Lexington County + Richland County + the Capital Region. The Phase 1 proving ground for the South Carolina Chamber — every sector wired here first, every PHIT feed deep-piloted at the county level, every relationship templated for replication across the other three regions.
For the first time in over a decade, both the Midlands' anchor hospital systems have brand-new chief executives within seven months of each other: Jennifer Montgomery at Prisma Health Midlands (since May 2025) and Kirk Jenkins at the rebranded Lexington Health (effective Jan 1 2026). Add the University of South Carolina flagship under President Amiridis, Midlands Tech, 5 Lexington County school districts + 2 Richland districts, three HBCUs (Benedict, Allen, plus Claflin within reach), the seat of state government, and the Capital Region's full press of state agencies — and you have one geographic footprint where the Chamber of Health system can prove every claim before scaling.
The State Director's Table filtered to Greater Columbia. Each card is a click into the live Director's Table view, sector-filtered.
The Capital Region's live PHIT slice. These are the indicators every Greater Columbia Director sees each morning. Sources: County Health Rankings, CDC PLACES, SC DPH, USC Arnold School of Public Health.
Ranked among the healthier SC counties on health outcomes; chronic-disease prevalence remains the open lever.
Mid-pack on outcomes; meaningful disparities by ZIP and race that PHIT can disaggregate.
Capital Region adult obesity prevalence — bingo-card driver, workforce-health driver.
Lexington Health + Prisma Midlands combined avoidable ED rate — the lever for primary-care + FQHC channeling.
Adults stuck in the non-expansion coverage gap. The PHIT story that frames every Greater Columbia funder pitch.
Capital Region's allocation from SC's ~$360M settlement over 18 years. PHIT tracks county-level spend + treatment outcomes.
Three moves the Advisor walks the Capital Region Director through on Day 1: open the State Director's Table, run a Capital-Region filter, log the first three Tier 1 contacts (Montgomery, Jenkins, Amiridis).