Assisted living in Clinton, SC
4 licensed communities, listed alphabetically — South Carolina publishes no bulk inspection record, so nothing here is ranked by one.
We don’t publish this state’s inspection record yet — so nothing below is ranked by it.
Assisted living is licensed by the state, not Medicare, and South Carolina Dept. of Public Health doesn’t release its inspection and complaint records as a bulk file we can ingest. Several states in this position still let you look up one community at a time on their own site — so the record may well exist; we just don’t have it. We will not invent one: no community below is marked clean, because we have nothing to clear it with. To check a specific community, ask SC DPH ↗ for its inspection and complaint history, or call your Long-Term Care Ombudsman ↗ — a free, independent advocate.
Memory care isn’t marked here — because the state doesn’t publish it.
South Carolina Dept. of Public Health’s licensing file carries no memory-care or dementia-unit designation, so we cannot tell you which of these communities has one. There certainly are memory-care communities in this state — we just have no authoritative list of them, and we won’t guess from a community’s name. Ask any community directly whether it runs a secured dementia unit, and ask your Long-Term Care Ombudsman ↗ which local communities take dementia residents.
What’s actually in Clinton
All 4 hold the same licence: CRCF.
They range from 8 to 81 licensed beds (median 81).
2 of the 4 have no bed count in the state’s file, so they are not in that range.
What it costs around here
Median private-pay cost, CareScout (Genworth) 2025 Cost of Care Survey — a regional midpoint, not any single community’s rate. Private rooms and higher care levels cost more; ask for a current quote. Project your own in the cost-of-care planner.
† Memory care is our estimate, not survey data: CareScout does not survey memory care, so we take the assisted-living median for the state and add $1,200/month — the typical secured-dementia-unit premium. It is a planning figure with no state-level detail behind it, and real memory-care pricing varies far more than that. Treat it as a starting point and ask the community for its own memory-care rate.
Estimated cost range · regional
In South Carolina, assisted living typically runs about $4,300–$6,400/month.
This is a regional estimate modeled from published survey data (the CareScout/Genworth state median, ±20%) — not this community’s actual price, which it sets privately. Ask the community for its current all-in monthly rate and what each care level adds.
Paying with Medicaid
South Carolina Medicaid helps pay for assisted living only in limited circumstances — through a waiver, and not everywhere in the state or for everyone who qualifies.
The South Carolina waivers that can pay for it:
- Community Choices Waiver — covers in-home personal care / adult day health care / home modifications / community residential care (assisted living)
- PACE — covers all-inclusive care including assisted living
In South Carolina: apply or check eligibility ↗ or call 888-549-0820.
A waiver pays for care, not for rent. Even where the state covers assisted-living services, room and board is still the resident’s to pay. Full eligibility limits — income, assets, the look-back — are on our South Carolina Medicaid page.
Nearby towns in this state
Assisted living is a local decision, but the right community is often one town over — and a 20-minute difference in drive time decides how often anyone actually visits, which is the single thing that most affects how a resident does.
- Laurens — 3 communities, about 7 mi away
- Newberry — 1 community, about 20 mi away
- Woodruff — 1 community, about 21 mi away
- Union — 2 communities, about 22 mi away
- Ware Shoals — 1 community, about 22 mi away
- Pauline — 1 community, about 25 mi away
- Fountain Inn — 1 community, about 25 mi away
- Greenwood — 6 communities, about 25 mi away