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 | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure death ratelower is better | COPD death ratelower is better | CABG surgery death ratelower is better | Stroke death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 15.2% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 51 | Colleton Medical Center | 20.2%, 4th percentile | — | 12.2%, 27th percentile | 9.2%, 31st percentile | — | 11.3%, 56th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Colleton Medical Center |
| 52 | Newberry County Memorial Hospital | 21.1%, 2nd percentile | — | 13.1%, 14th percentile | — | — | — | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare Newberry County Memorial Hospital |
| 53 | KershawHealth | 22.7%, 1st percentile | — | 13.4%, 12th percentile | 9.0%, 36th percentile | — | 12.9%, 30th percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | 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.
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack patients.
- Heart failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure patients.
- COPD death rate
- 30-day death rate for COPD patients.
- CABG surgery death rate
- 30-day death rate for CABG surgery patients.
- Stroke death rate
- 30-day death rate for stroke 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.