1 Medical Park Drive, Chester, SC, 29706 · (803) 581-3151
Beds
33
FY 2025
Star rating
Not rated
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$69.1M
FY 2025
Net income
-$1.4M
Patient care margin -15.8%
Discharges
821
Occupancy 23.5%
Clinicians
101
Medicare clinicians who work here
From the hospital's yearly cost reports (fiscal years as the hospital reports them)
Locations are shown at the center of the ZIP code.
US dollars as reported. Patient care margin = net patient revenue minus operating expenses, before other income such as grants, donations and investments.
| Fiscal year | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Patient care margin | Net income | Discharges | Uncompensated care | Medicare days | Medicaid days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $69.1M | $79.9M | -15.8% | -$1.4M | 821 | $4.4M | 26.3% | 14.2% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.4% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 14.3% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.5% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.8% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 16.5% | US median 17.2% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
| Diagnosis group | Stays | Average charge | Medicare pays per stay | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 13 | $44,135.85 | $12,467.92 | $9,867.73 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group |
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Official US government data: hospital records, ownership records, yearly cost reports and quality measures, linked by the hospital's CCN and NPI. Financials are for fiscal years as reported by the hospital.
| 2024 | $63.7M | $69.9M | -9.7% | -$2.2M | 866 | $4.7M | 30.5% | 39.3% |
| 2023 | $56.5M | $66.7M | -18.1% | -$5.7M | 824 | $4.2M | 17.8% | 23.4% |
| 2022 | $48.2M | $54.9M | -14.0% | -$1.0M | 744 | $4.3M | 26.1% | 6.6% |
| 2021 | $37.9M | $53.2M | -40.2% | -$5.7M | 686 | $3.1M | 30.6% | 4.4% |
| 2020 | $24.8M | $30.4M | -22.1% | -$2.2M | 642 | $1.8M | 39.7% | 9.3% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.95 | US median 0.96 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 79% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 73% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 62% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 64% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 74% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 58% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 1% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 148 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 19% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 71% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 83% | US median 79% |
| Services |
|---|
| Patients |
|---|
| Medicare pays per service |
|---|
| All hospitals |
|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 20 | 17 | $1,950.24 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 15 | 15 | $2,256.30 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 11 | - | $10,178.68 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | - | - | - | $2,141.49 |
| APC 5092 Level 2 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures | - | - | - | $4,981.95 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5116 Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $15,762.73 |
| APC 5155 Level 5 Airway Endoscopy | - | - | - | $5,183.46 |
| APC 5182 Level 2 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $1,204.32 |
| APC 5192 Level 2 Endovascular Procedures | - | - | - | $4,338.16 |
| APC 5193 Level 3 Endovascular Procedures | - | - | - | $8,873.86 |
Official US government data on Original Medicare hospital stays and outpatient services; groups with fewer than 11 cases are not published. Payments are those drug and device companies must report.
MUSC Health Chester Medical Center is a government-owned short-term acute care hospital in Chester, SC with 33 beds, part of Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center.
MUSC Health Chester Medical Center in Chester, SC has 33 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 82 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 821 inpatients that year, with 23.5% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), MUSC Health Chester Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $69.1M and operating expenses of $79.9M, a margin on patient care of -15.8%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$1.4M (-1.7% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
MUSC Health Chester Medical Center is part of Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center, a health system with 7 hospitals based in Charleston, SC. It is a government-owned hospital.
MUSC Health Chester Medical Center has no overall star rating, usually because it reports too few quality measures (for example small, specialty or federal hospitals).
Yes, MUSC Health Chester Medical Center provides emergency services.
101 Medicare clinicians list MUSC Health Chester Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Emergency Medicine, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (Crna).
In 2024, MUSC Health Chester Medical Center had 13 Medicare inpatient stays in 1 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 193 (simple pneumonia and pleurisy with mcc) with 13 stays; Medicare paid $12,467.92 per stay on average, compared with $9,867.73 across all hospitals.