 The Emergency Center at SMC on East Wood Street is designated as a Level I Trauma Center (one of only four in South Carolina), certified to begin treatment of any injury 24 hours a day, including massive trauma.The Emergency Center, which opened in its current space in 2004, is one of the busiest emergency departments in the Carolinas, with more than 93,000 patients seen annually.The PMC and UMC emergency departments see approximately 45,000 and 21,000 patient visits annually, respectively.