Welcome to Pee Dee Hearing Center
Pee Dee Hearing Center is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit community-based organization that provides affordable, diagnostic hearing care to people of all ages in Florence, SC. With the help of many wonderful volunteers, we have served over 300,000 individuals over the past 50 years. We are a small, local hearing center and provide a wide range of services from diagnostic hearing evaluations to hearing technology.
Pee Dee Hearing Center is proudly serving the 12-county Pee Dee Region in the Northeast corner of South Carolina, particularly the counties of Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marlboro, Marion, and Williamsburg.
Why Choose Pee Dee Hearing Center?
Pee Dee Hearing Center is community driven and people focused. We help patients of all ages and are the only facility in Florence to treat pediatrics. We work with the local school systems to provide hearing screenings for students and collaborate with students’ families to provide strategies for success in the classroom.
Our patients always notice how welcoming and friendly our office is, because we do our best to make everyone feel like family.
What to Expect at Your First Appointment
When you visit our hearing center for your first appointment, you will always be treated with kindness and respect. We will have you fill out some paperwork that one of our hearing specialists will go over with you. Your appointment will be broken into a few parts.
1. Conversation:
We will have a conversation to get to know you better and ask you some questions about your current hearing ability and what your goals are.
2. Ear Exam:
We will perform a physical examination of your outer and middle ear using an otoscope.
3. Hearing Test:
The hearing test is easy, quick, and painless. The purpose is to assess how well you can hear various sounds at different frequencies.
4. Results:
We will go over your results which are recorded on an audiogram. If you have any questions, we are happy to answer them.
5. Recommendations:
We will go over your results which are recorded on an audiogram. If you have any questions, we are happy to answer them.
Preferred Provider of the NFL Players Association
Pee Dee Hearing Center is a preferred hearing care provider for the NFL Players Association’s Professional Athletes Foundation. Through this partnership, the PAF aims to bring better hearing to former professional athletes and their fans across the nation. Together, we spread awareness, help players in need of hearing care, and collect data on the connection between hearing loss and professional football.
Our Reviews
My work is my main effort to make the world a better place and my hearing, impaired since childhood, is vital for these efforts. I started wearing hearing aids when I was 26 years old and likely needed them earlier. I tried to cover deficits with additional effort during schooling, but ultimately, I chose a job where variables affecting sound propagation are manageable. Each time I've had new hearing aids I've experienced the joy of rediscovering events I hadn't known were lacking.
The hearing aids you recently fitted for me have been more liberating than any pair to date in my 64 years. I now have the convenience of a smartphone app that allows volume control and streaming online content with my hearing aids. More importantly, I now rarely ask people to repeat themselves. The vast majority of people are polite when I ask for volume or diction clarity help, but most everyone is slightly annoyed that they have to stop the stream of their thoughts to provide this assistance. What I discovered is that I had withdrawn from that annoyance and had braced myself for this appearance of disfavor even though I know rationally that these facial expressions aren't intended judgmentally. I found this out as these elements are no longer clouding my communications. Those I engage in conversation remain relaxed and I experience infinitely less tension at the end of the day.
Thank you for your assistance,
Respectfully,Paul Lowe, MD, LFAPA
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