Take the district building by building, because the restrictions belong to named floors rather than to a category. Hollings is the only National Cancer Institute-designated center in South Carolina, so its marrow and infusion patients are frequently people who drove in from Beaufort, Georgetown or Florence and are staying for weeks. That floor wants no lily of any sort, nothing that sheds pollen, nothing perfumed, and — the part that surprises people — often no live soil either, which is why Teleflora's Sunny Kalanchoe is the wrong order today and the right one the week they go home. The Ashley River Tower carries heart, vascular, digestive and transplant care; its transplant and critical-care beds are the likeliest here to be closed to flowers outright, with a handoff to a relative downstairs as the only way in. At Shawn Jenkins, pediatric oncology, cardiac and intensive care sit on the same tight standard, latex balloons are refused on allergy grounds, and the neonatal intensive care unit takes nothing at all — for a NICU family the delivery that actually lands is one addressed to the Ronald McDonald House near the MUSC campus, or to whichever relative's house they are sleeping at. The Institute of Psychiatry polices objects, not pollen: no glass, no wire, no ribbon, nothing that comes apart in the hand. Roper's post-surgical and rehabilitation floors are the permissive end of the peninsula, and the VA on Bee Street is a federal building where the driver signs in like anyone else.
Across the water the map loosens and the shops line up against it neatly. Bon Secours St. Francis on Henry Tecklenburg Drive shares ZIP 29414 with Blossoms Andstems, which makes West Ashley the one corner of this market where the florist is genuinely around the corner from the hospital. Trident Medical Center on Medical Plaza Drive in North Charleston, with the Encompass Health rehabilitation hospital on the same street, is Creech's own end of the county rather than a trip downtown. Over the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge sit East Cooper Medical Center on Hospital Drive and Roper St. Francis Mount Pleasant off Highway 17; the widened 60-mile radius also reaches Summerville Medical Center on Midland Parkway, the Roper St. Francis Berkeley hospital at Nexton, and Colleton Medical Center in Walterboro. Those runs deliver fine; they are simply not last-minute, since an order placed at 1:55 for Walterboro asks a driver for ninety minutes of Lowcountry two-lane after the cutoff. Two addressing notes save more deliveries here than anything else. Put the patient's name exactly as admissions typed it plus the unit, because MUSC lets people keep themselves out of the patient directory and when that box is ticked the front desk is not permitted to say the person is even in the building. And do not send to MUSC Rutledge Tower at 135 Rutledge Avenue — it looks like a hospital from the street and it is outpatient clinics, so nobody is upstairs to receive anything.