Are you looking for the best hospitals in South Carolina?
Every year, U.S. News & World Report evaluates hospitals in every state and gives them a ranking based on their performance with certain procedures and conditions as well as their specialties. Despite evaluating 89 South Carolina hospitals, only nine met the high U.S. News & World Report standards. The best South Carolina hospital, according to this list, is Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston. This marks the tenth year in a row that MUSC was ranked number one, with three adult specialties and 16 procedures and conditions considered “high performing”. MUSC is also nationally ranked in one adult specialty and four pediatric specialties. (Health.USNews.com)
The three adult specialties are:
Nationally ranked specialties:
Each hospital evaluated by U.S. News & World report were judged by two criteria:
The other eight top SC hospitals on the list include:
Of these eight, only two (Lexington Medical Center and Prisma Health Richland Hospital) are in the Midlands of South Carolina (Health.USNews.com).
Lexington Medical Center in Columbia has placed on this short list four years in a row. They rank second again this year. This hospital was considered high performing for 15 adult procedures and conditions. Some of these include:
The average patient experience is a rating of four out of five stars. (HealthUSNews.com)
“The Leapfrog Group is a nonprofit watchdog organization that serves as a voice for health care consumers and purchasers, using their collective influence to foster positive change in U.S. health care.” This medical watchdog group publishes hospital safety scores biannually, in the spring and in the fall. These ratings are based on errors, accidents and infections.
In The Leapfrog Group’s Spring 2025 Hospital Safety Grades, “South Carolina ranked fifth among states with the safest hospitals overall, with 47.1% of its facilities earning an A ranking.” The State Newspaper
In Spring 2025, South Carolina was one of six states in the nation with the highest percentage of A grades, along with Utah, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Virginia.
Of the 52 ranked hospitals in SC, 24 received an ‘A’ grade, 11 received a ‘B’, 15 received a ‘C’, and 1 received a ‘D’. Cherokee Medical Center in Gaffney did not respond to the survey. Therefore, they received no grade. No SC hospitals received a grade of ‘F’.
The Leap Frog safety grades are based on two domains: Process/Structural Measures and Outcome Measures
To learn more about how these grades are determined and how to find your hospital’s rating, go to The Leapfrog Group .
It is important not to reject emergency treatment due to any of these rankings. Instead ask your doctor which hospital may be best for treatment.
To find the most up to date information on best hospitals in South Carolina, go to the Medicare.gov website.
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