Where to Give Birth in Charleston, South Carolina (2026): Hospitals Compared with CMS Data
Charleston, South Carolina has 3 hospitals that provide labor and delivery care, according to CMS Care Compare data. This page compares them on whether CMS has designated each hospital Birthing-Friendly and on each hospital’s overall star rating. One additional hospital in Charleston was excluded from this page because CMS’s current data marks it as not providing inpatient labor and delivery care.
1 hospital on Charleston, South Carolina’s general acute-care/critical-access hospital list was excluded because CMS’s current data marks it as not providing inpatient labor & delivery care.
Hospitals in Charleston, South Carolina that provide labor & delivery care
| Hospital | Location | CMS Overall Rating | Birthing-Friendly | Maternal safety bundle adopted | Patient experience (HCAHPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bon Secours-St Francis Xavier Hospital | Charleston, Charleston County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 79% would definitely recommend |
| Trident Medical Center | Charleston, Charleston County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 65% would definitely recommend |
| Musc Medical Center | Charleston, Charleston County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 72% would definitely recommend |
What CMS does not tell you
CMS has not published a hospital-level cesarean-delivery rate or a severe-maternal-complication rate in its current data release, and that is true nationwide, not specific to Charleston, so this page cannot show either number for any hospital listed here. A state-level NICU or perinatal level-of-care listing is also left off this page because it could not be verified against a current, authoritative source for Charleston.
How we built this page
This list was built by filtering CMS Hospital Type to Acute Care Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals, then excluding any hospital whose CMS Maternal Morbidity Structural Measure (SM_7) is marked “Not Applicable (does not provide inpatient labor/delivery care).”
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital General Information and Maternal Health – Hospital datasets, data.cms.gov. File released 2026-08-13. Maternal-health measurement period: calendar year 2024.
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) patient-experience survey, data.cms.gov. Measurement period 10/01/2024–09/30/2025.
