Hospital rankings
Hospitals in South Carolina with the lowest pneumonia death rate
53 South Carolina hospitals ranked by pneumonia death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Pneumonia death ratelower 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 | Time in emergency departmentlower is better | Medicare spending per patientlower is better | Total beds | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 15.2% | 3.3 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| 51 | Colleton Medical Center | 20.2%, 4th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 4, 76th percentile | — | 12.2%, 27th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 1.07, 23rd percentile | 124 min, 71st percentile | 0.95, 71st percentile | 135 | Compare Colleton Medical Center |
| 52 | Newberry County Memorial Hospital | 21.1%, 2nd percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 4, 76th percentile | — | 13.1%, 14th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | 0.87, 81st percentile | 110 min, 82nd percentile | 1.01, 38th percentile | 90 | Compare Newberry County Memorial Hospital |
| 53 | KershawHealth | 22.7%, 1st percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | — | 13.4%, 12th percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | 1.11, 18th percentile | 160 min, 42nd percentile | 1.10, 8th percentile | 119 | Compare KershawHealth |
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.
- Pneumonia death rate
- 30-day death rate for pneumonia patients.
- 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).
- Time in emergency department
- Median time patients spent in the emergency department before leaving.
- 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).