cancer, Meet the Doc

Dr. Najla Itani says she always knew she wanted to be a doctor. Both of her parents are physicians, her father a surgeon and her mother an anesthesiologist who met in an operating room. She was born in Saudi Arabia to her Lebanese parents who had been recruited there to work on an American compound. Since […]