South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control

We promote and protect the health of the public and the environment.

• CON Application (doc)
• CON Application Procedures (pdf)
• State Health Plan
• Regulation 61-15, Certification of Need for Health Facilities and Services (pdf)
• Regulation 61-31, Health Care Cooperative Agreements (pdf)
• SC Administrative Law Judge Certificate of Need Decisions
• Sanctions
• Our Offices - Location Map

The South Carolina Health Plan

The South Carolina Health Plan outlines the need for medical facilities and services in the state. It is used as one of the criteria for reviewing projects under the Certificate of Need program.

The South Carolina Health Plan contains an inventory of facilities and services and utilization data for health care facilities.  It also projects the need for acute care hospitals, psychiatric beds, alcohol and drug abuse treatment facilities, residential care facilities for treatment of children and adolescents, nursing homes, home health agencies, Positron Emission Tomography (PET), rehabilitation beds, cardiac catheterization programs, open heart surgery services and radiation therapy equipment. 

Note: This link contains the 2008-2009 South Carolina Health Plan approved by the DHEC Board effective September 12, 2008.

2008-2009 South Carolina Health Plan (pdf)

Copies of the Plan are also available via the mail at the cost of $25.00. To receive a copy of the Plan, please send a request in writing to:

Les Shelton, Senior Planner
Bureau of Health Facilities and Service Development
SC DHEC
2600 Bull St
Columbia, S.C. 29201
FAX (803) 545-4579