CareSouth Carolina’s Kaitlin Hughes Honored With Statewide Telehealth Award

CareSouth Carolina is proud to announce that Kaitlin Hughes, Director of Mobile and Telehealth Services, has been awarded the Telehealth Trailblazer Award from Palmetto Care Connections. This award recognizes a leader in South Carolina who is advancing telehealth innovation, strengthening partnerships, and expanding access to care for rural and underserved communities.

Hughes was selected for her strategic efforts in growing CareSouth Carolina’s telehealth footprint, particularly through its School-Based Health Program and Mobile Services. 

Under her direction, CareSouth Carolina has taken major steps to ensure that children and families in rural areas can receive care where they live, study, and work—removing barriers related to distance, transportation, and availability.

“We are honored to receive this recognition,” said Hughes. “Our team has worked tirelessly to make sure that children and families in rural areas have the same access to quality healthcare as anyone else. Telehealth allows us to meet people where they are—whether that’s in a classroom, a community center, or a mobile unit parked right in their neighborhood.”

In recent years, CareSouth Carolina has invested in strengthening remote care offerings, including virtual medical and behavioral health visits, digital health technology, and school-based telehealth partnerships across multiple districts. These programs allow students to receive care for routine medical needs, chronic illnesses, and behavioral support without leaving school.

CareSouth Carolina’s ROADS mobile initiative (Reaching Out and Delivering Services) offers comprehensive, remote medical care to the communities we serve and features fully-equipped medical exam units. The organization’s continued expansion of telehealth and mobile services plays a critical role in improving outcomes for rural children and families, keeping students in the classroom, reducing emergency visits, and increasing access to preventive care across the Pee Dee region.

CareSouth Carolina is a private, non-profit community health center delivering patient-centered health and life services in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina. CareSouth Carolina operates centers in Bennettsville, Bishopville, Cheraw, Chesterfield, Dillon, Hartsville, Lake View, Latta, McColl and Society Hill.

Services provided by CareSouth Carolina include family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, women's services, OB/GYN, HIV/AIDS primary care, infectious disease primary care, IV therapy, substance abuse prevention, dental, chiropractic services, pharmacy, senior support services, family support services, clinical counseling, laboratory, ultrasound, X-Ray, agricultural worker health services, podiatry, and veterans choice provider.