Clemson Rural Health Innovation
Connecting Rural Communities
Innovation is critical to Clemson Rural Health’s mission. We work with a variety of project sponsors, community organizations, and governmental agencies to bring cutting edge programs and services to rural and underserved outcomes. The thread that ties each of our projects together is the goal of transforming health outcomes through reducing premature death, decreasing unecessary hospitalizations and improving quality of life.
Improving Food Security
From 2022 to 2025, 790 patients have been prescribed 6,799 boxes of fresh produce.
Eradicating Hepatitis C
This program screened 607 South Carolinians over the course of its funding.
Innovating Diabetes Management
Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death in South Carolina. Clemson Rural Health is committed to finding new and innovative care delivery models to improve access to care for those living with diabetes.
This includes Manage Together, a comprehensive intervention for women funded by the BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation to support the goals of Diabetes Free SC. Manage Together connects patients with nurse practitioners, registered dietitians, group education classes, cooking demonstrations, produce prescription boxes, preconception counseling, a remote patient monitoring technology.
Detecting Cancer Early
We also collaborate with the Colorectal Cancer Prevention Network and the South Carolina Cancer Alliance to provide men’s cancer screenings at each of our clinical sites.
Remote Patient Monitoring
Telehealth services have dramatically increased around the state, and with it the need for innovative technological strategies in the patients home. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) allows medical providers to lend patients health tracking equipment that sync automatically with a health monitoring application on the patients’ devices. Health care professionals are then able to regularly track health outcomes and receive alerts when patients report levels that put them at risk.
Clemson Rural Health plans to track data and health outcomes related to RPM in order to inform future policy and practice around the state.
Collaboration
We are thankful to Clemson University as well as our statewide and national partners and collaborators for their support in empowering Clemson Rural Health to help continue to meet the needs of South Carolinians.
