Fonteum Care Compare · South Carolina · Charleston
Nursing homes in Charleston, South Carolina: 8 Medicare-certified facilities.
CMS overall star rating, staffing rating, health inspection rating, and ownership type for every Medicare-certified nursing home in Charleston — every column traced to the CMS Care Compare NH Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py).
Average CMS overall rating in Charleston: 3.5 / 5
How Charleston compares
Charleston vs the South Carolina state average
Overall ★ — this city
3.5
State avg 3.0 / 5
+0.5 vs state
Staffing ★ — this city
3.3
State avg 3.0 / 5
+0.3 vs state
Facilities — this city
8
187 statewide
State averages are CMS-published per-state means from the same snapshot; the city figure is the mean across the 8 rated facilities above.
Where Charleston sits
Charleston’s facilities span Charleston County (6) and Berkeley County (2) in South Carolina.
All Medicare-certified nursing homes in Charleston, South Carolina
Nhc Healthcare - Charleston
2230 Ashley Crossing Drive · CCN 425381 · For profit - Limited Liability company
88 certified beds · 80.6 avg daily residents · 5.18 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey May 15, 2025
5
Overall
5
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Bishop Gadsden Episcopal Health Care Center
1 Bishop Gadsden Way · CCN 425411 · Non profit - Corporation
41 certified beds · 25.9 avg daily residents · 5.59 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey April 25, 2025
5
Overall
5
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Kempton Of Charleston
194 Spring St · CCN 425418 · For profit - Corporation
23 certified beds · 20.3 avg daily residents · 4.88 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey May 6, 2025
5
Overall
3
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
White Oak Manor - Charleston
9285 Medical Plaza Dr · CCN 425128 · For profit - Corporation
176 certified beds · 162.1 avg daily residents · 3.99 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 2 / 5 · Last standard survey August 20, 2025
4
Overall
4
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Retreat At Wellmore Of Daniel Island
580 Robert Daniel Drive · CCN 425414 · For profit - Corporation
60 certified beds · 48.2 avg daily residents · 4.77 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey April 2, 2025
4
Overall
4
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
The Reserve Healthcare And Rehabilitation
1800 Eagle Landing Blvd · CCN 425289 · For profit - Limited Liability company
135 certified beds · 119.8 avg daily residents · 3.39 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey April 3, 2025
2
Overall
3
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Ashley River Healthcare
1137 Sam Rittenburg Blvd. · CCN 425362 · For profit - Limited Liability company
125 certified beds · 96.6 avg daily residents · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey April 10, 2025
2
Overall
1
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Riverside Health And Rehab
2375 Baker Hosp Blvd · CCN 425082 · For profit - Limited Liability company
160 certified beds · 151.9 avg daily residents · 2.84 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey April 15, 2025
1
Overall
1
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Reading the data
What these CMS ratings mean
Every star column on this page comes straight from CMS’s Five-Star Quality Rating System. Fonteum re-publishes the federal numbers without re-scoring them — the definitions below are CMS’s, not ours.
- Overall star rating
- A 1-to-5 summary CMS derives from the health-inspection, staffing, and quality-measure ratings. It is a relative ranking, not an absolute score — roughly the top fifth of facilities earn 5 stars and the bottom fifth earn 1.
- Health inspection rating
- Based on the three most recent state standard surveys plus any complaint investigations, weighted toward recency. More and more severe deficiencies lower the rating.
- Staffing rating
- Built from payroll-based (PBJ) nurse staffing hours per resident day, case-mix adjusted, including registered-nurse hours and weekend coverage.
- Quality-measure (QM) rating
- Drawn from a set of MDS- and claims-based clinical measures (e.g. pressure ulcers, falls, hospitalisation, antipsychotic use) across short- and long-stay residents.
- Special Focus Facility (SFF)
- A separate CMS program flagging facilities with a persistent pattern of serious health-inspection problems. “SFF” marks an active designation; “SFF Candidate” marks a facility on the candidate list.
Full methodology: how Fonteum sources and signs CMS nursing-home data.
Other South Carolina cities with nursing homes
Compare Charleston with nearby markets — facility counts from the same CMS snapshot.
Fonteum research on nursing-home quality
Star ratings vs actual resident harm
Where CMS overall stars diverge from documented harm-level deficiencies.
Nursing-home staffing deserts by county
Counties where reported nurse hours per resident day fall furthest behind.
Nursing-home ownership networks
How chain ownership concentrates across Medicare-certified facilities.
Facilities banned from new Medicare admissions
Payment-denial enforcement actions and the facilities they hit.