The South Carolina Menopause Collaborative (SCMC) is a statewide initiative created to transform menopause care, education, and public awareness across South Carolina. We are a group of clinicians, educators, researchers, and community advocates dedicated to building the first coordinated menopause care model in the United States.

We exist because menopause has been overlooked, underfunded, and misunderstood for generations—despite touching nearly every aspect of a woman’s health and identity. Our work is rooted in the belief that women deserve informed, evidence-based care, and South Carolina deserves to lead.

SCMC is not simply a project or a program; it is a movement. It is a statewide coalition built around the idea that women in South Carolina, from rural mountain towns to coastal communities, should have equal access to skilled menopause expertise, reliable information, and compassionate support.

We envision a future where menopause care in South Carolina is coordinated, modern, scientific, and accessible—across hospitals, clinics, universities, and communities.

Our goal is to position South Carolina as the first state in the nation to formalize menopause care at a statewide level:

• integrating clinician education,

• referral networks,

• academic partnerships,

• public health research,

• patient-facing navigation tools, and

• policy advocacy.

We want women, clinicians, and lawmakers to look to South Carolina as the blueprint for menopause care done right.

SCMC was founded by nurse practitioner Hali Neely, a lifelong South Carolinian raised in rural Westminster, SC.

The idea for this collaborative began inside exam rooms—listening to women describe hot flashes, sleep loss, sexual pain, brain fog, anxiety, and relationship stress with nowhere to go and nobody to guide them. It grew through frustration with outdated training models and through hopeful conversations with clinicians who wanted to do better.

From those conversations, a vision took shape:
South Carolina could lead.

The state had the ingredients—medical schools, nursing schools, expert clinicians, engaged communities, and a growing cultural shift around women’s health. It only needed structure, connection, and leadership.