Providence Hospital Northeast-About Us

Providence Hospital Northeast is a 46-bed community hospital established in 1999 that offers a range of medical services in surgery, emergency care, women's and children's services and rehabilitation. Providence Northeast is home to Providence Orthopaedic & NeuroSpine Institute, which provides medical and surgical treatment of diseases and injuries of the bones, joints and spine. 

Owned by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Augustine (CSA) Health System, Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals is known statewide for its compassionate care. Our non-profit organization is licensed for 322 beds and is comprised of four entities: Providence Hospital, Providence Heart & Vascular Institute, Providence Hospital Northeast and Providence Orthopaedic & Neuro Spine Institute. A faith-based health care facility in the Midlands area of South Carolina, Providence employs more than 1,800 caring individuals.

Our Mission

Providence Hospital, located in downtown Columbia, is a 247-bed hospital founded in 1938 by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Augustine to minister to the community, in both body and spirit.

Our Vision

As a Catholic, faith-based organization, Providence Hospitals will be nationally recognized for quality and service. 

We commit ourselves to the values of:

• Respect that values dignity and sacredness of life from conception to death.
• Compassion that comes from the heart, is expressed in concern, empathy and support, and leads us to respond to persons experiencing need, pain, suffering and loss.
• Collaboration that fosters the sharing of gifts and talents, encourages interaction, empowers others for service and facilitates networking with individuals and organizations.
• Courage that identifies need, explores options with integrity, makes difficult decisions wisely and takes risks in responding creatively to human needs.
• Justice that develops right relationships, seeks the common good, addresses needs of the poor and vulnerable, and acts as responsible stewards of all resources.

Our History

An Extraordinary Act of Faith

The opening of Providence Hospital in Columbia, SC in 1938 was the result of an extraordinary act of faith by an extraordinary collection of people. 

Father Martin C. Murphy of St. Peter's Church, with little more than a fervent belief that Columbia and South Carolina needed the kind of quality health care synonymous with Catholic hospitals, purchased an 18-acre tract in the heart of the state's capital city for the new hospital. 

Columbia businessman James B. Younginer donated the down payment for the property. Interestingly, he was not Catholic, but he was so impressed with the treatment his wife had received in a Catholic hospital in California, he thought the people of South Carolina deserved the same type of faith-based care. 

And perhaps the greatest manifestation of faith was that of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, a Catholic order in Ohio that mortgaged its motherhouse in Cleveland to finance the new hospital in Columbia, a city the Sisters had never even seen. 

But when the Sisters of Charity founded Providence, they established more than just a new hospital. They also established an extraordinary commitment to the lives of the people of our community.