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“The History”

The Sea Island Comprehensive Health Care Corporation (SICHCC) is a private, not-for-profit Corporation, chartered in the state of South Carolina and granted tax exemption status under Section 501c(3) of the Internal Revenue Codes in 1972. The Corporation is a comprehensive health care delivery program that provides services to a sparsely isolated population in the western portion of Charleston County. The Corporation is comprised of a Skilled Nursing Home (under lease agreement), Rural Housing Complex, Home Health Unit, Child Care Development Center, four (4) Congregate Nutrition Sites, a Home Delivered Meal Program(CLTC) and Transportation Services for the elderly.

The Corporation is governed by a 15 member voluntary Board of Directors. Operating authority for the management and overall direction of the Corporation is delegated to the Executive Director. Under the leadership of the Executive Director, the Management Team consists of the Chief Financial Officer, Director of Human Resources, Home Health Director, Title III Program Director, Rural Housing Director, and the Director of Early Childhood Development who exercise administrative management and fiscal oversight of the Corporation's operations.

The system of care is designed to accommodate - plan and initiate services dependent upon area need, meeting the multiple needs of individual clients, and ensuring client satisfaction by a community involved in its service delivery.

~Objectives~

The objectives of Sea Island Comprehensive Health Care Corporation are to administer to the needs of the island communities by promoting and providing health and human services such as:

~SKILLED HOME HEALTH SERVICES~

· Senior Programs

· Child Development Programs

· Housing for The Elderly and Handicapped

· Transportation

~COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENTS~

· The Ministerial and Layperson Alliance

· The Sea Island Revitalization Committee

· The Sea Island Health Improvement Committee

· The Committee for Economic Development and Affordable Housings

~Accomplishments~

1974

Ÿ Established the Sea Island Community Development Funds, Inc. (SICDF) as a Companion 501 C (3).

Ÿ Sea Island Community Development Funds, Inc. purchased 4.1 acres and later 8 acres of land.

Ÿ Built an 88-unit apartment complex and constructed a sewer treatment plant.

1977

Ÿ Organized a certified Home Health Agency, providing skilled nursing care, physical and speech therapy, medical social services and home health aide care.

Ÿ Established the Johns Island Health Center, Sea Island Laboratory and Pharmacy.

1979

Ÿ Established five congregate nutrition sites, a home delivered meal program and transportation service for residents sixty years of age and older.

1980

Ÿ Completion of the Johns Island Rural Housing Complex for elderly and handicapped individuals.

Ÿ Completion of Hermina Traeye Nursing Home, an 88-bed certified, skilled and intermediate nursing facility.

Ÿ Completion of the 12,000 square feet clinic facility and a separate 4,500 square feet laboratory and pharmacy building.

1994

Ÿ Received a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to establish a Community Services Division in the Yonges Island area.

Ÿ Assumed operation of three Child Development Centers from the South Carolina Department of Social Services in the Yonges and Edisto Islands areas.

Ÿ Purchased a site in the Town of Hollywood for a new 5,000 square feet building.

Ÿ Awarded a grant from the Bureau of Primary Health Care to perform needs assessment for delivery of primary health care services in Charleston and Colleton Counties.

1994

Ÿ One of twenty (20) recipients of the 1994 “Best Practice Award” given in Washington, D.C.

Ÿ Awarded the Sisters of Orange County California St. Joseph Health System’s Intensive Care for our Neighbor (ICON) Award. The nomination was anonymous and the cash award was for $82,500.00.

1995

Ÿ Received funding from the Bureau of Primary Health Care to initiate primary health care services in Colleton County.

Ÿ Construction of a 44-bed wing at the Hermina Traeye Nursing Home, giving it a total bed complement of 132.

Ÿ Assumed operation of four child development centers in Colleton County previously operated by the South Carolina Department of Social Services.

2004

Ÿ In January 2004, we filed for Chapter 11 under the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

2005

Ÿ In December 2005, we emerged from bankruptcy.

Board of Directors

Officers

McKinley Washington, Jr.

Curtis Inabinett, Sr.

Mary B. Porter

Vernell Brown

Eric Mack

Board Members

Charles Brown

Herbert U. Fielding

Kaye Koonce

Gerald Mackey

Harold Rhodes

Alex White

Margie Bright-Matthews

Chief Executive Officer

David B Richardson

Chief Financial Officer

Tony McGill

Phone: 843-559-4137

Fax 843-559-9925

E-mail: info@sichcc.org