Rural Health Management Executive Team

Singleton Health Center and Medical Center of North
Managed by Rural Health Management, LLC

Rural Health Management, LLC is a practice management company providing general health care and related professional services. RHM contracts with health centers in the United States to provide health care services.

Rural Health Management evolved out of Singleton Health Center that was established in 2002 by Dr. Monnie Singleton. Singleton Health Center currently includes Singleton Health Center in Orangeburg and Medical Center of North. Both locations are in South Carolina.

Dr. Singleton established the North site in 2003. Dr. Singleton is founder, president and chief executive officer of Rural Health Management. The sites are certified Rural Health Clinics.

RHM distinguishes itself from other health service organizations by focusing on rural health care and by the inclusion of alternative and complementary services and therapies. There is an emphasis on holistic humanitarian health care services and a genuine concern for the spiritual well being of the patient.

Health service delivery will be supported with an extensive telemedicine and health information technology infrastructure – "Pathways to Health and Healing."

Dr. Monnie Singleton

Board certified: Family Practice
Medical degree: University of Southern California School of Medicine
Medical License: Holds medical licenses in Delaware, Oregon and South Carolina

Dr. Singleton heads the management team of Rural Health Management. He received his Bachelor of Science degree Magna Cum Laude from South Carolina State University in 1978. He subsequently attended the University of Southern California’s School of Medicine and received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1983. He has over 20 years of experience in providing health care to rural areas

Following his residency in Delaware in 1986, Dr. Singleton became clinical director of Yellowhawk Clinic on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon. In 1989 he returned to rural South Carolina to become the medical director of the Ehrhardt Family Practice Center & the Allendale Rural Health Program where he administered a $1.5 million budget for clinical services and pharmacy operations.

From 1992 to 1996, Dr. Singleton was the owner and president and chief executive of Denmark Medical Center in South Carolina, where he directed the clinical care for 18,000 patients and their families. In 1999 he became a director of the South Carolina State Office of Rural Health’s Community and Rural Health Program. During this time he also worked to develop and administer the Center of Excellence in Minority and Rural Health at Voorhees College in Denmark.

He has also advised the U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services as a member of both the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and the National Health Service Corps. Under his leadership the company has consistently exceeded its original goals and objectives.

RHM plans to open other medical centers in other parts of South Carolina, across the United States and internationally. The newest South Carolina centers will be the Medical Center of Santee and the Medical Center of Gaston.