The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have created a webpage for tracking the reports of COVID-19 across the country. The page includes surveillance information, a map of reports by state and other important data. View the latest statistics...
The South Carolina Alzheimer’s Disease Registry, Office for the Study of Aging has released its 2019 Annual Report of the South Carolina Alzheimer’s Disease Registry. The report highlights Alzheimer’s disease as a growing concern for our state. This disease is...
Mental Health America (MHA) released its 2020 State of Mental Health in America state rankings that factor in the prevalence of mental illness and rates of access to care. South Carolina now ranks 44th in the country with improvement in its Access to Care ranking,...
Trust for America’s Health, a national health non-profit, published its annual obesity report this month and found that the national adult obesity rate was 30.9 percent. South Carolina’s was 34.3 percent. The report, referred to as the State of Obesity: Better...
On June 28th, the de Beaumont Foundation and the Bipartisan Policy Center released a new report detailing the ways in which private businesses and health departments mutually benefit when they collaborate to improve community health. This report describes the...
In the next twenty years, the population of adults over the age of 85 will double, leaving individuals and families struggling to find and pay for long-term services and supports (LTSS). These routine care services provide essential assistance for everyday activities,...
