Bluffton Community
  Medical Campus

10 Innovation Drive, Bluffton
The building will be located at the corner of Bluffton Parkway and Buckwalter Parkway by the Buckwalter Place plaza. When looking at a map, it is the plot of land behind Publix Supermarket off of Innovation Drive.

Construction on the Beaufort Memorial Bluffton Community Medical Campus will begin shortly after groundbreaking in February 2025 and is expected to take 18 months to complete. The building is expected to open and operational in January 2027.

The three-story, Bluffton Community Medical Campus (BCMC) will include a free-standing emergency room, imaging services, an outpatient surgery center, laboratory and a top floor for future expansion of services.

Within the emergency department will be two triage rooms, five fast track rooms, 13 treatment rooms, a trauma room, decontamination and three ambulance bays. A helipad will be located next to the building for incoming emergencies and expedited transfers to higher levels of care.

The outpatient surgery center will have four surgical suites, two endoscopy procedure rooms and 20 pre-operative/recovery rooms. The types of procedures to be performed will include breast surgery, general surgery, gastroenterology, gynecology, orthopedics and urology.

Supporting both emergency services and surgical procedures will be a full-service laboratory and imaging center, including X-ray, MRI, CT, ultrasound, fluoroscopy and nuclear medicine.

Recruiting for providers, medical staff, and supporting personnel is an ongoing effort at Beaufort Memorial. In addition to bringing in new hires, personnel from other existing facilities will be transferred both temporarily and permanently to ensure that the new facility is adequately staffed. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply for existing openings and begin their career at an existing Beaufort Memorial facility.

To help position Beaufort Memorial as the region's preferred employer, the organization has implemented employer-subsidized childcare, assistance with affordable housing and several workforce development projects as part of our People Achieving Their Highest (PATH) Program. The PATH Program provides career pathways and onsite education as a way to develop the excellent clinicians and staff we need, while offering upward mobility for employees. The PATH Career Development Center on our Beaufort Campus houses a satellite location for the University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) Nursing Program, in addition to providing classrooms and state-of-the-art simulation labs to train current and future Beaufort Memorial team members. 

To introduce future generations of Beaufort Memorial employees, we offer summer Rising Star internships for area high school students and a dual enrollment program in partnership with the Beaufort County School District.

If you would like to get involved in the Beaufort Memorial Bluffton Community Medical Center project as a donor, please contact the Beaufort Memorial Foundation. 
For persons interested in career opportunities, openings for positions at this new facility will be listed on the Careers section of the main BMH website at a later date. We encourage applying for openings at any of our existing locations now and becoming a part of our growing team sooner rather than later!

More health care options elevates the service and quality of care, benefiting patients and the community. Given the growth that the Bluffton area is experiencing and the projected growth over the next 5-10 years, there will be plenty of demand to warrant new options for inpatient and outpatient care.

The total budget for facility is $103-million

• $70-million in construction
• $23-million in equipment
• $10-million in professional fees and soft costs

Beaufort Memorial, acknowledging the need for a new hospital in Bluffton, filed a Certificate of Need (CON) application for a 20-bed "micro-hospital" in 2018. Our belief in the Bluffton area's need for a hospital has not wavered.

In fact, with the Bluffton Community Medical Campus (BCMC) well underway, we have filed a second CON application to add 28 inpatient beds on the third floor of that facility.

More health care options strengthen a community, ultimately elevating the service and quality of care. Our opposition isn't about limiting options.

After our planned micro-hospital was challenged for more than six years, we cannot simply stand by as those same actors now reverse course and are seeking approval to build their own hospital less than 300 yards away from our BCMC project.

On January 14, 2025, the S.C. Department of Public Health (DPH) hosted a public hearing at the request of Beaufort Memorial regarding our competitor's plans. Learn what happened at the hearing and more about Beaufort Memorial's stance.

Yes.

Beaufort Memorial requires all physicians and advanced practice providers, including physician assistants and nurse practitioners, on the medical staff to be board certified or board eligible. These same requirements will apply to all providers coming on board for the new facilities.

We continue to recruit for the very difficult to obtain specialties of endocrinology and rheumatology, as does Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC Health) through our affiliation agreement. These specialties are available via telehealth through MUSC Health.

Emma June Grosskopf - Beaufort Memorial Media Relations Manager
Email: emma.grosskopf@bmhsc.org
Office: (843) 522-5732

Within the first year of the BCMC's opening, Beaufort Memorial will add 250 new jobs to the local workforce.