State Request Approved by Federal Partners will Allow Additional Nursing Home Visitation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
March 10, 2021
COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina has received federal approval to update visitation guidelines for nursing homes and community residential care facilities, announced the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and Governor Henry McMaster.
These updated guidelines require facilities to use DHEC’s percent positive by county data to help determine their visitation status. This update will result in more facilities who were previously restricting visitation based solely on a county’s percent positive rate greater than 10 percent allowing in-person, indoor visitation.