ORANGEBURG, S.C. (WIS) - The University of South Carolina’s (USC) Brain Health Network is expanding its effort to combat healthcare deserts across the Midlands with a new clinic in Orangeburg designed to cut down wait times for patients seeking cognitive health care.

USC is partnering with Hope Health to launch the new brain health clinic inside Hope Health’s Orangeburg facility. The clinic aims to reduce evaluation wait times from several months to four to five weeks.

“The evaluation with a specialist it would take several months, not uncommonly nine months, sometimes a year, a year and a half,” said Dr. Leonardo Bonilha. “What we did was stitch things together so that somebody could be evaluated faster. They are contacted sooner, and the process shortens that long, many-month time span

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