Go Local–South Carolina

a service of Hands on Health-South Carolina

The Project.
The libraries of the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine have received funding from the National Library of Medicine to create a database of health resources and services in South Carolina.

This project, Go Local-South Carolina, is part of a national effort to make health resources more accessible.  Our goal is to identify and describe health services throughout South Carolina – a huge undertaking.  The database we create will be freely available on the Internet as part of the Hands on Health-SC (www.hohsc.org) Web site and the National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus (www.medlineplus.gov) Web site.   People will be able to search by type of service, health topic, or location.

The core of the Go Local-SC database is the facilities licensing data from the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control.  Building on this, librarians from medical and public library systems will identify additional services, providers, and programs within their service areas.

The result will be a valuable resource that can immediately and reliably link South Carolina residents to health services in or near their communities -- a resource that participating libraries will be proud to showcase as an important community service.

Our Partners.
The following hospitals and public library systems have joined the Go Local-SC project to identify and describe the health resources and services in their communities.

Your library can become a Go Local-SC partner!
If you can help, please e-mail or call Janice May (mayjc@musc.edu ; 843-792-3303), Hands on Health-SC project coordinator at the MUSC library.