Why are Community Residential Care Facilities inspected?
Regulation 61-84, Standards For Licensing Community Residential Care Facilities, is part of the South Carolina Code of Law, therefore, every licensed Community Residential Care Facility must meet these minimum requirements. The inspections are to verify that a Community Residential Care Facility has substantially met licensing requirements, and therefore can continue to do business in South Carolina. • The Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), in its role of monitoring public health in South Carolina, is responsible for ensuring Community Residential Care Facilities comply with the regulation through inspections by the Division of Health Licensing. • A Community Residential Care Facility may be inspected because it is new, having applied for a Community Residential Care Facility license, and so it is being inspected for compliance the first time. • A Community Residential Care Facility may be inspected because it must be inspected at least every two years (food service
