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HOPEHEALTH WELCOMES NEW PROVIDER

By Joel Mercado posted 3 hours ago

  

 




FLORENCE, S.C. (June 1, 2026) – HopeHealth welcomes Stuart Powell, DNP, FNP-C, to HopeHealth.

Stuart Powell, DNP, FNP-C, is a nurse practitioner at the Lake City School-Based Clinic located at Lake City High School. The center provides primary and behavioral health care to students, teachers, and staff of the Florence District 3 Schools.

Additionally, she serves in the Department of Senior Health, providing annual wellness visits to HopeHealth patients in the Clarendon and Williamsburg area. These encounters offer Medicare patients an assessment of physical and cognitive health, and afford an opportunity to update immunizations, screening tests, and other preventive services.

She completed an Associate of Science degree in nursing at Horry Georgetown Technical College in Georgetown, South Carolina, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree at Chamberlain College of Nursing in Addison, Illinois, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice from The Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina.

Her clinical interests are family medicine and disease prevention. She is a member of the South Carolina Nurses Association, American Nurses Association, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She is also actively involved in her church and the Baptist Nursing Fellowship.


 

HopeHealth is a nonprofit leader in providing affordable, expert primary and specialty health care services for all ages in Florence, Aiken (Infectious Diseases), Clarendon, Orangeburg, and Williamsburg Counties. Our federally qualified health centers are the health care home of choice for nearly 85,000 patients. To become a patient, call 843-667-9414 or visit hope-health.org.

 

 

 
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