We deliver innovative healthcare education and training, empowering professionals to provide exceptional care across South Carolina.
Founder Healix
We deliver innovative healthcare education and training, empowering professionals to provide exceptional care across South Carolina.
Pee Dee Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is a hospital based AHEC with McLeod Health and is one of four regional centers of the South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium. Created in 1973, Pee Dee AHEC, located in Florence, SC, builds and supports the healthcare workforce the twelve northeastern counties in South Carolina needs through educational programming and academic partnerships to broaden the distribution, increase access to high quality primary care especially across our rural and underserved communities.
We empower future healthcare professionals through education, training, and partnerships, ensuring accessible, high-quality care for all South Carolina communities.
We envision a healthier South Carolina with a strong, diverse healthcare workforce dedicated to improving lives in rural and underserved areas.
We uphold honesty, transparency, and accountability in every educational program, partnership, and service we provide to communities.
We foster teamwork among educators, students, and healthcare professionals to build stronger connections and advance shared healthcare goals.
We encourage continuous education, innovation, and skill development to ensure excellence in healthcare delivery across South Carolina.
We dedicate our efforts to improving access, quality, and equity in healthcare for rural and underserved populations.
In 1971, Congress developed the AHEC (Area Health Education Centers) program to recruit, train and retain a health professions workforce committed to underserved populations. The National AHEC network has expanded to include 54 programs and more than 200 centers operating in almost every state and the District of Columbia. South Carolina AHEC was established in 1972 as one of the first 11 AHECs created in the country. Today, SC AHEC is a robust system servicing the entire state of South Carolina through federal funding from HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration), recurring state funds and private grant funding from philanthropic organizations. The South Carolina AHEC Program Office is a state agency that is administratively housed at MUSC in Charleston. South Carolina AHEC contracts with the four regional AHEC centers located throughout the state to meet the local needs of rural and underserved areas in every county of South Carolina.
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