Hospital rankings
Hospitals in South Carolina with the lowest time in emergency department
52 South Carolina hospitals ranked by time in emergency department in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Time in emergency departmentlower is better | Overall star ratinghigher is better | Patient survey star ratinghigher is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Serious complicationslower is better | Medicare spending per patientlower is better | Total beds | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 162 min | 3.3 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| 51 | McLeod Regional Medical Center-Pee Dee | 238 min, 7th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 11.9%, 32nd percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | 1.07, 23rd percentile | 1.00, 44th percentile | 461 | Compare McLeod Regional Medical Center-Pee Dee |
| 52 | Anmed Health | 246 min, 6th percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 11.1%, 74th percentile | 12.4%, 23rd percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 0.77, 95th percentile | 1.11, 7th percentile | 533 | Compare Anmed Health |
About these rankings
Rankings use the 2026 release of CMS Care Compare data. Hospitals share a rank (“T”) when their values are equal, and only hospitals with a reported value for the sorted measure are ranked. Shading compares each value with every hospital in the country, so it doesn’t change with your filters. Small differences are often not statistically meaningful; use the methodology and glossary for context.
- Time in emergency department
- Median time patients spent in the emergency department before leaving.
- Overall star rating
- CMS overall hospital quality star rating (1-5).
- Patient survey star rating
- HCAHPS summary star rating (1-5).
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack patients.
- Heart failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure patients.
- Hospital-wide readmission rate
- Rate of unplanned readmission within 30 days, all conditions. From 2025 CMS reports the Hybrid Hospital-Wide Readmission measure (claims plus EHR data), which replaced the claims-only measure; values are close but not strictly comparable across the change. CMS suppressed it for 2026.. Latest available: 2025 release.
- Serious complications
- Patient safety and adverse events composite (PSI 90; 1.0 = national value).
- Medicare spending per patient
- Medicare spending per beneficiary episode relative to the national median (1.0 = national median).
- Total beds
- Total beds reported to CMS (Provider of Services file).