Last year was groundbreaking for our health system, literally and figuratively.
We opened AnMed Piedmont in May to provide emergency care, primary care, therapy, specialty care and more to an area in need, and we began construction on another campus on the other end of the Upstate in August at AnMed Central / Clemson.
We began dramatic renovations in October to give life to an old shopping center with modern, attractive, capable care space for AnMed Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, improving capabilities for AnMed Cardiology and others in the process.
New ventures in AnMed Urgent Care and AnMed Integrated Therapy began delivering care across the region in 2025.
New hope reached our patients.
Low-dose radiation therapy, or LDRT, was provided to reduce pain and improve quality of life for benign conditions like arthritis when other treatments fail.
New minimally invasive and robotic-assisted orthopedic procedures delivered faster recovery and improved outcomes.
New technology revolutionized cardiac care. New partnerships supported exceptional neonatal care.
Doctors who were new to our system joined to provide pediatric and primary care needed throughout the region.
Making me most proud is the way that exceptional care was delivered, the way it continues to be delivered — with compassion. Healing begins not only with advanced treatments and expertise but with understanding, empathy and human connection.
Thanks to our people, armed with exceptional capabilities, more ground is to be broken.
Better starts here.
Mission, Vision & Values
William Kenley Chief Executive Officer
AnMed is dedicated to providing the highest quality care, delivered with compassion and respect. Our culture is a collection of our common beliefs, values and attitudes. By making a commitment to live this culture every day, we ensure that better starts with each of us.
Mission
The mission of AnMed is to provide exceptional and compassionate care to all we serve.
Vision
Our vision is to work together for better health and a better life.
Values
At the foundation of efforts to accomplish our mission and vision, our values serve to shape and define the day-to-day actions of the staff and practices of the organization.
Accountability
We commit to being exceptional and exceeding expectations.
Integrity
We do the right thing — no matter what.
Collaboration
We are better together as one team.
Compassion
We foster a positive and caring environment for all.
Innovation
We improve what we do and how we do it.
COMPASSIONATE CARE
Compassionate care is at the center of what we do
Teammates step up with special care when troubling winds blow
A patient was struggling with medical debt and working to overturn a denial from Medicaid when Hurricane Helene struck and blew a tree onto his home that killed his girlfriend.
Trauma and turmoil kept medical bills far from top of his mind.
Kim Lusk, who works in our Financial Counseling department, took action to provide what help she could. She coached the patient through his Medicaid application and attended a virtual hearing to overturn the denial. Thanks to her intervention, the patient was
able to secure assistance, and Medicaid covered almost all his medical debt.
That’s the kind of compassion that shines through our care.
Thoughtful consideration touches patients
It’s what led Molly Williams to travel out of town on consecutive weekends to help a deaf and blind patient recharge and replace a medical monitor.
It’s what inspired Cam Fuller to provide a manicure and spa treatment to a patient who was alone and sad.
It’s what guided Mary Little to calm, encourage and help a patient who was suicidal.
It’s what drew Candace Whitfield to accompany a patient to a funeral home after the patient had lost his wife.
It’s what spurred Mary Beth Yates to deliver groceries, meals, batteries and a portable device charger when the hurricane left her Home Health patients without power or supplies. She did it all while providing exceptional therapy despite damage and interruptions to daily life throughout the region.
Such heartfelt compassion drove our efforts to advance care that won state and national awards, but we don’t do it for awards. We do it because that’s how we feel and that’s who we are.
Personal touches deliver a difference
That’s why the AnMed Foundation has donated millions of dollars to help meet the greatest health care needs of the community.
That’s why we’ve invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment, facilities, training and analysis to enhance the security of patients, visitors and teammates.
That’s why teammates went above and beyond what was expected in 2025.
That’s why Melissa Haynie secured nail aprons for breast-cancer patients, men included, who preferred something other than pink bags to place drains during their treatment.
That’s why Kassie Patterson took it upon herself to work out a plan to enable a new mother who’d just delivered
twins to visit her mother who was in declining health on a different unit.
That’s why Morgan Rash collected data from staff at a medical device clinic to share along with medical history for a patient who’d suffered a heart attack in Spain. The information was key to helping the staff overseas prepare proper treatment.
INNOVATION & EXPERTISE
The most advanced technologies improve what we do
Advanced capabilities unlock a better future for South Carolina
With procedures and services unavailable elsewhere in the region, AnMed considers innovation integral to its mission to provide exceptional and compassionate care. New and improved abilities and methods drive better outcomes and more effective treatments.
That was evident as ever in 2025 as groundbreaking technology and advancements in care helped AnMed transform lives.
Until late summer, Robert White dreaded even simple tasks like walking to his mailbox or stepping up into his boat. Osteoarthritis and chronic knee pain followed years of martial arts and an accidental fall from a deer stand. Traditional treatments had failed.
AnMed offered hope through low-dose radiation therapy, or LDRT treatments. Used more widely in Europe for benign conditions like White’s but historically reserved for cancer care in the U.S., LDRT was first made available to residents of Upstate South Carolina and northeast Georgia by AnMed.
By fall, White had found significant relief and a new lease on life.
Dr. Leander Cannick III, Dr. William “Vic” Tomlinson and AnMed today use LDRT to help patients reduce pain and manage a number of inflammatory conditions.
AnMed leverages science and advancements in every specialty.
Dr. Abhijit Raval performed one of the nation’s first procedures using Aliya® PEF technology with the Ion robotic system in 2025. The minimally invasive and extraordinarily precise approach has provided new hope for patients with soft tissue lesions when conventional options fall short of their hopes and needs.
Orthopedic innovation also reached new heights last year as Dr. Hunter Hsu introduced the Upstate’s most comprehensive program for robotic-assisted total and partial knee and hip replacements. His muscle-sparing
techniques today deliver faster recovery and improved outcomes to patients regularly, setting a new standard for joint care.
Cardiac care advanced with the implantation of the world’s first dual chamber leadless pacemaker system, the AVEIR DR from Abbott, by Dr. Ricky Henderson. The system’s breakthrough has enabled wireless synchronization of two leadless devices, addressing a critical need for the majority of pacemaker patients.
Patients of all kinds and in locations far and wide were served in 2025 by AnMed’s Heart and Vascular Symposium, an annual event to share knowledge and expertise, equipping doctors and care providers with the latest science and information on best practices to combat cardiovascular disease, the leading global cause of death.
The health system’s pursuit of leading, exceptional, compassionate, advanced care earned national recognition throughout the year:
• Magnet designation for nursing excellence, held since 2012
• Blue Distinction Centers for spine surgery and joint replacement
• Beacon Award for Excellence for the ICU, the only one in the Upstate to achieve this honor for seven consecutive years
• Multiple quality achievement awards from the American Heart Association
• Individual achievements further underscored the health system’s culture of innovation, expertise and leadership in 2025:
• Dr. Michael Seemuller received the Llewelyn Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to medicine.
• Brad Holmes was named South Carolina’s Emergency Nurse Leader of the Year.
• Chad Robinson was named South Carolina Physician Assistant of the Year.
It takes more than technology and science to provide exceptional care, after all. It takes people, compassionate people dedicated to helping develop ever more improvements.
Their innovation expands access to more services and better lives as an intrinsic element of AnMed’s commitment.
Access, services and convenience grow as health system expands
With construction on new campuses, major renovations for new practice locations, more highly skilled experts and innovative new partnerships to expand access to care, AnMed grew throughout a transformative year in 2025.
Officials broke ground on a $105 million investment in Clemson, Central and the surrounding communities in August, just three months after the opening of the health system’s newest campus on the other end of Upstate South Carolina in Piedmont.
Once built and opened in 2027, AnMed Central / Clemson will provide the area’s only emergency department as well as primary and specialty care
offices and more. About 150,000 square feet of space for patient care includes shelled space to allow seamless future expansions as community needs grow.
Local leaders shared their excitement.
“This is a momentous investment in our community — its health, wellbeing and future — and it’s heartening to know how it will touch lives having seen what’s happening over at AnMed Piedmont,” said Clemson Mayor Robert Halfacre. “It’s not just advanced medical technology, services and convenience but the care of compassionate people that makes such a special difference for a community.”
Clemson, Central, Piedmont and Anderson benefit from AnMed’s growth
AnMed Piedmont opened to celebration in May. A 4-year-old boy who fell off a scooter at preschool and needed stitches on his chin was the first patient served in the campus’ emergency department. He was treated, released and eating ice cream in about an hour.
“They did great here!” his mother said as they left.
The dramatic overhaul of a former shopping center in Anderson began in October to help accommodate needs to expand and growing caseloads among multiple services throughout the health system. The complex completely reimagines the former Windsor Place shopping center, and it reinvigorates what had become a blighted area around the vacant property.
It’s due to open in 2026 to instantly boost convenience and access to AnMed’s exceptional, compassionate care.
More providers are providing more care
Boosted access and convenience marked the beginning of 2025, too, as AnMed engaged strategic partnerships with Elite Integrated Therapy and Urgent Care Group to significantly and quickly expand and improve upon services that Upstate residents need. AnMed CEO William Kenley said the partnerships enabled AnMed to rapidly and significantly expand services.
“They make us a better asset to our community,” he said.
Also boosting the system’s value as an asset: more doctors and nurses than ever. Since 2020, during a time when many health care systems faced cuts to services amid the outbreak of the COVID pandemic, AnMed’s roster of providers has grown by more than 14%.
What is provided is growing, too. Many of the new physicians are performing procedures and providing services that the system did not previously have — including ones unavailable elsewhere in the region.
15,715 inpatient admissions = 1,000 admissions
$105 million investment in Central / Clemson area
*AnMed Central / Clemson under construction on 18 Mile Road near U.S. Highway 123 = $10 million
$810.1 million total operating revenue
*2024 number includes annualized projections and estimates
93,283 Emergency Department visits = 10,000 visits = $100 million
NURSING EXCELLENCE
Patients and peers validate our exceptional standards
AnMed nurses set gold standard for exceptional care
AnMed’s nurses set a standard for exceptional care again in 2025. Patient testimonies praised individuals throughout the health system as focus on compassion, collaboration, innovation and service accompanied professional development efforts amid commitment to fostering a pipeline for the future of nursing.
At AnMed Medical Center, where designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet program has been held since 2012, AnMed’s ICU was recognized for the seventh year with the prestigious Beacon Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
Zero Harm honors from the South Carolina Hospital Association, and stroke and heart care recognitions from the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines program were also among system honors earned through the leadership of nurses.
And the service of AnMed’s nurses reached far beyond the health system’s walls. Among community efforts in 2025:
• Nurses from AnMed partnered with Samaritan’s Purse to help recovery efforts in Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene.
• In May, as part of Nurses Week, nurses from AnMed painted the interior of a new house for a single father through AnMed’s partnership with Habitat for Humanity.
• Nurses from AnMed taught hands-only CPR to children at the Hunter-McClaren Youth Summit and STEM Day at Iva Elementary.
Special efforts were directed to reach AnMed nurses, too, as system leaders provided development opportunities that supported professional growth and wellbeing. Such work has helped AnMed rank among
national leaders in nurse retention.
A Behavioral Emergency Response Team, or BERT team, launched in July 2025 to help equip teammates with additional resources to mitigate violence through intentional rounding and de-escalation.
Partnership with Rutland Institute for Ethics at Clemson University, the South Carolina Organization of Nurse Leaders, the Clemson University School of Nursing and AnMed’s Language Services & Collaborative Care department drew a visit from Dr. Jerome Adams, the 20th U.S Surgeon General.
AnMed restructured its nursing professional governance last year to better support exceptional care with newly structured Housewide Councils led by clinical nurses.
Several of those nurses were among the 14,000 who attended the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet and Pathway 2025 conference in October in Atlanta.
A new process for nurses to submit ideas for practice changes, safety issues and professional development was initiated last year. Ideas submitted by clinical nurses led
Recent external presentations from AnMed nurses
Communication devices: Caring for the device or caring for the patient
Darlene Amendolair, PhD, RN; Andrea Franks, DNP, RN, NE-BC; and Michelle Owens, BSN, RN, PCCN International Association of Human Caring Conference 2024
Finding Phlebitis: A Comparative Analysis of the INS and VIP Scales in the Acute Care Setting
Samantha Blackwood, BSN, RN; and Andrea Franks, DNP, RN, NE-BC South Carolina Nurses Association 2025 Annual Convention
Innovative Nurse Recruitment: Utilizing a Summer Immersion Experience for Students
De-a Brown, MSN, RN; and Ashley Rutledge, MSN, RN —South Carolina Nurses Association 2025 Annual Convention
Publications from AnMed nurses in 2025
Nurse technology use and patient-care perceptions: Implications for leadership
Darlene Amendolair, Andrea Franks
Nursing Management, March/April 2025
Engaging the nursing pipeline: Benefits of early enculturation into the healthcare environment
Amy Milner, Andrea Franks, Shaunda Trotter, De-a Brown
Nursing Management, June 2025
Magnet Program Directors: Advancing Quality Through Excellence in Professional Development
Amy Milner
Journal for Nurses in Professional Development, September/October 2025
to positive changes in medication administration times, patient care and an enhanced supply chain, driving innovative ways to positively impact patient care.
Nurse leader rounding and continued focus on bedside shift reporting contributed to excellence in increased nurse communication and patient experience scores.
Pipeline programs continued to thrive through AnMed with 17 nurse externs participating in a summer college program and 11 high school students participating in the health system’s Med Ed Academy program, providing an opportunity to see professional nursing firsthand.
Katy Boggs, a nurse in Home Health, was named the winner of AnMed’s Gold Standard Award, the health system’s highest internal recognition for professional nurses. Along with a colleague, Boggs played a key role in establishing the AnMed Home Health Fund to help patients with critical needs like medications and utilities. She even personally paid a power bill for a patient during the summer to ensure their safety.
In addition, AnMed provided clinical nursing opportunities to students at multiple schools with about 300 nursing students participating in rotations in 2025.
The year saw 115 newly licensed nurses participate in a Nurse Residency program designed to provide support during nurses’ first year in the profession.
Other nurses were among AnMed teammates chosen as Stars of the Month after going to great lengths to extend compassion and provide exceptional care.
Cam Fuller, who works in Intensive Care Services, noticed a patient had been feeling down and alone recently. The patient had not had any recent visitors during a somewhat lengthy stay, so Fuller lifted her spirits by giving her a spa treatment. He researched how to give a manicure and use cuticle oil. He placed an order with Door Dash to receive several nail polish colors. He washed her hair. And he lifted her spirits. The next day, the patient was cheerful and showing off her nails. Fuller’s efforts earned him honors as one of AnMed’s Stars of the Month.
Melissa Haynie, who works in Cancer Care Services, provides supplies to breast cancer patients going through surgery. That includes bags to place drains – pink like many items for breast cancer awareness. Haynie suspected that some of her male patients would prefer nail aprons, so she went out and bought some to provide an alternative. She, too, was among AnMed nurses named among Stars of the Month.
FOUNDATION SUPPORT
Our community gives generously to support better care
Inspiring generosity. Transforming lives
The AnMed Foundation connects the compassion of the community with AnMed’s mission to provide exceptional and compassionate care to all. Through the generosity of donors, sponsors and partners, the nonprofit organization funds community programs and initiatives that strengthen care across the region, from providing life-saving technology to community outreach that impacts every generation.
Making an impact together
Camellia Ball — Camellia Ball is the AnMed Foundation’s signature black-tie gala, uniting community and care. The 2025 Camellia Ball, themed A Night Under the Big Sky, co-chaired by Caleigh and Trey Thomas, shined a spotlight on the expansion of Children’s Services, ensuring AnMed’s youngest patients have access to exceptional care close to home. The Ball raised $522,000 in support of this vital cause.
Kids Classic Golf Tournament — The Foundation’s annual golf tournament brings together supporters for a day of fun and philanthropy, raising $141,250 for children’s outreach programs such as Safe Kids, DocLink, Reach Out & Read and more.
DocLink Program — Founded by AnMed physicians in 1999, DocLink connects health care professionals with local schools to deliver age-appropriate health education. Through lessons on nutrition, safety and healthy habits, DocLink empowers students to make positive choices and live healthier lives.
Safe Kids Anderson County — Led by AnMed, Safe Kids works to prevent unintentional childhood injuries through education and outreach. The program provides car-seat checks, safety workshops and sports safety clinics for families, helping children grow up safer and healthier.
Better Together Campaign: In 2025, AnMed launched the Better Together Campaign, combining the longstanding Employee Giving Campaign with the United Way of Anderson County effort into one unified initiative. This collaboration encouraged team members to support both AnMed Foundation programs and community-based organizations through a single, streamlined campaign. Employees rallied around the theme “Better Together” — emphasizing that when we give as one, we create a stronger community for all. Together, 65% of AnMed teammates contributed $587,093, supporting local programs that help patients, coworkers and neighbors in times of need.
Your support. Our mission.
A healthier tomorrow
Every gift makes a difference, from helping a child reach their full potential to supporting a family during a health crisis. Together, we are building a stronger, healthier community.
At AnMed, Better starts here.
We go beyond our walls to build community
Partnerships accompany dedication to community
Azrial mingled with visitors in his fresh new living room as his two young sons laughed and ran circles between them. Standing nearby, his mother called to steer her grandkids out of officials’ way as they scurried with final preparations for a momentous climax to a monthslong project.
The threat of rain had moved official dedication of Azrial’s new home inside from his front yard. Thunder could be heard in the distance, but nothing seemed to dampen spirits.
The single father was handed the key to his front door after investing sweat equity and education alongside the initiative, work and donations brought through a partnership between AnMed and Habitat for Humanity of Anderson County.
“I never had a permanent place to live like this when I was growing up,” Azrial said. “To be able to give this to my sons, that means a lot.”
About 150 nurses, doctors, technicians and other AnMed professionals learned new skills, put hammers to nails, contributed about 600 volunteer hours and raised $32,000 to provide Azrial and family a limitless future.
The project was just another way the health system’s teammates could make a positive impact on their community.
It is, after all, their community, their home.
Dollars raised through AnMed donations
Future for the family
Single father Young sons
Exterior walls
Volunteers from AnMed
Work hours by AnMed employees
Dr. Andrea Pitts of AnMed Orthopedics & Sports Medicine is the head team physician at the college where she played volleyball, Anderson University.
And when he’s not caring for children in the Upstate at AnMed Pediatrics, Dr. Joseph Michael Stone serves communities all over in the National Disaster Medical System to provide care when a state or territory is overwhelmed by disaster.
William Kenley, the CEO of AnMed, serves the state as the chair of the South Carolina Hospital Association,
leading efforts to facilitate collaboration to advance improvements in patient care, access and the health care workforce.
AnMed partnered with Tri-County Technical College and Elite Integrated Therapy Centers in 2025 to develop a new Physical Therapy Assistant program addressing a critical shortage in the Upstate.
Power:Ed, the philanthropy arm of SC Student Loan Corporation, awarded the AnMed Foundation a grant in 2025 to support workforce development through the
Removing fear before tonsils
Surgery can be scary — even more so for children. That’s why Ashley Dashnaw, a certified surgical technologist at AnMed Medicus Surgery Center, and Dr. Justin Way, an ear, nose and throat specialist with AnMed, wrote “Jane Gets Her Tonsils Out.” The book helps children prepare for tonsillectomies by informing them, assuring them and comforting them through fiction.
Growing up healthy
AnMed teammates engage children every school year through Doclink, a physiciandriven nonprofit organization that links doctors, nurses and other health professionals to students at local elementary, middle and high schools to present targeted, developmentally appropriate health lessons.
Upstate’s Pre-Med Bootcamp, a program that engages college upperclassmen to better understand and consider medical careers.
Pilot programs funded by The Duke Endowment and The BlueCross BlueShield of SC Foundation are integrating behavioral health services into a pediatric practice. Assistance is available for children 5 to 17.
Katy Boggs, a nurse at AnMed, helped create more opportunities for people in need with a new Home Health Fund that addresses patients’ critical needs.
She even personally paid a power bill for a patient over the hot summer to ensure their safety.
Yet the compassion and personal involvement of AnMed teammates is not limited to direct connection.
Nurse Melissa Roberts underwent months of testing, injections and procedures to donate bone marrow to a man on another continent who she will likely never meet. That positive impact was delivered with far reach.
To the rhythm of community
As the festival’s title sponsor, AnMed has presented the annual Rhythm on the River celebration annually in Piedmont, where talented bands, delicious food, cold beverages and special crafts delight people of all ages.
Empowerment for all ages
Partnership with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Clemson University helps AnMed deliver important health information and advice to Upstate residents age 50 and older.
LEADERSHIP
Executive Leadership
William Kenley | Chief Executive Officer
Kaye Brewer | Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer
Michael Cunningham | Vice President, Community Health Partnerships, CEO AnMed Cannon
Lynn Gregory | Vice President, Medical Group
Jan Grigsby | Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Michael Haje | Vice President, Ambulatory Services
