Nationally Ranked Hospital
Ranked #1 in
South Carolina
Recognized in
Low Country
Recognized
in
Charleston, SC metro area
Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC is ranked nationally in 4 adult and 3 pediatric specialties. It was also high-performing in 9 adult specialties, as shown below. Medical University of South Carolina is a 696-bed general medical and surgical facility with 32,949 admissions in the most recent year reported. It performed 18,743 annual inpatient and 18,979 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 75,352 visits. Medical University of South Carolina is a teaching hospital.
These institutions were also considered in this hospital's specialty rankings:
Adult Specialties
This hospital was among 148 facilities—roughly 3 percent of the 4,793 analyzed for the latest Best Hospitals rankings—to be ranked in even one of the 16 specialties.
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High-Performing |
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Pediatric Specialties
This hospital was one of 87 facilities that made the rankings in at least one of the 10 specialties analyzed for the 2013-14 Best Children's Hospitals.
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Patient Satisfaction
Under a federal program, most U.S. hospitals now sample recently discharged patients and ask them about their stay. In a year's worth of surveys, here's how this hospital's patients responded to a key question, along with averages within the state and nationally.
Whether patients would recommend the hospital to friends and family:
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85%
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| State Average |
70%
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| National Average |
70%
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| Probably or definitely not |
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2%
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| State Average |
5%
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| National Average |
5%
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See complete patient satisfaction survey results
Details
For more about this hospital, see hospital details. The information shown is provided by the American Hospital Association, which compiles data on all U.S. hospitals through an annual survey and from other sources. Hospital ownership, number of doctors and nurses, volume of births and ER visits, and available services such as sports medicine are just a few examples of data collected by the AHA. Find out more at www.ahadata.com.
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Affiliated Hospitals or Services
Contact
Medical University of South Carolina
169 Ashley Avenue
Charleston, SC 29425
(843) 792–2300
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