Columbia Senior AdvisorWildewood Downs Assisted Living Community at 731 Polo Rd, Columbia (Richland County) is a community residential care facility, the license South Carolina uses for assisted living, with 57 licensed beds under DPH license CRC-2091 (current through June 30, 2027); its record carries DPH's Alzheimer's special care unit flag.
Is Wildewood Downs Assisted Living Community a licensed assisted living facility in Columbia, SC?
The state's record lists Wildewood Downs Assisted Living Community under license CRC-2091 with 57 beds and an expiration of June 30, 2027, larger than the Midlands midpoint of 39 beds per senior CRCF.
| Field | From the DPH record |
|---|---|
| DPH license number | CRC-2091 |
| License term on file | July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 |
| Licensed beds | 57 |
| Secured Alzheimer's unit flag | Yes |
| Alzheimer's care flag | Yes |
| Legal licensee | Wildewood Retirement LLC (home state NC) |
| Business form on the license | Limited Liability |
| Administrator named by DPH | Robert Hernandez |
| DPH penalty orders (January 2025 to September 2026) | 0 |
| Phone on the DPH record | (803) 419-1243 |
The term shown ends June 30, 2027, after which the operator must renew. Because the fee is charged per licensed bed, operators have no reason to overstate the number; it is the cap on how many residents may live here.
Sorted by license number, CRC-2091 falls at position 37 of 64 senior CRCFs in our six counties. Lower numbers generally mean an older license line, though not necessarily an older building.
Does DPH list an Alzheimer's unit at Wildewood Downs Assisted Living Community?
Yes. DPH's record for Wildewood Downs Assisted Living Community carries the Alzheimer's special care unit flag, meaning a secured program for residents with probable Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia that restricts their movement outside a designated area, as Regulation 60-84 Section 101.F describes it.
DPH's data records that a secured unit exists but not how many beds it holds. Ask how many residents the unit is designed for, how many live there now, and how long the wait is for a bed.
South Carolina's rules for these units are summarized on our memory care rules page.
Was Wildewood Downs Assisted Living Community fined by South Carolina?
Not in the period we checked: Wildewood Downs Assisted Living Community 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.
Where can I read Wildewood Downs Assisted Living Community's DPH inspection reports?
Write to DPH Healthcare Quality and ask: South Carolina keeps CRCF inspection reports off the internet, but Section 202.E of Regulation 60-84 makes them, and the facility's response, available to anyone who requests them in writing.
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.
Which licensed CRCFs are closest to Wildewood Downs Assisted Living Community in Columbia?
The nearest other senior CRCF is Mill Creek Manor in Columbia, about 0.4 miles away as the crow flies, licensed for 59 beds and flagged for an Alzheimer's special care unit.
| Facility | Miles away | Licensed beds | Alzheimer's unit / care (DPH) | DPH orders since Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Creek Manor 651 Polo Rd, 29223 | 0.4 | 59 | Unit + care | 1 |
| Addison's Community Care Home 4013 Percival Rd, 29229 | 1.3 | 9 | No | 0 |
| Blake at Woodcreek Farms 385 Spears Creek Church Rd, 29045 | 3.2 | 100 | Unit + care | 0 |
| Joanne's Community Care Home II 756 Farrowood Dr, 29223 | 3.3 | 9 | No | 0 |
| Rockhaven Community Care Home 524 Rockhaven Dr, 29223 | 3.5 | 10 | No | 0 |
Where is Wildewood Downs Assisted Living Community, and how close are the hospitals?
Wildewood Downs Assisted Living Community is located in Columbia's Northeast Columbia, Sandhills & Clemson Road area, and MUSC Health Columbia Medical Center-Northeast is the closest general hospital on DPH's list, about 4.2 miles away by straight line.
MUSC Health Columbia Medical Center Downtown is next, roughly 8.8 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 Wildewood Downs Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (0.0 mi; CMS rating 5 of 5) and Life Care Center of Columbia (2.0 mi; CMS rating 2 of 5).
Sharing this street address: Wildewood Downs Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (nursing home, license NCF-1036). On a shared campus a resident can often change levels of care without changing communities.
What does Wildewood Downs Assisted Living Community's record suggest asking on a tour?
Use the public record as your checklist: ask the date of the last DPH visit and whether you can read the report and the facility's response.
- Ask for a sample week of staff schedules: the legal floor for 57 residents is 8 staff at peak and 2 at night.
- Ask for the written dementia-care disclosure and the number of beds behind the secured doors.
- Ask what happens when a private-pay resident's savings are gone, and whether OSS residents are accepted.
- Read the admission agreement's fee schedule, refund terms and 30-day notice clause before you sign.
- The licensee's home state is NC; ask who runs the building locally and who answers above the administrator.
