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SC Code § 44-29-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 29 - Contagious And Infectious Diseases|Section 44-29-210. Physicians, licensed nurses, and certain authorized public health employees participating in mass immunization projects exempt from liability; exceptions.

 (A) If the Board of the Department of Health and Environmental Control or the Director of the Department of Health and Environmental Control approves in writing a mass immunization project to be administered in any part of this State in cooperation with an official or volunteer medical or health agency, any authorized employee of the agency, any physician who does not receive compensation for his services in the project, and any licensed nurse who participates in the project, except as provided in subsection (B), is not liable to any person for illness, reaction, or adverse effect arising from or out of the use of any drug or vaccine administered in the project by the employee, physician, or nurse. Neither the board nor the director may approve the project unless either finds that the project conforms to good medical and public health practice.  For purposes of this section, a person is considered to be an authorized employee of an official or volunteer medical or health agency if he has received the necessary training for and approval of the department for participation in the project.  (B) Nothing in this section exempts any physician, licensed nurse, or authorized public health employee participating in any mass immunization project from liability for gross negligence, and the provisions of this section do not exempt any drug manufacturer from any liability for any drug or vaccine used in the project.  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 703, Sections 1, 2; 1988 Act No. 490, Section 14; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1099; 2010 Act No. 210, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on June 1, 2010).
SC Code § 44-29-240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 29 - Contagious And Infectious Diseases|Section 44-29-240. Protection of health care professionals rendering care; knowledge and disclosure of HIV or HBV status.

 A person, upon whom an invasive, exposure-prone procedure, as defined by the Department of Health and Environmental Control, is scheduled to be performed, is encouraged to know his HIV antibody, HBsAG, and HBeAg status and disclose the status to the health care professionals rendering care so that precautionary measures may be taken. A person, upon whom an invasive, exposure-prone procedure is scheduled to be performed, who does not know his status, is encouraged to have his blood tested for the presence of HIV or HBV so as to protect the health care professionals rendering care.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 321, Section 2.
SC Code § 44-29-250 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 29 - Contagious And Infectious Diseases|Section 44-29-250. Confidentiality of anonymous HIV test results; reporting requirements.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or a regulation promulgated under this chapter, a person who collects and anonymously submits a sample of the person's own body fluid or tissue for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection testing is not required to report a positive test result, and the test results are confidential. However, the person or laboratory performing the test on an anonymous sample shall report a positive HIV infection test result to the Department of Health and Environmental Control, as well as certification to the Department of Health and Environmental Control that counseling options, including community-based resources, and referrals to appropriate medical providers have been made or offered to the positive subject, but the report must not contain any information identifying the subject of the report or any information that may lead to the identification of the subject of the report.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 321, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-30-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 30 - Health Care Professional Compliance Act|Section 44-30-10. Short title.

 This article may be cited as the "South Carolina Health Care Professional Compliance Act".  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 403, Section 8; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1100.
SC Code § 44-30-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 30 - Health Care Professional Compliance Act|Section 44-30-20. Definitions.

 As used in this article:  (1) "CDC" means the Centers for Disease Control of the Public Health Service.  (2) "CDC recommendations" means the July 12, 1991, CDC document (MMWR, Volume 40, No. RR-8) entitled "Recommendations for Preventing Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis B Virus to Patients During Exposure-Prone Invasive Procedures" or equivalent guidelines developed by the department and approved by the CDC and any appropriate supplements or revisions thereto.  (3) "Department" means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.  (4) "Educational institutions" means the health professional schools of dentistry, medicine, and nursing and any other educational program or institution providing training for health care professionals.  (5) "Expert review panel" means a panel of experts in composition and function as defined in the CDC recommendations and appointed or approved by the department.  (6) "Health care professional" means a physician, physician's assistant, dentist, dental hygienist, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, or podiatrist practicing or licensed to practice in South Carolina.  (7) "Licensing board" means these health professional licensing boards which are state agencies and which license and regulate specific health care professions: the State Board of Medical Examiners, the State Board of Nursing for South Carolina, the South Carolina State Board of Dentistry, and the State Board of Podiatry Examiners.  (8) "Public law" means Public Law 102-141, Section 633, enacted October 28, 1991, applicable to health care professionals.  (9) "State public health official" means the director of the department or the director's designee.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 403, Section 8; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1100.
SC Code § 44-30-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 30 - Health Care Professional Compliance Act|Section 44-30-30. Department to oversee implementation of PL 102-141, Section 633, and CDC recommendations; assistance to licensing boards to ensure compliance; expert review panel.

 (A) The department is authorized to ensure and oversee the implementation of Public Law 102-141, Section 633, and applicable CDC recommendations and any appropriate supplements and revisions to the CDC recommendations which apply to health care professionals.  (B) The department shall provide consultation and assistance to licensing boards, as appropriate, to ensure compliance with CDC recommendations.  (C) The department shall appoint at least one or approve an existing expert review panel, consistent with the CDC recommendations in composition and function, whose recommendations must be considered requirements and must be binding upon the affected health care professionals.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 403, Section 8.
SC Code § 44-30-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 30 - Health Care Professional Compliance Act|Section 44-30-40. Adoption of CDC recommendations by licensing boards; notice to health care professionals; disciplinary action regarding violations by health care professionals.

 (A) By October 1, 1992, each licensing board shall adopt the CDC recommendations and shall communicate with its respective health care professionals by written notice of their adoption. This written notice must include information that noncompliance may subject the licensee to disciplinary proceedings before the licensing board. The notice must provide information regarding education and training in the areas of infection control, universal precautions, and disinfection and sterilization techniques.  (B) Each licensing board shall institute disciplinary or other action for violations by its respective health care professionals of the CDC recommendations and any other requirements adopted pursuant to this article.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 403, Section 8.
SC Code § 44-30-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 30 - Health Care Professional Compliance Act|Section 44-30-50. Immunity from liability for members of review panels and licensing boards and consultants and persons providing information.

 No member of an expert review panel or licensing board and no person or organization providing consultation to an expert review panel or licensing board may be subject to civil or criminal liability for actions or omissions made during investigations or hearings or made in rulings or decisions when acting within the scope of official duties and while carrying out the responsibilities of this article. No other person providing written or oral information to an expert review panel or a licensing board may be subject to civil or criminal liability for actions taken or statements made in good faith during an investigation or hearing.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 403, Section 8.
SC Code § 44-30-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 30 - Health Care Professional Compliance Act|Section 44-30-60. Confidentiality of expert review panel proceedings, records and information; notification of noncompliance; reports of accidents and incidents.

 (A) An expert review panel is considered a professional committee pursuant to Chapter 71, Title 40, "Liability of Members of Professional Committees". Proceedings, records, and information acquired or produced by the panel are confidential pursuant to Section 40-71-20, except that the expert review panel may notify a person or entity charged with supervision or monitoring of the requirements set forth in Section 44-30-30(3) and must notify the appropriate licensing board and the department of any occurrence of noncompliance by the health care professional with the requirements of the expert review panel.  (B) Nothing in this section affects the duty of a facility or activity licensed by the department to report accidents or incidents pursuant to the department's regulations. Provided, however, anything reported pursuant to the department's regulations shall not be considered to waive any privilege or confidentiality provided in subsection (A).  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 403, Section 8; 2006 Act No. 372, Section 2, eff June 9, 2006.
SC Code § 44-30-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 30 - Health Care Professional Compliance Act|Section 44-30-70. Disciplinary action for violation of expert review panel recommendations or related regulations.

 A health care professional who violates a recommendation of the expert review panel as set forth in Section 44-30-40 and related regulations is subject to disciplinary action by the appropriate licensing board. Nothing in this article prohibits the department from taking any action it considers necessary to protect the public health pursuant to Section 44-1-140.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 403, Section 8.
SC Code § 44-30-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 30 - Health Care Professional Compliance Act|Section 44-30-80. Educational institutions providing training in preparation for licensure to certify they provide appropriate curricula.

 An educational institution providing basic training programs for health care professionals in preparation for licensure in the State shall certify annually to the department that it provides curricula for infection control, universal precautions, and sterilization and disinfection techniques appropriate for health care professionals participating in its education programs.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 403, Section 8.
SC Code § 44-30-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 30 - Health Care Professional Compliance Act|Section 44-30-90. Regulations; order authentication and contents.

 The department and each licensing board shall promulgate regulations necessary to accomplish the purposes set forth in this article and to comply with public law no later than October 1, 1992. All orders for medication dispensed or treatment provided in a hospital shall be authenticated according to hospital policy. The orders shall be taken by personnel qualified by hospital medical staff rules and shall include the date, time, and name of persons who gave the order, and the signature of the person taking the order. The Department of Health and Environmental Control shall promulgate regulations consistent with this provision.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 403, Section 8; 1999 Act No. 85, Section 2.
SC Code § 44-30-310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 30 - Health Care Professional Compliance Act|Section 44-30-310. Free health care services; immunity from liability.

 If a health care provider, licensed pursuant to the laws of this State, informs his or her patient in writing, which may include use of an electronic medical record device, before treatment that the treatment to be rendered by the health care provider will be provided free of charge, the health care provider is not liable for any civil damages for any personal injury as a result of any act or omission by the health care provider rendering treatment free of charge or failure to act to provide or arrange for further treatment, except acts or omission amounting to gross negligence or wilful or wanton misconduct. For purposes of this section, a health care provider includes a dentist maintaining a restricted volunteer license pursuant to Section 40-15-177, a practitioner maintaining a special volunteer license pursuant to Section 40-47-34, and a chiropractor maintaining a special volunteer license pursuant to Section 40-9-85.  HISTORY: 2016 Act No. 189 (H.4999), Section 1, eff May 25, 2016.
SC Code § 44-31-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 31 - Tuberculosis|Section 44-31-10. Reports of physicians and administrative officers of hospitals and similar institutions.

 Every attending physician and chief administrative officer having charge of any hospital, clinic, dispensary or other similar private or public institution in the State shall make a report in writing, on a form to be furnished by the Department of Health and Environmental Control, on every person known by the physician to have tuberculosis or on every patient in the care of such administrator. Such report shall be filed within twenty-four hours after the patient is known by the physician to have tuberculosis or after such patient comes into the care of the administrator.  The report shall contain the name, age, sex, race, occupation, place where last employed if known, and the address or previous address in the case of a patient reported on, and the reporting physician or officer shall also give evidence upon which the diagnosis of tuberculosis has been made, the part of the body affected, and the stage of the disease. All cases in which sputum, urine, feces, pus, or any other bodily discharge, secretion, or excretion contains the tubercle bacillus, shall be regarded as active infectious cases of tuberculosis.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-640; 1970 (56) 2044.
SC Code § 44-31-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 31 - Tuberculosis|Section 44-31-20. Reports of bacteriological and pathological laboratories.

 (1) All bacteriological and pathological laboratories rendering diagnostic service shall report to the Department of Health and Environmental Control, within twenty-four hours after diagnosis, the full name and other available data relating to the person whose sputa, gastric contents, or other specimens submitted for examination reveal the presence of tubercle bacilli. Such report shall include the name and address of the physician or of any other person or agency referring such positive specimen for clinical diagnosis.  (2) All reports and records of clinical or laboratory examination, for the presence of tuberculosis, shall be confidential and recorded in a register maintained by the Department of Health and Environmental Control.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-641; 1970 (56) 2044.
SC Code § 44-31-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 31 - Tuberculosis|Section 44-31-30. Personnel of Department of Health and Environmental Control are authorized to inspect records and provide consultation services.

 Authorized personnel of the Department of Health and Environmental Control may inspect all medical records of all public and private institutions and clinics where tuberculosis patients are treated, and shall provide consultation services to officers of State educational, correctional, and medical institutions regarding the control of tuberculosis and the care of patients or inmates having tuberculosis.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-642; 1970 (56) 2044.
SC Code § 44-31-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 31 - Tuberculosis|Section 44-31-100. Legislative findings; purpose of article.

 (A) The General Assembly finds that:  (1) Pulmonary tuberculosis is a life-threatening airborne disease. Tuberculosis has reemerged as an epidemic disease nationally. The number and types of cases in South Carolina each year, including drug-resistant tuberculosis, demonstrate that timely, effective public health intervention is necessary to prevent an epidemic and to protect the residents of this State.  (2) In order to limit the spread of tuberculosis, it is essential that persons with the disease are diagnosed and treated before they infect others. Diagnosis requires a variety of methodologies, including skin tests, x-rays, blood tests, and laboratory analysis of sputum samples.  (3) A person with tuberculosis who does not voluntarily submit to appropriate testing, treatment, or infection control methods poses an unreasonable risk of spreading the disease to those who come into contact with the person.  (4) Although the recommended course of treatment for tuberculosis varies somewhat from one individual to another, at a minimum, effective treatment requires a long-term regimen of multiple drug therapy. The development of the appropriate course of treatment for any one individual may require trying different combinations of drugs and repeated drug susceptibility testing. The course of treatment may require as long as several years to complete.  (5) A noninfectious person who begins a course of treatment for tuberculosis and fails to follow the recommended course through to completion is highly likely to become infectious. The person can infect others and possibly develop drug-resistant tuberculosis, which is more difficult to treat, and more likely to result in death. A person who is infectious with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis poses a significant risk of transmitting drug-resistant tuberculosis to other persons, unless appropriate treatment and infection control methods are followed. It is therefore critical that individuals with tuberculosis, whether infectious or not, complete a course of treatment to avoid relapse, infectiousness, and drug resistance.  (B) The purposes of this article are to:  (1) assure the timely diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis;  (2) provide appropriate individualized preventive and curative treatment to the people of South Carolina in the least restrictive setting; and  (3) protect the public from the spread of infectious tuberculosis.  HISTORY: 2011 Act No. 53, Section 1, eff June 14, 2011.
SC Code § 44-31-105 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 31 - Tuberculosis|Section 44-31-105. Emergency order; contents; enforcement; hearings on release.

 (A) If the Department of Health and Environmental Control determines that the public health or the health of any individual is endangered by a case of tuberculosis, or a suspected case of tuberculosis, the commissioner, or his or her designee, may issue an emergency order he or she considers necessary to protect the public health or the health of any person, and law enforcement shall aid and assist the department in accordance with Section 44-1-100.  (B) An emergency order issued pursuant to this section may include, but is not limited to:  (1) authorizing the emergency removal to and detention in a hospital or other treatment facility for examination of a person who is unable or unwilling to voluntarily submit to an examination by a physician or by the department for the purpose of determining whether the person is infected with active tuberculosis and presents a danger to himself or others;  (2) requiring compliance with an appropriate, prescribed course of medication for tuberculosis and contagion precautions;  (3) requiring compliance with a course of directly observed therapy in which the prescribed antituberculosis medication is administered under direct observation as specified by the department;  (4) authorizing the emergency removal to and isolation in a hospital or other treatment facility of a person who fails to comply with an emergency order issued by the department, fails to comply with a medically ordered treatment regimen, and presents a substantial risk and likelihood of exposure of active tuberculosis to other persons;  (5) requiring the emergency detention and isolation by a hospital of a hospital patient with active tuberculosis disease who is threatening or attempting to leave the hospital against medical advice.  (C) An emergency order issued pursuant to this section must include:  (1) an individualized assessment of the person's circumstances or behavior, or both, constituting the basis for the issuance of the order;  (2) the purposes of the isolation or detention;  (3) notice that the respondent has the right to request release from isolation and detention by contacting a person designated in the order; and  (4) in the absence of a court order, that the detention must not continue for more than thirty days.  (D) The probate court shall enforce the provisions of an emergency order issued pursuant to this section. If a person being isolated or detained pursuant to an emergency order requests release from isolation or detention, the department, within three working days of the request for release, shall file a petition in the probate court of the county in which the person is being held seeking continued isolation or detention. The probate court must schedule a hearing to review the request for continued isolation or detention within ten days of the filing of the petition.  HISTORY: 2011 Act No. 53, Section 1, eff June 14, 2011.
SC Code § 44-31-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 31 - Tuberculosis|Section 44-31-110. Emergency order for commitment of person with active tuberculosis; petition; waiver of notice.

 (A) When it is brought to the attention of a Department of Health and Environmental Control health officer that a person with active tuberculosis is unable or unwilling to conduct himself so as not to expose others to danger, the department shall issue an emergency order pursuant to Section 44-31-105 or file a petition in the probate court of the county in which the person resides or is situated seeking commitment of the person to a facility for isolation and treatment. In case of the absence of the health officer or the department's failure to act, any other interested person may petition the probate court for commitment of the person for isolation and treatment. A petition seeking commitment must be based on proper records and affidavits.  (B) The probate court may waive the requirement of notice to the person who is the subject of the emergency order or petition seeking commitment if the health officer demonstrates that the person is:  (1) hiding from the health department staff;  (2) evading attempts by health department staff or law enforcement to serve notice of the proceedings; or  (3) refusing to accept service of pleadings or motions.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-631; 1952 Code Section 32-631; 1948 (45) 1934; 2011 Act No. 53, Section 1, eff June 14, 2011.