CON Applications Accepted for Filing and Public Notification
April 26, 2013
In accordance with Section 44-7-200(D), Code of Laws of South Carolina, the public is hereby notified that a Certificate of Need application has been accepted for filing and publication April 26, 2013, for the following project(s). After the application is deemed complete, affected persons will be notified that the review cycle has begun. For further information, please contact
Mrs. Paula J. Bracey
Division of Planning and Certification of Need
2600 Bull St., Columbia, SC 29201
Phone: (803) 545-4200.
Affecting Aiken County
Construction for the establishment of a freestanding endoscopy only ambulatory surgical facility (ASF) with one (1) endoscopy room
Center for Colon and Digestive Diseases, LLC
Aiken, South Carolina
Project Cost: $1,455,173
Affecting Charleston County
Construction for the addition of two (2) operating rooms (ORs)
Bon Secours St. Francis Xavier Hospital
Charleston, South Carolina
Project Cost: $5,540,417
Addition of two (2) psychiatric beds and two (2) inpatient treatment beds
Palmetto Lowcountry Behavioral Health, LLC
Charleston, South Carolina
Project Cost: $20,603
Addition of fourteen (14) inpatient rehabilitation beds on the 4th floor at Trident Medical Center
Trident Medical Center
Charleston, South Carolina
Project Cost: $2,873,235
Affecting Greenville County
Purchase and installation of the da Vinci Si HD Surgical System (da Vinci System)
Bon Secours St. Francis- Eastside
Greenville, South Carolina
Project Cost: $2,642,699
Addition of five (5) psychiatric beds for a total of one hundred nine (109) psychiatric beds
The Carolina Center for Behavioral Health
Greer, South Carolina
Project Cost: $21,733.13
In accordance with Section 44-7-210(A), Code of Laws of South Carolina, and S.C. DHEC Regulation 61-15, the public and affected persons are hereby notified that for the following projects, applications have been deemed complete, and the review cycle has begun. A proposed decision will be made as early as 30 days, but no later than 120 days, from April 26, 2013. "Affected persons" have 30 days from the above date to submit comments or requests for a public hearing to Mr. Les W. Shelton, Division of Planning and Certification of Need, 2600 Bull Street, Columbia, S.C. 29201. If a public hearing is timely requested, the Department’s decision will be made after the public hearing, but no later than 150 days from the above date. For further information call (803) 545-4200.
Affecting Dorchester County
Transfer of six (6) Residential Treatment Facility (RTF) Beds from Palmetto Lowcountry Behavioral Health, located at 2777 Speissegger Drive, Charleston, SC, to Palmetto Pines Behavioral Health located at 225 Midland Parkway, Summerville, SC for a total of sixty-six (66) licensed RTF beds
Palmetto Pines Behavioral Health
Summerville, South Carolina
Project Cost: $39,008
Affecting Georgetown County
Renovation to add seventeen (17) rehabilitation beds through a reduction of fifteen (15) general acute care beds, for a total of one hundred nine (109) general acute beds and sixty (60) rehabilitation beds
Waccamaw Community Hospital
Georgetown, South Carolina
Project Cost: $549,094
Affecting Greenville County
Addition of a Cyberknife Stereotactic Radiosurgery System and construction of a vault to house the system
Spartanburg Regional Health Services District, Inc., d/b/a Spartanburg Regional Medical Center d/b/a Gibbs Regional Cancer Center at Pelham
Greer, South Carolina
Project Cost: 8,346,395
Construction for the establishment of an outpatient oncology center , which will be located within the St. Francis Millennium Cancer Center
St. Francis Millennium Cancer Center
Greenville, South Carolina
Project Cost: $9,037,400
Affecting Lancaster County
Renovation for the addition of six (6) psychiatric beds for a total of twenty-four (24) psychiatric beds
Rebound Behavioral Health
Lancaster, South Carolina
Project Cost: $249,620
Affecting Richland County
Renovation of existing space for the purchase and installation of a Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPEC/CT) scanner that will replace a sixty-four (64) slice Computed Tomography (CT) scanner; Renovation of existing space for the purchase and installation of a two hundred and fifty-six (256) slice Computed Tomography (CT) scanner, which will be located in the Emergency Department (ED)
Palmetto Health Baptist
Columbia, South Carolina
Project Cost: $3,503,151
Renovation for the addition of a 1.5T Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) unit to be located in the MRI Suite at the new Palmetto Health Parkridge Hospital
Palmetto Health Parkridge Hospital
Columbia, South Carolina
Project Cost: $2,609,136
Renovation of existing space at 5 Medical Park to convert OR#27 and an adjacent storage area into one large hybrid OR, and the purchase of angiography imaging equipment
Palmetto Health Richland
Columbia, South Carolina
Project Cost: $4,607,784
For questions regarding the Certificate of Need process and program, please contact us at (803) 545-4200.