October 20, 2017
West Columbia, S.C. – Lexington Medical Center is pleased to welcome Amanda R. Vartanian, MD, to the hospital’s network of care as a pediatrician at Lexington Pediatric Practice.
Dr. Vartanian joins the board-certified physicians and nurse practitioner at Lexington Pediatric Practice to offera full range of child-health services, including routine checkups, vaccinations, diagnostic services and minor procedures. As the first pediatric practice in the town of Lexington, Lexington Pediatric Practice has served the community for more than 25 years.
A summa cum laude graduate of Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, Dr. Vartanian earned her Doctor of Medicine from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, graduating first in her class. She then completed her residency at Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital at the USC School of Medicine in Columbia.
During her residency, she provided clinical care for patients in a variety of care settings, including pediatric and neonatal intensive care, newborn nursery, pediatric emergency care and subspecialty clinics.
Dr. Vartanian is accepting new patients.
Lexington Pediatric Practice
811 West Main Street, Suite 204
Lexington, SC 29072
3240 Sunset Boulevard
West Columbia, SC 29169
(803) 359-8855
LexPediatricPractice.com
Lexington Medical Center is a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It anchors a health care network that includes five community medical centers and employs a staff of more than 8,000 health care professionals. The hospital is ranked best hospital in the Columbia Metro and #2 hospital in South Carolina by U.S. News & World Report and was named one of the “Best Places to Work in South Carolina” by SC Biz News, in partnership with the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and Best Companies Group. Lexington Medical Cancer Center is an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence and has a clinical research and education affiliation with MUSC Hollings Cancer Center. The network includes a cardiovascular program recognized by the American College of Cardiology as South Carolina's first HeartCARE Center. The network also has an occupational health center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, an Alzheimer's care center and more than 70 physician practices. Lexington Medical Center operates one of the busiest Emergency departments in South Carolina, treating nearly 100,000 patients each year. The hospital delivers more than 4,000 babies each year and performs more than 25,000 surgeries. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies.
