Updated: March 31, 2026

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. 

Updated: Nov. 10, 2025

Day Care Facilities for Adults offer a program of individual and group activities and therapies in a group setting 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: March 30, 2026

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.

Updated: July 30, 2026

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.

Updated: Feb. 26, 2026

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Updated: Feb. 26, 2026

To operate as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) in South Carolina, you must gain a South Carolina Emergency Medical Technician certification from the South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH). To qualify, you must satisfy the following requirements:

Step 1: Successfully complete all sections of a DPH-approved EMT course including the didactic, practical, and clinical requirements

1. A practitioner or pharmacist or authorized delegate who requests information and certifies that the requested information is for the purpose of providing medical or pharmaceutical treatment to a bona fide patient;
2. An individual who requests the individual's own prescription monitoring information in accordance with procedures established pursuant to state law;
3. A designated representative of the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation responsible for the licensure, regulation, or discipline of practitioners, pharmacists, or other persons aut

Updated: Sept. 8, 2026

All dispensers of Schedule II, III, and IV controlled substances are required to collect and report the following information to the data repository managed by Bamboo Health:

PMP Confidentiality Laws, Reporting Violations and Program Fines and Penalities

SECTION 44-53-1680. Violations and penalties.

(A) A dispenser or authorized delegate who knowingly fails to submit prescription monitoring information to drug control as required by this article, or who knowingly submits incorrect prescription information, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.