Title 44, Health

The board of trustees may also employ an architect to execute necessary plans for a hospital building or buildings and to supervise the construction thereof, if deemed necessary, and may contract for the construction of such building or buildings after receiving bids therefor acc…

The board of trustees of any such hospital may also purchase furnishings, equipment and supplies and may replace the same from time to time, and they shall be responsible for the maintenance, repairs and upkeep of the buildings and property.

Should any municipal hospital authorized under the provisions of this article be built outside the corporate limits of the city or town, the jurisdiction of the municipal corporation shall extend over all land and property used for the hospital, and all ordinances of such city or…

The board of trustees shall adopt and promulgate such rules, regulations and bylaws for the operation and government of the hospital as may be deemed expedient and necessary for the economic and equitable conduct thereof and establish thereby procedure for receiving and dischargi…

Any hospital established under the provisions of this article shall be primarily for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the municipality owning and operating it, but in no event shall this article be construed as compelling such hospital to admit charity patients, it being…

The board of trustees of any municipal hospital established under the provisions of this article may enter into agreement with the residents of any adjoining or nearby school district, including any portion of a school district outside the limits in which such city or town is loc…

If the residents of any such school district, or portion thereof outside the city limits, desire to enter into such an agreement with the trustees of the hospital, they may petition the county legislative delegation of the county in which the district is located, setting forth th…

This article may be cited as the "State Health Facility Licensure Act".

Upon presentation of such petition, the county legislative delegation of the county in which the district is located may, by resolution, direct the auditor of the county to levy annually the additional millage upon all the taxable property in the district for the benefit of the h…

If at any time any such contributing agreement should become unsatisfactory, the hospital board of trustees may discontinue it at the end of any calendar year by giving prior notice to the county legislative delegation and the auditor of the county in which the school district is…

The city or town council of any such municipality shall have an annual audit made of the records of the hospital, the moneys received and the expenditure thereof, such audit to be filed in the clerk's office and to become a part of the permanent records of such city or town.

The council of any municipality building and operating a hospital under the terms of this article may levy annually upon all of the taxable property within the limits thereof a sufficient tax to supplement the costs of operation and maintenance of the hospital, should the hospita…

The powers conferred in this article are cumulative and in addition to all existing laws authorizing the building, operation and maintenance of hospitals, and none of them are hereby amended or repealed, it being the intent hereof to provide additional authority and powers and al…

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.

As used in this article: (1) "Affected person" means the applicant, a person residing within the geographic area served or to be served by the applicant, persons located in the health service area in which the project is to be located and who provide similar services to the propo…

The city council of any municipal corporation in the State containing more than five thousand inhabitants and less than ten thousand inhabitants, which has acquired, constructed or caused to be constructed a hospital, may establish a city hospital commission to operate and manage…

Any such commission shall select its chairman and secretary. Minutes of all its meetings shall be kept and be subject to the inspection of the city council or its representatives, and it shall submit reports to the city council annually or oftener if desired.

Any such city hospital commission shall have the control and management of the hospital and may select the employees and officers of the hospital, including its medical and surgical staff, and may fix the charges and fees to be paid for the services of the hospital and adopt such…

Any such commission may provide for such compensation as may be necessary or advisable for the payment of any of its employees and officers in the conduct and management of the hospital, together with the expenses of the hospital, with authority to make such repairs or alteration…

The department is designated the sole state agency for control and administration of the granting of Certificates of Need and licensure of health facilities and other activities necessary to be carried out under this article.

This article may be referred to and cited as the "Hospital Revenue Bond Act."

It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of South Carolina to promote the public health and welfare by providing means for the financing, refinancing, acquiring, enlarging, improving, constructing, equipping, and providing of hospital facilities to serve the people of …

In this article, the following terms have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Authorizing issuer" means the county issuing bonds pursuant to Section 44-7-1640. (b) "Bonds" or "revenue bonds" include notes, bonds, refunding bonds, and other obligati…

Subject to obtaining approvals from the Authority required by Section 44-7-1590 and from the Department of Health and Environmental Control, required by Section 44-7-1490, the several counties of the State functioning through their respective county boards shall be empowered: (1)…

All bonds issued by a county board under authority of this article shall be limited obligations of its county, the principal, interest and redemption premiums, if any, on which shall be payable solely out of the moneys to be derived by such county pursuant to the loan agreement r…

The principal, interest and premium, if any, on any bonds shall be secured by a pledge of the revenues payable to the county pursuant to the loan agreement relating to the hospital facilities financed out of the bond proceeds and any bonds may be issued pursuant to a trust indent…

Contracts for the construction of any hospital facilities may be let on such terms and under such conditions as the county board and the hospital agency or public agency may agree upon and may be let with or without advertisement or call for bids.

In undertaking any hospital facilities pursuant to this article, the county board shall be guided by and shall observe the following criteria and requirements; provided, that the determination of the county board as to its compliance with such criteria and requirements shall be f…

The county board shall not undertake the acquisition, construction, expansion, equipping or financing of any hospital facilities unless and until such approval of the Department of Health and Environmental Control for such undertaking as may be required under Article 3, Chapter 7…

(A) In carrying out the purposes of this article, the department shall: (1) require reports and make inspections and investigations as considered necessary; (2) to the extent that is necessary to effectuate the purposes of this article, enter into agreements with other department…

For the purposes of this article, public agencies are authorized and empowered to enter into loan agreements (including agreements of lease) with any county board to facilitate the financing, acquiring, constructing, improving, enlarging, expanding, equipping, providing, operatin…

The county board is authorized to make or cause to be made such investigations, surveys, studies, reports and reviews as in its judgment are necessary and desirable to determine the feasibility and desirability of the hospital facilities, the extent to which the hospital faciliti…

Every loan agreement shall contain a covenant obligating the hospital agency or public agency to effect the completion of the hospital facilities if the proceeds of the bonds prove insufficient, and each such loan agreement shall obligate the hospital agency or public agency to m…

Every loan agreement made with a hospital agency which shall be a corporation created for profit, pursuant to which a public agency shall have acquired title to any hospital facilities, shall contain a provision requiring such hospital agency to make payments to the county or cou…

Any loan agreement may provide that the hospital facilities will be owned by the county and leased to the hospital agency or public agency, may provide the hospital agency or public agency with an option to purchase the hospital facility upon such terms and conditions as the coun…

The proceeds from the sale of any bonds issued under authority of this article shall be applied only for the purpose for which the bonds were issued; provided, however, that any premium and accrued interest received in any such sale shall be applied to the payment of the principa…

(1) Any bonds issued hereunder and at any time outstanding may at any time and from time to time be refunded by the county, but only with the approval of the Authority being first obtained, by the issuance of its refunding bonds in such amounts as the county board may deem necess…

It shall be lawful for all executors, administrators, guardians, committees and other fiduciaries to invest any moneys in their hands in bonds issued under the provisions of this article.

The bonds authorized by this article and the income therefrom, all trust indentures and mortgages executed as security therefor, all loan agreements (including agreements of lease) made pursuant to the provisions hereof, and the revenues derived from any loan agreement thereof sh…

(A) No bonds may be issued pursuant to the provisions of this article until the proposal of the county board to issue the bonds receives the approval of the authority. Whenever a county board proposes to issue bonds pursuant to the provisions of this article, it shall file its pe…

(A) A person or nursing home as defined in this article is required to obtain a Certificate of Need from the department before undertaking any of the following: (1) the construction or other establishment of a new nursing home; (2) a change in the existing bed complement of a nur…

Any resolution authorizing or trust indenture providing for any bonds or any issue of bonds and any loan agreement may contain provisions, which shall be part of the contract with the holders of the bonds to be authorized, as to: (1) Pledging all or any part of the revenues of an…

(A) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary and prior to obtaining a Certificate of Need or licensure pursuant to this article for acquiring a hospital facility, the Medical University of South Carolina shall: (1) submit details of the proposed acquisition for review…

All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this article, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues, shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in this article and in any resolution or trust indenture pursuant hereto. Any offi…

Any holder of revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this article or any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust indenture, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by any resolution authorizing the issuance of, or any such…

Any loan agreement may contain a provision whereby the hospital agency or public agency agrees to impose a daily charge upon persons using the hospital facilities financed out of the bond proceeds (or any other hospital facilities owned or operated by the hospital agency or publi…