Suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients will be finding a new home for treatment at North Greenville Hospital.
Prisma Health announced Tuesday that the facility will be made dedicated for care of coronavirus patients.
Patients who were already in the North Greenville Hospital have been moved to other Prisma Health locations in the upstate along with the various physicians, nurses, therapists and wound-care specialists helping to treat them.
This move was made to open up a dedicated facility should the space be needed, but other health care facilities will continue to treat patients of the virus.
The chief clinical officer for Prisma Health-Upstate, Dr. Wendell James III, said that this was done to be prepared and available if necessary, but he hopes that it won't be needed.
The hospital already has negative-pressure rooms which are used to isolate patients who have infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Officials say other rooms are being converted into negative-pressure units as well to help prevent spread of the disease.
33 cases and one death from the virus have been reported by DHEC in the state as of Tuesday afternoon.
