Becker's Healthcare February 3, 2025
Laura Dyrda

When Thomas Crawford, PhD, arrived at MUSC Health in 2015, the system had four hospitals on the Charleston peninsula. Since then, MUSC Health has grown into a 16-hospital system and they’re adding three campuses in the near future.

What is driving the expansion?

“We had a simple strategic vision, which was if the best care is provided locally, we needed to get off the Charleston Peninsula and start becoming local,” Dr. Crawford said during an interview with the “Becker’s Healthcare Podcast.” He said expansion plans have one “very, very well” because of their strategy.

“We specialize in taking hospitals that are failing financially and actually turning them around,” he said, sharing a recent example of the system’s success. “We are...

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