What has been known for decades as the Mabry Cancer Center in Orangeburg is now the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center-Orangeburg.
An event was held Friday to celebrate the cancer center’s rebranding. The event also honored the late H. Filmore Mabry, who served for three decades as the hospital’s CEO.
“We’ve been in the MUSC family for over a year now and we thought it would be fitting to celebrate what it means to be part of the Hollings family,” said Echo M. McAlhany, executive director of ambulatory operations at MUSC-Health Orangeburg.
The MUSC Hollings Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in South Carolina. Its flagship location is in Charleston.
Hollings is part of a unique network of 72 designated centers throughout the country that are working together to make progress in scientific discoveries and offer patients more and better treatment opportunities.
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Now that the cancer center in Orangeburg is part of the Hollings Cancer Center network, it provides patients with increased local options for care rather than going to Charleston.
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center-Orangeburg Clinical Director Dr. Chris Y. Brunson said, “We’ve made a lot of headway taking care of patients here. My expectation is that services for the community will expand. They’ve already expanded, but there’s plenty more expansion to go.”
“We don’t have a ‘wish list’ for this community on the (Interstate) 95 corridor. We’re going to come to you with a ‘to do’ list for what needs to be done with the collaborations with MUSC to improve not just cancer care, but services across the board for the community,” Brunson said.
Brunson previously worked at MUSC in Charleston for 12 years, where she started the adult sickle cell program.
She then came to Orangeburg.
“There are a lot of people who need help up here,” she said.
“When I first started, it was just me. I didn’t have another NP (nurse practitioner), I didn’t have another physician the first nine years,” she said.
MUSC Health CEO Dr. Patrick J. Cawley, who’s also the vice president of health affairs at MUSC, said, “I love to come to Orangeburg and Calhoun counties to talk about new things that are happening as part of the relationship MUSC has had more formally in this community in the last year and a half.”
“I’m particularly excited about this new chapter at the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center here in Orangeburg,” he added.
The partnership in Orangeburg is “a significant milestone in our mission at MUSC to transform cancer care for this community and actually the entire state of South Carolina.”
“The rebrand of the cancer center refers not just to a name change, but a renewed commitment to the future of cancer care,” he added.
“It ensures every patient has access to world-class treatment regardless of where they live,” he said.
“When I first arrived here and came to the cancer center, I came to realize how fortunate each and every one of our patients is to have this shining gem of a facility right here in Orangeburg,” said MUSC Health-Orangeburg CEO Walter Bennett III.
He said, “I’m looking forward to the new opportunities we’ll be able to offer as part of Hollings Cancer Center as we transform cancer care.”
Bennett said some of those changes include expanding world-class innovative treatment and clinical trials.
Inside the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center-Orangeburg is a prominently displayed tribute to Mabry and his contributions to local health care.
Gregg N. Frierson gave a tribute to Mabry during the celebration, saying, in part, that Mabry served as president and CEO of the then-Regional Medical Center for 32 years, beginning in 1961.
Mabry received the S.C. Hospital Association’s Distinguished Service Award in 1988 for his commitment to advancing health care throughout Orangeburg and Calhoun counties and surrounding counties, Frierson said.
In 1992, the then-Regional Medical Center’s cancer center was named in Mabry’s honor.
For more information about the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center-Orangeburg, visit: locations.muschealth.org/sc/orangeburg/1161-cook-rd
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