Assisted Living, Senior Care & Aging Parents in South Carolina

At under $200 a day, South Carolina’s nursing home prices fall below the estimated national average (over $225 for a private room). But that doesn’t mean quality necessarily suffers. Medicare gives 20 percent of South Carolina’s nursing homes five stars overall, as of this writing. That’s the second highest percentage in the Southeast. (Alabama ranks first.)

 

Approximate number of facilities:

• Nursing homes:  188
• Assisted living residences: 480*

 

Types of care available:

• Adult day care
• Home care
• Home health-care
• Continuing-care retirement communities
• Assisted living facilities (community residential care facilities)
• Nursing homes

 

Estimated average prices:**

• Adult day care: $48 per day
• Home care: $17 per hour
• Home health-care: $18 per hour
• Assisted living: $ 3,038 per month
• Nursing home, semi-private room: $176 per day
• Nursing home, private room: $191 per day

 

State websites for seniors:

• Lieutenant Governor’s Office on Aging: “Seniors”
• Department of Health and Environmental Control: ”Health Licensing”
• Standards for Licensing Community Residential Care Facilities(PDF download)

 

Where to report elder abuse:

• In domestic/community care: 803-898-7318
• In nursing homes: 803-898-2850

 

Financial assistance (partial list):

• Medicaid
• State Health Insurance Program

 

Top-10 largest cities:

• Columbia
• Charleston
• North Charleston
• Greenville
• Rock Hill
• Mount Pleasant
• Spartanburg
• Sumter
• Hilton Head Island
• Florence

 

Top nursing homes, based on Medicare ratings:***

 

Abbeville
Abbeville Nursing Home

 

Aiken
Faith Health & Rehab of Aiken

 

Anderson
NHC Healthcare – Anderson

 

Bluffton
NHC Healthcare – Bluffton

 

Cheraw
Cheraw Healthcare

 

Clinton
Laurens County Hospital Skilled Nursing Facility

 

Columbia
BMC Subacute Rehab Center
NHC Healthcare – Parklane
White Oak Manor – Columbia

 

Conway
Agape Rehabilitation of Conway

 

Darlington
Medford Nursing Center
Oakhaven Nursing Center

 

Easley
Capstone Health & Rehab of Easley

 

Florence
Carolinas Hospital System Transitional Care

 

Garden City
NHC Healthcare – Garden City

 

Greenville
Greenville Memorial Medical Center Subacute
Omega Health & Rehab of Greenville
Rolling Green Village

 

Greenwood
Greenwood Transitional Rehabilitation Unit
NHC Healthcare – Greenwood

 

Greer
NHC Healthcare – Greenville

 

Hartsville
Morrell Nursing Center

 

Marietta
Hope Health & Rehab of Marietta

 

Marion
Marion Nursing Center

 

McCormick
Petra Health & Rehab of Mccormick

 

Mount Pleasant
Franke Health Care Center
Sandpiper Rehab & Nursing

 

Mullins
Mullins Nursing Center

 

Myrtle Beach
Grand Strand Healthcare

 

Newberry
Newberry County Memorial Hospital Transitional Care Unit

 

Pickens
Redeemer Health & Rehab of Pickens

 

Piedmont
Hosanna Health and Rehab of Piedmont

 

Saint Stephen
Lake Moultrie Nursing Home

 

Saluda
Saluda Nursing Center

 

Spartanburg
Spartanburg Hospital for Restorative Care Skilled Nursing Facility

 

Sumter
NHC Healthcare – Sumter

 

Walterboro
Heritage Healthcare of Walterboro

 

West Columbia
NHC Healthcare – Lexington

 

*Assisted-living residence numbers are from the Department of Health and Human Services’ 2007 Residential Care and Assisted Living Compendium. According to the National Center for Assisted Living, this is the industry’s only resource for such data. Depending on the state, the number may or may not include small residential-care homes, such as adult foster care.

**Senior-care price estimates are based on the 2011 MetLife Market Survey of Long-Term Care Costs, which reports average rates,and the Genworth 2011 Cost of Care Survey, which reports median rates.

***Medicare rates nursing homes in four categories using a five-star system. These are the nursing homes with five stars in the “Overall” category. The ratings were accessed on Medicare’s Nursing Home Compare site in November or December 2011 and are subject to change. The Medicare ratings system isn’t perfect, so use additional criteria to evaluate nursing homes as well.