Palmetto Health System is composed of two separate hospital systems which formed in the late 1990s when the Richland Memorial and Baptist systems joined to form Palmetto Health.Palmetto Richland hospital was originally established in 1892 as Columbia Hospital and was one of the first hospitals in the city. Over the years with the growth of Columbia and the arrival of Fort Jackson the hospital expanded. It outgrew its original location on Harden St. by the 1960s.
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