The purpose of this article is to ensure that high quality services are provided in health facilities in this State. To achieve these purposes, this article requires the licensure of facilities rendering medical, nursing, and other health care.
S.C. Code Ann. § 44-7-120
Purpose
Known as the State Health Facility Licensure Act
The act spans §§ 44–44 (47 sections).
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Inmed Diagnostic v. Medquest Assoc. (2004)
Most recently applied in Amisub of S.C., Inc. v. S.C. Dep't of Health & Envtl. Control (June 2018)
1962 Code SECTION 32-763; 1952 Code SECTION 32-763; 1947 (45) 510; 1971 (57) 376; 1979 Act No. 51 SECTION 1; 1981 Act No. 16, SECTION 1; 1988 Act No. 670, SECTION 1; 1992 Act No…
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.