Cooperative Health
Cooperative Health
Cooperative Health is a safety net provider. We serve patients from all communities, all experiences, and all walks of life. We are composed of passionate healthcare professionals who believe in healing with empathy and compassion. We deliver our care with dignity and respect. We see our patients and families as neighbors. We build rapport and create longitudinal relationships to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Today’s healthcare is big business. Often the people who lose the most are the patients and the clinicians. Cooperative Health shields its clinicians from big business. Cooperative Health provides its clinicians with the necessary tools to achieve exceptional outcomes and deliver an extraordinary patient experience. At Cooperative Health, we are returning the HEART to medicine – Bringing Humanity Back to Healthcare.
For the pristine beaches, beautiful mountains, family oriented communities, low cost of living, moderate winters, and outstanding quality of life, people from across the United States and the world are choosing South Carolina as their professional destination of choice.
Family oriented mission minded clinicians are encouraged to apply!!!
Company Information
Cooperative Health is an FQHC headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina. We serve about 52,000 patients throughout a four county radius. We accept all insurance programs and offer a sliding fee scale for the uninsured.
As a health care system, we provide the follow services: Pediatrics, Adult and Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Dentistry, Podiatry, Psychiatry, Counseling, Orthopedics, Radiology, and Pharmacy services. Primary care teams are supported by integrated behavioral health and social services team members.
Cooperative Health provides special niche community services that include Homeless and Refugee Resettlement services, health care services to Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural workers, Ryan White HIV services, Hepatitis C treatment, Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT), Walk-In care, and an Adolescent and Young Adult Program.
All primary care offices are PCMH recognized. Cooperative Health was the 2022 recipient of the HRSA Silver Badge for Quality. Athena is the company EMR. Up-to-Date is available to all clinicians.
Cooperative Health offers a regionally competitive salary, relocation and CME reimbursement, and a full spectrum of additional benefits. As an FQHC, Cooperative Health is a National Health Service Corp (NHSC) recognized scholarship recipient site. Employment with Cooperative Health makes one eligible to apply for NHSC and the NHSC Nurse Corp loan repayment programs. Employment also makes one eligible to apply for and participate in a rural provider incentive program.
Company History
Working in the Spirit of the Good Samaritan, Dr. Hamilton persevered. He continued to provide much needed pediatric care. In 1993, the practice expanded to include adult primary care and became recognized as a non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center. In 1997, Ob-Gyn services were added. In 2000, the first Federal grant was received.
Over the next 24 years, the full complement of specialty services and other programs were added.
Over the course of its 40+ year history, the mission has remained the same. To provider accessible, high quality compassionate healthcare in the Spirit of the Good Samaritan.