Burkett Helps Break Ground on New USC College of Nursing Building

On February 21, Lexington Medical Center and the University of South Carolina broke ground on a state-of-the-art nursing simulation and teaching center on the hospital’s campus. LMC expects the project to be completed next year, welcoming USC College of Nursing students for the Fall ’24 semester.

Our own Donny Burkett is the chair of the LMC board of directors, so he was given the honor of participating in the ground breaking ceremony. He is pictured above with (from left to right) Melissa Taylor, vice president of Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer of LMC; Senator Nikki Setzler; Jeanette Andrews, dean of the USC College of Nursing; Michael Amiridis, president of USC; and Tod Augsburger, president and CEO of LMC.

We are proud that our Executive Vice President played a part in bringing this new facility to life and are excited for the prospect of a greater number of well-trained nurses being educated in the Midlands.

You can read more about this new facility and the partnership that made it happen here.