Updated: Dec. 1, 2025

Licensing Applications

• Abortion Clinic (pdf)
• Adult Day Care Facility (pdf)
• Ambulatory Surgical Facility (pdf)
• Birthing Center (pdf)
• Body Piercing Facility (pdf)
• Community Residential Care

Updated: Nov. 10, 2025

Updated: Nov. 10, 2025

A hearing aid specialist is an individual licensed by DPH to engage in the practice of measuring human hearing by an audiometer and by other established means for fitting, making selections, adaptations, or sale of hearing aids. It also includes the making of impressions for earmolds. 

• Department Access to Records and Information (pdf)
• Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) at Licensed Birthing Centers (12/15/10) (pdf)
• Noted Trends on Inspections of Renal Dialysis Facilities (pdf)
• Vapor Concentration Monitoring -

• Regulation 60-91, Standards for Licensing Ambulatory Surgical Facilities (pdf)
• TB Risk Assessment for Ambulatory Surgical Facilities (.docx)

Updated: Nov. 10, 2025

Day Care Facilities for Adults offer in a group setting a program of individual and group activities and therapies for adults 18 years of age or older. The program provides community-based day care services for adults in need of a supportive setting, thereby preventing unnecessary institutionalization. The program provides a minimum of four (4) and a maximum of fourteen (14) hours of operation a day.

Updated: Nov. 10, 2025

A Community Residential Care Facility (CRCF) offers room and board and, unlike a boarding house, provides/coordinates a degree of personal care for a period of time in excess of 24 consecutive hours for two or more persons, 18 years old or older, not related to the licensee within the third degree of consanguinity.

A CRCF is designed to accommodate residents’ changing needs and preferences, maximize residents’ dignity, autonomy, privacy, independence, and safety, and encourage family and community involvement.

• Forms
• Facility-Specific Info
• File a Health Facility Complaint

EMT candidates who successfully complete a South Carolina-approved EMT Education course that uses the National EMS Education Standards developed by NHTSA, successfully pass the National Registry EMT-Education Requirements, and receive subsequent South Carolina certification as an EMT, are authorized to perform the following skilled activities (all skills can be used on adult, child, and infant patients unless otherwise stated). See below for more detailed information for EMT, AEMT, and Paramedic education requirements.