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Clinics
Beaufort Jasper
Hampton
Comprehensive
Health Services
Inc
721 N Okatie Hwy 170 Okatie............843 987-7400
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Center For Medication Management
12-B Arley Way Suite 101 Blftn..................843 815-2949
Coastal Empire Mental Health Center
Ridgeland ..................................................843 726-8030
Beaufort .....................................................843 524-3378
Hampton ....................................................803 943-2828
Walterboro .................................................843 549-1551
Marshlands Dialysis Center
28 Rice Pond Rd Rdglnd............................843 987-0110
St Paul’s Medical Group
7610 Hwy 164 Hlywd.................................843 889-8018
SAME DAY CLINIC
Walk-In Medical Care
Everyday Illness
Minor Injuries • Lab Tests
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New Patients Welcome
WALK-IN HOURS:
Monday - Friday
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
(843) 322-1818
2210 B Mossy Oaks Rd
Port Royal, SC
Clinics-Chiropractic
Ridgeland Chiropractic Center
124 S Railroad Ave Ridgeland.................843 726-5990
Clinics-Dialysis
DaVita Ridgeland Dialysis Center
112 Weathersbee St Rdglnd.......................843 717-9379
DaVita Walterboro Dialysis
302 Ruby St Wltrbr....................................843 549-6743
Dialysis Clinics Inc
300 Midtown Dr Bft....................................843 521-4300
Fresenius Medical Care Of Walterboro SC
904 N Jefferies Blvd Wltrbr........................843 782-4900
Low Country Dialysis Facility
10 Johnny Morrall Cir PtRyl.......................843 524-2373
Marshlands Dialysis Center
28 Rice Pond Rd Rdglnd............................843 987-0110
Clinics-Medical
American Family Care/Urgent Care
272 Robert Smalls Pkwy Ste 320
Beaufort....................................................843 521-4357
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PROFILE
Barbara DeLoach — better known to
most folks as Cooky — gestures almost
dismissively toward her long and
impressive resume and turns her focus to a
handwritten screed in front of her.
“That’s good,” she says of her lengthy list
of personal accomplishments, “but this is
the really exciting stuff.”
Before her are notes from her
genealogical research about her family’s
history — the Aimar line — which can be
traced back to ninth-century France and
includes the founder of the House of
Bourbon. This Aimar lived in Souvigny, the
Bourbonais area of France. Some of the
pieces of the puzzle are missing, but
DeLoach has evidence she comes from the
French royal line that includes Marie
Antoinette.
Still, she is mistaken — this is not more
exciting than the work DeLoach has done
right here in Beaufort.
The family line also includes a history of
pharmacists, and that’s the tradition
DeLoach continued and advanced as a
pioneer in the industry. Her uncles, Charles
and Neal Aimar, were pharmacists in
Beaufort, and DeLoach was involved in the
family pharmacy while growing up in
North Carolina.
“I grew up in my daddy’s drugstore, and
I was helping him dust bottles and actually
folding powder papers when I could barely
reach up to the counter,” DeLoach recalls.
She initially thought she would break
that line and attended Queens College of
Charlotte with the intention of becoming a
missionary before changing course and
transferring to the University of North
Carolina to study pharmacy, earning
honors as the outstanding student in her
graduating class at Chapel Hill. She then
earned a master’s degree in histochemistry
from the University of South Carolina.
DeLoach quickly rose in her field,
becoming active in the state pharmacy
association — eventually becoming
president — and working with the state
board of pharmacy and later serving as
chairman.
Barbara DeLoach
by Justin Jarrett
During that time, she attended a
conference at which she was introduced to
a new technological advance in the field —
home-based intravenous drug infusion
was gaining popularity, and Medicare was
poised to begin covering the new
treatment.
“They wanted to get people out of the
hospitals quicker,” she recalls. “It saves
money, and you’re not exposed to the big,
bad germs that are in the hospitals.
“I decided I was going to do that myself.”
DeLoach went out of her way to study
every component of the new practice and
in 1985 established Medical Specialties, Inc.
— the first privately-owned home IV
infusion service in South Carolina. In 1990,
she added Atlantic Home Health to
provide home-based nursing, and was able
to provide patients with home IV infusion,
medical equipment, and nurses all with
one call from the hospital.
“That just grew like crazy,” she says. “Like
the Dollar General stores.”
DeLoach sold the initial company to
Savannah’s Memorial Health in 1994 but
returned to the specialized field in 2000
when she established IV Specialists, Inc., to
provide the same services. The second
company was sold to Ambient Healthcare
in 2012.
“The more complicated the patient was,
the more intriguing it was,” DeLoach
recalls. “The stories and the characters that
I ran into were just amazing.”
Barbara is married to Robert DeLoach,
also descending from the French Bourbon
line. Barbara, with Robert, is a member of
The Baptist Church of Beaufort. She has
also served as a deacon and elder in the
First Presbyterian Church.
Not surprisingly, DeLoach inspired four
of her five children to follow her into the
medical field in one way or another — her
eldest son is an ophthalmologist in North
Carolina, one daughter is a pediatrician,
another is a veterinarian, and a third works
in finance for a non-profit hospital. The
fifth, her second-born son, inherited his
mother’s entrepreneurial spirit and
developed the world's first interdisciplinary
bachelor of arts and masters of fine arts
degree offerings in sound design at
Savannah College of Art and Design.
“I say my children have been successful
not because of me, but in spite of me,”
DeLoach says with a laugh.
Once again, she is almost certainly
mistaken. Centuries from now, her
ancestors might gesture dismissively
toward a list of their own accomplishments
and point toward notes about their
ancestors — particularly a woman named
Cooky, whose ingenuity left a lasting mark.