Lowcountry senior care directory

What does the Lowcountry senior care directory include?

Every active license DPH shows for community residential care facilities, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospices, in-home care providers and adult day care in Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties, 251 in all, plus CMS Care Compare ratings for the 18 certified nursing homes.

Which sources feed the Lowcountry directory?

Three public datasets and nothing else: the license records behind DPH's Find a Facility map (pulled November 6, 2026), the administrative and consent orders DPH lists each month in its Healthcare Quality enforcement reports, and CMS's nursing home Provider Information file for star ratings, inspections, staffing and fines.

We do not copy anything from operators' websites, review sites or lead-generation listings, and no building can pay to appear or to rank higher. Each assisted living facility that serves older adults and each CMS-certified nursing home gets its own page; agencies, day centers and the county disabilities board residences are shown as rows in the rosters.

How do I narrow the rosters to my part of the Lowcountry?

Type a name or street into the search box, pick a county or city from the filters, and click any column heading to sort; for example, show only Summerville assisted living sorted by bed count, or only nursing homes with four or five CMS stars.

• Assisted living (CRCFs)
• Memory care (Alzheimer's units)
• Nursing homes
• Home health & hospice
• In-home care providers
• Adult day care

Why does an assisted living row have no inspection date?

South Carolina does not release CRCF inspection results as a dataset; reports exist and are public under Regulation 60-84, Section 202.E, but only on written request to DPH, so assisted living rows show the license, the Alzheimer's flag and any enforcement order instead.

Nursing homes are different because CMS publishes their federal survey results, so every nursing home row carries its latest standard inspection date and deficiency count. For a CRCF you are considering, ask the administrator for the newest DPH report and the signed plan of correction during your visit.

What does the directory say about hurricane readiness?

Nothing from a dataset, because DPH does not publish evacuation plans; instead every assisted living page lists the questions to ask about the written plan Regulation 60-84, Section 1401 requires, and notes whether the building's county triggers the inland sheltering rule.

Charleston County buildings must name a shelter site outside the six coastal counties; Berkeley and Dorchester buildings need a plan and sheltering agreement but not that inland site. Ask to read the plan on every tour.