The Better News Podcast explores the intersection of accountability, integrity, collaboration, compassion and innovation at AnMed. CEO William Kenley and teammates dig into stories that reveal how our health system’s guiding values are shaping an exceptional culture.
The Better News Podcast explores the intersection of accountability, integrity, collaboration, compassion and innovation at AnMed. CEO William Kenley and teammates dig into stories that reveal how our health system’s guiding values are shaping an exceptional culture.
View the episodes below for the full discussions!
Hospitals and health systems in South Carolina comprise a powerful economic engine that’s generating prosperity and job growth as well as health and wellness. A new report shows the state’s hospitals deliver a whopping $36.75 billion in total economic impact. That makes potential cuts to Medicaid reimbursement risky.
Date: Jul 01, 2025
Length: 18 min 31 sec
There were challenges before the achievement as a freestanding emergency department prepared to open for service in Piedmont, South Carolina. It’s the first operational wing on a health care campus that will ultimately include physical therapy and providers in primary care and more than 10 specialties. Community investment and collaboration made it happen.
Date: May 09, 2025
Length: 17 min
Learn how cutting-edge technology and techniques are changing the fight against lung cancer. South Carolina has lung cancer rates that are significantly higher than the national average, but new innovations are providing growing hope.
Date: Feb 10, 2025
Length: 20 min 26 sec
Two resident physicians and AnMed’s director of nursing got their starts in the health system as young volunteers. They gave time, energy and attention without expectation of compensation, but they did receive something valuable, and its effects linger to this day.
Date: Dec 2, 2024
Length: 32 min 09 sec
Genetics play a vital role in the fate of our health, but no one’s health care should be solely determined by the social or economic circumstances in which they were born. That’s why we’re acting. And we’re proud that our efforts have won national praise.
Date: Sep 25, 2024
Length: 35 min 14 sec
Adoptions within the U.S. and internationally have declined in recent years, but that doesn’t mean the need for adoptions is declining. The act of a couple or a person raising someone else’s biological child as their own is a beautiful thing. It takes sacrifice, but it reaps wonderful rewards, and AnMed teammates have firsthand experience on both sides of the family dynamic.
Date: Jul 22, 2024
Length: 27 min 40 sec
Inflation isn’t the only thing that’s impacting patients’ financial dealings in health care. Trends are troubling. But work is being done to ease that burden. Samantha Evans, director of business services at AnMed, and a group of local high school students led by Grace Wang, Kaylee Jacobson and Maleeha Khan-Niazi are among those who are stepping up. For more information on the students’ efforts, visit healthfirstalways.org
Date: May 24, 2024
Length: 25 min 32 sec
Something didn’t seem quite right when Paige Fuhrer and Lori White studied one particular blood culture recently. So they went beyond the norm and helped make a rare find for a young, autistic, non-verbal girl. And that made all the difference.
Date: Mar 3, 2024
Length: 22 min 38 sec
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