The Palmetto Palace: Hospitality In Action

Our Mission

To improve the health of Rural SC & advance community outreach through preventive and diagnostic care supported by health information technologies to under-served populations & communities.

The Palmetto Palace’s Mobile Health Unit was in collaboration with the late Honorable Reverend Senator Clementa Carlos Pinckney and to his devotion to health equity and increasing access to health care services to citizens of South Carolina.

Did you know? Rural populations are more likely to be poorer, sicker, older, uninsured, and medically underserved than urban populations.

We believe: Our model of care can work in the community the mobile unit is deployed with various resources efficiently and allow our experts to provide preventive services, dental care and refer patients to community partners when problems are uncovered on the health unit.

This is our first mobile unit and we know the work will not be easy, and we will experience challenges but together we are stronger.

Healthcare is a “right” but access to health care services is a “necessity”.

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Thank You In Advance For Your Donation That Allows Us To Continue Serving Families In Need.

Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter, an Orangeburg Democrat and colleague of the Late Senator Clementa C. Pinckney, who secured the donation for the mobile unit underscored the importance of the project. She stated, “The unit is important because the rural makeup of the district exacerbates the lack of access to health care for a large number of people. That lack of access winds up costing more in the long run because prevention is missing…”.