Moving to Myrtle Beach · Healthcare
You've signed the contract. Now let's find the house.
You start at Grand Strand in eleven weeks, or Tidelands in March, or Conway as soon as your license transfers. You have a credentialing packet, a start date, and a weekend to look. I know exactly what that feels like, because I lived it.
I spent years in cardiac ICU and on the emergency response team at a Level I trauma center. My husband Brad is a CRNA. When you tell me you're on call every fourth night, I don't need it explained. I need to know which hospital, and we can start from there. Helping healthcare providers relocate is what I love to do.
Holly Turner · INNOVATE Real EstateStart with the hospital
Six hospitals, two counties, one coast. Where you work decides where we look.
The Grand Strand is sixty miles long. A house that's perfect for a Tidelands nurse in Murrells Inlet is a forty-minute commute for someone at Grand Strand Medical. So I don't start with "what are you looking for". I start with "where are you badging in", and we draw the circle from there.
Myrtle Beach · HCA Healthcare
Grand Strand Medical Center
Level I trauma center off 82nd Parkway, at the north end of Myrtle Beach proper. The one most of my medical clients are moving for.
Murrells Inlet · Tidelands Health
Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital
The hospital most people just call Tidelands. On Highway 17 Bypass at the south end of the Strand, a few minutes from the MarshWalk.
Georgetown · Tidelands Health
Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital
In the historic district, by the Sampit River. The quietest commute on this list.
Conway · Independent
Conway Medical Center
On Highway 501 between Conway and Carolina Forest, near Coastal Carolina University.
Little River · Carolina Forest · McLeod Health
McLeod Health Seacoast & Carolina Forest
Seacoast is on Highway 9 at Little River, the north end of the Strand, minutes from the North Carolina line. The newer Carolina Forest hospital is off Highway 31, between Myrtle Beach and Conway.
Hospital locations © OpenStreetMap contributors. Every listing on the browse pages is from the MLS and none are hand-picked.
The call window
Thirty minutes, door to door, at 3 a.m. and at 5 p.m.
If you take call, you already know the number. What you don't know yet is that the Grand Strand has two commutes: the one in February and the one in July. A house that's 22 minutes from the hospital in winter can be 45 in summer on Highway 17 or Highway 501 at the wrong hour. I'll tell you which roads those are, which neighborhoods have a back way out, and which "15 minutes from the hospital" listings are measured as the crow flies over the Waterway.
If you work nights, I'll also tell you which side of the house gets the afternoon sun. That one matters more than people think.
What I'll check for you
- Drive time at shift change
- Both seasons
- Second route out
- Mapped
- Hurricane evacuation zone
- Named
- Flood zone and insurance history
- Before you offer
- Gated-community access at 3 a.m.
- Confirmed
- Distance to the other hospitals
- In case you move systems
Buying on a contract
You don't have to wait for your first paycheck. Most of my medical clients don't.
I'm not a lender and I won't pretend to be one. But I've closed enough of these to know what a physician loan changes about the search, and it changes a lot.
Physician and other professional loan programs will typically let a doctor, dentist, CRNA or other qualifying clinician close on a signed employment contract, often before the first day of work, with little or no money down and no private mortgage insurance. Student debt is treated differently than on a conventional loan. Which professions qualify, and on what terms, is the lender's call, not mine.
What it means for us: we can be under contract on a house while you're still in your old city, close the week before orientation, and you move once. No short-term rental, no second move in six months, no storage unit in Conway.
Brad and I just bought our second home here on the physician loan program, and it was easy. Ask me and I'll introduce you to the lender we used, who does these every week. I don't get anything for it. I just know who answers the phone on a Sunday.
“A CRNA I worked with never saw the house in person. His wife and children did, and they moved in while he finished out his contract up north. He started at Grand Strand a few weeks later.”
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The timeline runs backwards from your start date
Credentialing takes longer than closing. We work from the day you badge in and set the search, the offer and the inspection week around it.
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Your contract is the document that matters
Have the signed offer letter handy before we look. It's what the lender wants to see first, and it tells me how much time we actually have.
From wherever you are now
Most of my clients buy from a distance. You'll be surprised how smooth this part is.
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One weekend, not four
By the time you fly in, the list is five houses, not twenty-five. I've already driven the commute from each one at the hour you'd be doing it.
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Everything else on video
Walkthroughs, the neighborhood at dusk, the sound of Highway 17 from the back porch. You'll hear it before you decide, not after.
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I tell you what is wrong with the house
Flood zone, insurance history, HOA litigation, the builder with a reputation. You hear it from me before the inspector, and sometimes before it's public.
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I stay after closing
The right insurance broker, a contractor who shows up, a pediatrician taking new patients, who to call about the irrigation. Relocating is a two-year project and closing is near the start of it.
Where it begins
Tell me the hospital and the start date. I'll take it from there.
Twenty minutes by video, at whatever hour your schedule allows, including the ones most agents don't answer. No listings until we've talked.
Nothing on this page is lending, legal or tax advice. Loan programs, eligibility and terms are set by individual lenders.