 A newborn nursery suite opened in 1968 and obtained a nursery for well babies and an intensive care nursery with equipment to monitor heart rate and respiration as well as a transport isolette with its own battery power so that newborns could be safely transported between hospitals.In 1976, SGH technicians began using ultrasound equipment to monitor pregnancies.An endoscopy department opened, and in 1977, the hospital obtained a $550,000 EMI scanner, the first full-body CT scanner in South Carolina.