Hurricane Helene: Public Health Department Closures

Latest updates: Hurricane Helene

Our public health departments' hours of operation may be affected by power and staffing outages. This means that some closures may not appear on the state government office delays and closings map. The health and safety of our employees and our clients remains our highest priority. We are working to get services restored as safely and quickly as possible.

Learn more about DPH's role with hurricanes, floods, and weather emergencies.

Hospitals may not be established, operated, or maintained in South Carolina without first obtaining a license from DPH in the manner provided by Article 3, Chapter 7, Title 44 of the South Carolina Code of Laws and DPH regulations. The most commonly used DPH forms pertaining to hospital licensure requirements are provided on this page.

Amended Reporting Requirement Updates

Until we are able to make permanent changes to our electronic system, we request hospitals and infirmaries to make incident/accident reports as follows:

  • For the incident report required pursuant to Section 701.B, which is required to be submitted within twenty-four (24) hours or by the next regular business day from when the facility had reasonable cause to believe an incident occurred, please utilize the “24-hour Report” as the type of report.  
  • For the written investigation report required pursuant Section 701.C, which is required to be submitted within seven (7) business days from when the facility had reasonable cause to believe an incident occurred, please utilize the “10 Day Report” as the type of report.
  • To the extent the reportable incident is not included in the drop-down list of types of accident/incident, please select “Other” and further describe the reportable incident in the following box.  

Licensure Applications and Emergency Services

As we make these updates and with respect to Section 1201.D.4, we ask hospitals to include their emergency services classifications for its on-campus emergency service, and if applicable, off-campus emergency service, on a separate attachment/enclosure to the hospital licensure application. 

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