DPH's Bureau of Healthcare Quality is responsible for licensing various healthcare facilities, activities, and professionals in South Carolina and for enforcing compliance with the applicable state regulations and statutes relating to these health care facilities, activities, and professionals to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the people of South Carolina. In addition, we investigate complaints and serious incidents.

Licensing Inspections

Here are key facts about DPH's Healthcare Quality inspections:

Healthcare-Associated Infections in South Carolina Healthcare Facilities

This report contains data from January 2016 through December 2016

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DHEC established the Hospital Infections Disclosure Act (HIDA) Advisory Committee as required by the HIDA legislation. The Committee is a multi-disciplinary group with set voting member organizations, and representatives of consumers and the general public are also key participants. The member organizations nominate a representative and set their own guidelines for representative rotation schedules. After nomination from their organization, these voting representatives are approved by the DHEC board.

These antibiograms were created to monitor resistance across the State of South Carolina. We hope that individual institutions that may not have access to facility-level antibiograms may utilize these to improve empiric antimicrobial prescribing across the state.

This is an ongoing project; ASC-SC will continue to collect antibiograms each year to create a yearly statewide antibiogram.

2021 Antibiograms

ASC-SC Statewide Antibiogram - 2021

Publications

• CDC's HAI Progress Report
• HIDA Public Reports

For more information about HIDA, please visit the HIDA Requirements webpage.

South Carolina Hospitals Mandated to Report Healthcare-associated Infections

In 2006, state lawmakers passed the Hospital Infections Disclosure Act (HIDA). This law requires hospitals licensed by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) to report certain healthcare-associated infection (HAI) events to DHEC and the public. 

Hospitals are required to report certain types of infections that patients developed while being treated in the hospital.

• Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI)

  Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI ) Resources

  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals

  APIC: Guide to Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections

National Action Plan to Prevent Health Care-Associated Infections: Road Map to Elimination

HAIs that must be reported to the state through the state surveillance system:

South Carolina List of Reportable Conditions