Columbia Health News
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Columbia, South Carolina, is a fast-growing city with an estimated population of 147,035 (US Census Bureau, 2025). Its healthcare landscape spans academic medical centres and community hospitals, physician groups and ambulatory networks, federally qualified health centres, payers and Medicare Advantage plans, along with the clinicians and researchers serving the city and its surrounding counties.
Zocto's Columbia desk tracks the stories that shape care locally: hospital expansions, Joint Commission and CMS quality actions, FDA approvals reaching local health systems, insurance coverage and pricing, public health advisories from city and South Carolina health departments, medical education and workforce news, and the providers raising the standard of care.