Kester Freeman is retired CEO of Palmetto Health, the largest integrated healthcare delivery system in South Carolina. Palmetto Health includes a regional teaching hospital and tertiary center as well as two acute care hospitals. The system also manages two rural hospitals and various other entities.
In 2004, Freeman spearheaded the creation of Health Sciences South Carolina, a healthcare research collaborative to improve the health and economic wellbeing of the state’s residents through a coordinated effort to advance health sciences research and education. The collaborative includes the Greenville Hospital System, the Medical University of South Carolina, Palmetto Health, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, the University of South Carolina and Clemson University.
Freeman remains actively involved in healthcare as a consultant, serving as member of the American Hospital Assocation’s Mental Health Task Force and as founding chairman of the South Carolina Hospital Association’s Universal Coverage Work Group.
This information appears at the Action for Better Healthcare blog.