Nationally Ranked Hospital
Ranked #1 in
Charleston, SC
Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC is ranked nationally in 2 adult and 1 pediatric specialties. It was also high-performing in 11 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. It is accredited by the Joint Commission (JC).
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Adult Specialties
This hospital was among 140 facilities—fewer than 3 percent of the 4,825 analyzed for the latest Best Hospitals rankings—to be ranked in even one of the 16 specialties.
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Nationally Ranked |
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High-Performing |
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Pediatric Specialties
This hospital was among 76 facilities ranked in one or more of the 10 pediatric specialties in the 2011-12 version of Best Children's Hospitals.
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Nationally Ranked |
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 |
69%
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| National Average |
69%
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| Probably or definitely not |
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1%
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| State Average |
6%
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| National Average |
5%
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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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Contact
Medical University of South Carolina
169 Ashley Avenue
Charleston, SC 29425
(843) 792–2300
