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SC Health & Medical Organizations

• ACCESS Network - HIV and AIDS service organization for Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper counties
  
• AID Upstate - Anderson, Oconee, Pickens, Greenville counties
  
• Alcohol, drug abuse prevention organizations - by county
• Alzheimer's Association - South Carolina Chapter
• Alzheimer's Family Services of Greater Beaufort
• American Lung Association Southeast Region - serving Georgia and South Carolina
  
• American Red Cross - SC chapters
• Apert International - Apert Syndrome - Columbia
• Arc of South Carolina - advocates for people with cognitive, intellectual, and developmental disabilities
  
• ASCEND Foundation - Anne Scandalios Cancer Ends Now Directive Foundation
  
• Aynor Volunteer Rescue Squad

• BabyNet - early intervention services for SC children with learning disabilities
  
• Berkeley County Rescue Squad
• Mary Black Foundation - working to improve the health and wellness of Spartanburg County residents
  
• The Blood Connection - upstate non-profit blood collection and distribution service
  
• Brain Injury Alliance of South Carolina

• Camp Discovery - Blythewood - working with abused and special needs children
  
• Camp Happy Days - offering support and hope for children with cancer
  
• Cancer Society of Greenville
• Caring Community Development Coalition - Mount Pleasant - brings health services to distressed families
  
• Carolina Autism
• Carolina Empowerment Group - Charleston - HIV and AIDS awareness
  
• Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care - Columbia
  
• Catawba Care Coalition - Rock Hill - medical care and education for HIV/AIDS in Chester, Lancaster, and York counties
  
• Children's Chance - assists families who have children with cancer through emotional, psychological & financial support
  
• Closing the Gap in Healthcare - North Charleston - educating minorities in all aspects of health
  
• Columbia Medical Society
• Columbia Parkinson's Support Group
• Courageous Kidz - Charleston - encouraging children that are battling cancer
  
• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - South Carolina Chapter

• Disability Action Center - Midlands and Upstate - helping people with disabilities live independently
  
• Disability Resource Center - Charleston - independent living center
  
• Donate Life South Carolina - organ and tissue donation
  –   Every11Minutes.org - online organ donor registry
  
• Dragon Boat Charleston - for cancer survivors

• Easter Seals South Carolina - helps disabled people

• Family Resource Center for Disabilities and Special Needs - for parents who have children with disabilities - Charleston
  
• Free Medical Clinic - Columbia - provide quality healthcare to those who cannot pay
  
• Friends of Caroline Hospice - Beaufort
  

• Hands on Health South Carolina
• Healing Farm Ministries - Charleston - serving families and individuals with developmental disabilities
  
• Healthy Smiles of Spartanburg - collaborates with practitioners and educators to increase the number of children in Spartanburg who receive dental care
  
• Helping Hands Hospice - Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Marlboro
  
• Hospice Care of the Lowcountry
  
• Hospice Care of South Carolina - statewide
• Hospice House of Greenville
• Hospice of the Upstate - Cherokee, Chester, Fairfield, Lancaster, Union, York
  

• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
  –  Low Country Chapter - Charleston
  –  Palmetto Chapter - Columbia
  –  Western Carolinas Chapter - Greenville
  

• KeoweeCare - health and human services resources for Oconee county
  

• L.E. Support Club - for lupus patients
• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society - South Carolina Chapter
• LifeManagement Center - Charleston and Walterboro - solutions for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Learning Differences (LD)
  
• LifePoint - organ & tissue procurement
• LifeShare of the Carolinas - organ procurement organization serving York County
  
• Louie's Kids - Charleston - fighting childhood obesity
• Lowcountry Area Health Education Center - AHEC
• Lyme Disease Network of South Carolina

• March of Dimes - South Carolina Chapter - working to improve the health of babies
  
• Mental Health America of South Carolina
• Mental Illness Recovery Center - Columbia
• Mid-Carolina Area Health Education Center - AHEC
• MSKP Foundation - year-round fundraising to benefit children suffering from childhood illness or disease
  
• Multiple Sclerosis - National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Mid-Atlantic Chapter
  

• National Alliance for the Mentally Ill - South Carolina affiliates
  
• National Association For Continence - headquarted in Charleston
• National Kidney Foundation of South Carolina
• Newborns in Need - South Carolina Chapter
• North Myrtle Beach Rescue - volunteer emergency medical team
  
  
• Obesity prevention organizations
• Open Arms Hospice - Greenville
  
  
• Palmetto AIDS Life Support Services - PALSS
• Partners for Active Living - Spartanburg
• Partners for a Healthy Community - Anderson County
• Pee Dee Area Health Education Center - AHEC
• Piedmont Care - helping people with HIV and AIDS in Cherokee, Spartanburg, and Union counties
  
• Planned Parenthood Health Systems - family planning - offices in Charleston, Columbia
  
  
• Red Cross - SC chapters
  
• Rein & Shine - Awendaw - using horses to heal children and adults with limitations
  
• Ronald McDonald House - Charleston
  
• Ronald McDonald House - Columbia
  
• Ronald McDonald House - Greenville
  
  
• Safe Kids Upstate - working to prevent accidental childhood injuries
  
• SharedCare - helping those in need find health care in Horry County
  
• Smoking cessation resources
• SOS Health Care - Myrtle Beach
• South Carolina Access - information on aging and disability services
  
• South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium - AHEC
  –  Lowcountry Health Education Center
  –  Mid-Carolina Area Health Education Center
  –  Pee Dee Area Health Education Center
  –  Upstate Area Health Education Consortium
  
• South Carolina Assistive Technology Program - for people with disabilities
  
• South Carolina Autism Society
• South Carolina Brain Injury Leadership Council - state's advisory board
  
• South Carolina Cancer Alliance
• South Carolina Chapter of Certified Natural Health Professionals
  
• South Carolina Chiropractic Association
• South Carolina College of Emergency Physicians
• South Carolina Dental Association
• South Carolina Dietary Managers Association
• South Carolina Fibromyalgia Support Group - Greenville
• South Carolina Health Information Management Association
• South Carolina Healthcare Managers Association
• South Carolina Hospital Association
• South Carolina Medical Association
• South Carolina Nurses Association
• South Carolina Office of Rural Health
• South Carolina Pharmacy Association
• South Carolina Primary Health Care Association
• South Carolina Public Health Association
• South Carolina Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Support Group
  
• South Carolina Society of Anesthesiologists
• South Carolina Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• South Carolina Tobacco Collaborative - working for a smoke free SC
  –  Smoke Free Columbia
  –  Smoke Free Horry - B.R.E.A.T.H.E. Coalition
  –  Smoke Free Lowcountry
  –  Smoke Free Newberry
  
• Southern Medical Association in South Carolina
• Special Olympics of South Carolina
• Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation - Lowcountry chapter
  –  Charleston Race for the Cure
  
  
• Taylors Free Medical Clinic - provides primary health care at no cost to those that cannot pay
  
• Tell Them! - advocacy network for reproductive health services and education for SC teens to improve teen health and decrease teen pregnancy rate
  
• Tri-State Stroke Network - SC, NC, GA - how to prevent strokes plus statistics on the "Stroke Buckle"
  
  
• Upstate Coalition for Health Careers - works to increase entry of minority students into health professions pipeline
  
  
• Volunteers in Medicine Clinic - Hilton Head - free medical services
  
  
• Wellspring Resource Center - holistic health advocacy
  

Related SC Health Organination Resources

• My Personal Health Record, South Carolina - free and secure electronic service that stores your Medicare claims history for the past 24 months