Fairforest Grove Senior Living

Is Fairforest Grove Senior Living a licensed assisted living facility in Columbia, SC?

Yes. Fairforest Grove Senior Living holds an active DPH license as a CRCF with 66 beds, larger than the 39-bed midpoint of the 64 senior-serving CRCFs we track in the six Midlands counties.

Licenses are issued to one legal operator at one street address for one year at a time; the current year began October 1, 2026. If the building changes hands, the new owner needs a new license and the number changes.

Sorted by license number, CRC-2220 falls at position 45 of 64 senior CRCFs in our six counties. Lower numbers generally mean an older license line, though not necessarily an older building.

Can Fairforest Grove Senior Living care for someone with dementia?

Only partly: DPH's record shows Alzheimer's care at Fairforest Grove Senior Living but no secured special care unit, so a resident who starts trying to leave would most likely have to move to a building with one.

Regulation 60-84 bars a CRCF from keeping a resident whom a physician considers a danger to self or others, and unsafe wandering is the usual reason that line is crossed. The closest senior CRCFs flagged for a secured unit are Brookdale Harbison (0.1 mi), Harbison Shores (1.7 mi), Generations of Irmo (1.8 mi).

Does Fairforest Grove Senior Living have any state penalties on record?

Not in the period we checked: Fairforest Grove Senior Living is absent from every DPH Healthcare Quality enforcement report from January 2025 to September 2026.

Keep that in proportion. Penalty orders are the exception; most problems DPH finds on a visit are closed out with a plan of correction that never appears in the monthly report.

How do I get the latest state inspection of Fairforest Grove Senior Living?

They are public, though not online. Under Regulation 60-84 Section 202.E, DPH releases inspection and complaint investigation reports for a CRCF such as Fairforest Grove Senior Living, with the correction plan and with names redacted, on written request.

DPH has no fixed inspection schedule for CRCFs, so ask when the last visit happened, what was cited, and to see the plan of correction the administrator signed.

If Fairforest Grove Senior Living has no opening, where else should we look?

The nearest other senior CRCF is Brookdale Harbison in Columbia, on the same block, licensed for 52 beds and flagged for an Alzheimer's special care unit.

Where is Fairforest Grove Senior Living, and how close are the hospitals?

Fairforest Grove Senior Living is located in Columbia's St. Andrews, Harbison & Broad River Road area, and Prisma Health Baptist Parkridge is the closest general hospital on DPH's list, about 1.0 miles away by straight line.

Lexington Medical Center is next, roughly 5.3 miles off. All distances are straight-line measurements between mapped points, not driving times.

Should nursing care become necessary, the two nearest CMS-certified nursing homes are Seven Oaks Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center (2.0 mi; CMS rating 1 of 5) and Presbyterian Communities of South Carolina-Columbia (3.9 mi; CMS rating 5 of 5).

What does Fairforest Grove Senior Living's record suggest asking on a tour?

Let DPH's data shape the visit: ask the date of the last DPH visit and whether you can read the report and the facility's response.

• With 66 beds full, Regulation 60-84 requires at least 9 staff on duty at peak times and 3 overnight; ask what the real numbers are.
• Ask whether Fairforest Grove Senior Living accepts Optional State Supplementation (OSS) or Community Choices Residential Personal Care if savings run out.
• Take the admission agreement home; South Carolina requires it to list every fee and give 30 days' written notice before a fee change.
• The licensee's home state is WA; ask who runs the building locally and who answers above the administrator.