A new $55 million medical facility in South Carolina includes a special outdoor retreat built with a $100,000 donation from country music star Dolly Parton. The gift also honours her family's roots in the local area. The new Union Medical Center, part of the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, marked its opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The hospital was built on a 48-acre site along Furman L. Fendley Highway. One of its main features is an outdoor healing garden. It offers a peaceful, open-air space for patients recovering from illness, visiting families and hospital staff. Parton's donation went directly to the facility's Patient Enhancement Project, which paid for the garden's construction and landscaping. The space gives people a quiet place to rest away from hospital wards and treatment rooms.
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