The Palmetto Health Baptist Parkridge hospital in the city of Columbia, South Carolina, US, has partnered with spa and plastic surgery clinic Healing Waters to create a new spa to provide relaxation treatments to hospital patients.

Palmetto Health is the largest not-for-profit healthcare resource in the Midlands of South Carolina, providing inpatient and outpatient services to citizens from across the region.

The hospital, which opened in March after a significant refurbishment, is expected to debut the Healing Waters-operated 6,931sq ft (644sq m) spa in Q4 of this year.

Complimentary services for patients of the hospital campus include refresher facials and postpartum massages for new mothers who have just delivered their babies. They will also have access to patient discounts on other Healing Waters products at the Palmetto Health Healing Waters boutique.

“As a healthcare provider, we believe in caring for the whole person – mind, body and spirit – so this opportunity to form a strategic alliance with Healing Waters brings us closer to fulfilling our vision of providing extraordinary care for every patient, every time,” said Sarah Richter Kirby, acute care executive of Baptist Parkridge. “To be able to provide complimentary spa services to patients that help them relax is a wonderful addition to the excellent medical care that our team members are already providing.”

The spa will also be available to the public for traditional spa treatments, such as facials, massage therapy, body rituals and medical aesthetic procedures including Botox and dermal fillers.

Healing Waters is a spa and medical aesthetics company and its first spa launched in 2002 in Wichita, Kansas. This was followed by a location in Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina that debuted in 2005.