Fairfield County’s Peach Tree Manor will have its DHEC license revoked as the result of a ruling by Administrative Law Court Judge Paige Gossett.
The ruling, based on a 2006 DHEC investigation, was announced Wednesday at a hearing held in connection with an incident at the facility last week.
According to DHEC spokesman Thom Berry, Peach Tree owner David Donnelly may appeal the decision to the South Carolina Court of Appeals.
On March 28 residents of the facility were removed after a report reached the Department of Health and Environmental Control that those people living at Peach Tree were not receiving their medications. An additional report to the media stated that the facility had no gas or phone service. Fairfield County EMS and Sheriff’s deputies took the residents to Fairfield Memorial Hospital to be checked out and then to a facility in Sumter.
Peach Tree’s DHEC license was suspended prior to this incident, but the facility was allowed to continue operating pending a decision by Gossett.
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