Healthcare-Associated Infections in South Carolina Healthcare Facilities

This report contains data from January 2016 through December 2016

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Local health departments offer Partner Services, a free, confidential program for individuals and their partners who may have a sexually transmitted infection (STI), as well as others who are at an increased risk for infection. Partner Services assists with linking individuals and their partners to testing, treatment, medical care, STI/HIV prevention services, and other medical services to improve health outcomes. The goal is to prevent the spread of STIs and reduce the harmful effects of complications. Services are offered for the following infections:

Partner services are a broad array of services offered to persons with HIV infection, syphilis, gonorrhea, or chlamydial infection and their partners. A critical function of partner services is partner notification, a process through which infected persons are interviewed to elicit information about their partners, who can then be confidentially notified of their possible exposure or potential risk.

What is a Heart Attack?

A heart attack occurs when an artery that carries blood to your heart becomes blocked, usually by a blood clot. If this clot cuts off the blood flow completely, the part of your heart muscle supplied by the blocked artery begins to die. Damage to the heart muscle increases the longer you delay treatment.

Heart disease is the second leading cause of death for all women in South Carolina, and is the leading killer for African-American women in the Palmetto State.

Stroke is South Carolina's 5^th Biggest Killer.

• 20,879: The number of emergency department visits for stroke in South Carolina in 2022.
• 17,765: The number of hospitalizations for stroke in South Carolina in 2022.
• $1.5 billion: The total hospitalization charges due to stroke in South Carolina in 2022. 

What is a Stroke?

A stroke is an emergency! A stroke, sometimes called a brain attack, occurs when something blocks blood supply to part of the brain or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts.

Fact Sheets

• State of the Heart: Heart Disease and Stroke in South Carolina (pdf)
• State of the Heart for African Americans: Heart Disease in South Carolina (pdf)
• State of the Heart for Women: Heart Disease in South Carolina (pdf)

Related Information

• Eating for Heart Health

Below is a quick guide to your heart-healthy numbers:

About Cholesterol

• Cholesterol is a fat-like substance in your body
• High levels of cholesterol in your blood can lead to heart disease
• Nearly 42% of adults in South Carolina have high cholesterol

Types of Cholesterol

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High Blood Pressure in South Carolina

About 1 in 3 South Carolinians have been told by a doctor that they have high blood pressure, also called hypertension. Thousands more South Carolinians have high blood pressure and don't know it.