Clinical Operating Guidelines Draft 

Please email all suggestions, recommendations, and corrections to protocols@dph.sc.gov. This email is only for comments on the clinical operating guidelines revisions. These are only drafts. 

A Crisis Stabilization Unit Facility is a facility, other than a health care facility, operated by the Department of Mental Health, or operated in partnership with the Department of Mental Health that provides a short-term residential program, offering psychiatric stabilization services and brief, intensive crisis services to individuals eighteen (18) years of age or older, twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week.

THIS INFORMATION IS FOR LABORATORIES OPERATING IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA ONLY. IF YOU ARE A LABORATORY OPERATING IN A STATE OTHER THAN SOUTH CAROLINA PLEASE CONTACT THE CLIA PROGRAM IN YOUR STATE.

CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments)

The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) program oversees laboratories that test human specimens for diagnostic purposes. These include hospital laboratories, stand-alone diagnostic labs, and doctors' offices.

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Tattooing is to indelibly mark or color the skin by subcutaneous introduction of nontoxic dyes or pigments. The practice of tattooing does not include the removal of tattoos, the practice of branding, cutting, scarification, skin braiding, or the mutilation of any part of the body.

DPH licenses midwives in accordance with Regulation 60-24, Standards for Licensing Midwives.

Requirements for Licensure

Individuals must pass both the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) national written examination and an oral examination administered by DPH in addition to other prescribed requirements on page 8 of Regulation 60-24.

License Renewal

License renewal is every two years with continuing education required.

An Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF-IID) is a facility that serves four (4) or more persons with intellectual disability or persons with related conditions and provides health or rehabilitative services on a regular basis to individuals whose mental and physical conditions require services including room, board, and active treatment for their intellectual disability or related conditions.

An in-home care provider is a business entity, corporation, or association, whether operated for profit or not for profit, that for compensation directly provides or makes provision for in-home care services through:

Freestanding or mobile technology is medical equipment used for diagnosis or treatment. The equipment is owned or operated by a person, other than a health care facility (as defined in S.C. Code Ann. § 44- 7-130 (1976, as amended)), for which the total cost is in excess of that prescribed by R.61-15 and for which specific standards or criteria are prescribed in the State Health Plan.

Facilities for chemically dependent or addicted persons provide care, treatment or services for psychoactive substance abuse or dependence to two or more persons (not related to the licensee) and their families.

Care is provided based on an individual treatment plan including diagnostic treatment, individual and group counseling, family therapy, vocational and educational development counseling, and referral services in any of the following modalities: