Charleston Senior AdvisorHow does Charleston Senior Advisor source its facts?
Regulatory statements cite Regulation 60-84 or the statute or agency page behind them; costs come from CareScout's 2025 South Carolina release, OSS figures from SCDHHS's January 2026 bulletin, waiver figures from SCDHHS's July 2026 chart, population from Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimates and VA figures from VA rate tables.
- S.C. Code Regs. 60-84, Standards for Community Residential Care Facilities (DPH, May 2025)
- DPH Community Residential Care program page
- DPH Find a Facility (licensed facility map and data)
- DPH Healthcare Quality Enforcement Actions
- SCDHHS Medicaid Bulletin MB# 26-001: 2026 OSS rates and personal needs allowance
- SCDHHS HCBS Waiver Summary Chart, July 2026
- SCDHHS Residential Personal Care scope of services (July 1, 2025)
- SCDHHS PACE enrollment snapshot and county coverage
- S.C. DSS Adult Protective Services reporting
- Trident Area Agency on Aging (Region 9: Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester)
- CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey, South Carolina
- VA Veterans Pension rates
- CMS Care Compare Provider Information
- U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 county estimates by age, South Carolina
- SCDVA State Veterans Nursing Homes
- BoldAge PACE North Charleston opening (October 2024)
- U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 city and town estimates, South Carolina
What will Charleston Senior Advisor not publish?
Figures we cannot trace to a primary source, facility details that are not in state or CMS data, reviews, testimonials, or ratings of our own.
- A Charleston or Lowcountry price median: the 2025 CareScout release for South Carolina is statewide.
- Any memory care price median, because none is surveyed.
- A score or rank for any assisted living facility; DPH does not rate them and CMS does not cover them.
- Amenities, prices or claims copied from operators' websites or brochures.
How often is the directory refreshed?
Whenever the fetch script is rerun against DPH's Find a Facility data (currently as of November 6, 2026), DPH's monthly enforcement reports (through September 2026) and CMS's Provider Information dataset (as of October 1, 2026).
Each listing page shows its source and data date. Sitemap dates change only when a page's content changes.
How are CMS star ratings and state enforcement records handled?
CMS ratings appear exactly as CMS publishes them, labeled as CMS ratings with the data date and only for nursing homes CMS certifies; DPH administrative and consent orders are summarized as the monthly reports state them, with the report month and penalty.
Comparisons on facility pages, such as staffing hours against the tri-county middle value or a CRCF's bed count against the local median, are plain arithmetic on published figures, and each says what it is compared with.
How do I ask for a correction?
Email advisors@charlestonsenioradvisor.com with the page and the correction; operators may ask us to fix how their license data is displayed, but changes to the underlying data must be made with DPH or CMS.
If a reader points to a changed OSS figure or a revised section of Regulation 60-84, we confirm it against the agency's own document, update the reference page, and then every guide that relies on it.
