CMS Care Compare · 2026 2 nursing homes South Carolina

Lancaster County, South Carolina

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County inventory for Lancaster County, South Carolina is drawn from U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Compare / Home Health Compare (14,710 Medicare-certified nursing homes nationwide) with cost context from the private CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey - see our methodology. Nursing-home inventory signature

2 nursing homes keep Lancaster County in the lower nursing-home inventory tercile (≤2 homes) - 274 licensed beds, CareScout 2025 South Carolina cost medians, CMS Five-Star averages.

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Sheet SC-LANCASTER-SOUTH-CAROLINA · Lancaster, SC

NH-ONE · BEDS-SMALL · STAR-MID · HH-SMALL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-NONE · AL-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • NH-ONE 2 homes
  • BEDS-SMALL 274 beds
  • STAR-MID 3.0★ avg
  • HH-SMALL 1 HH
  • RANK-MID #1,677/2,851
  • PHOTO-NONE No peer
  • AL-MID $5,350/mo
  • BOOK-FULL 2/2 NH · 1/1 HH

Stamps lead with nursing-home inventory tercile (low) plus licensed beds, Five-Star county average, Home Health Compare agencies, corpus NH-count rank, photo-finish peer, and CareScout assisted-living medians, not a generic peer board.

What a thin nursing-home book shows for Lancaster County

Lancaster County, South Carolina sits in the lower nursing-home inventory tercile with 2 nursing homes and 274 licensed beds - a thinner CMS book than most U.S. counties. Rated facilities average 3.0/5 (1 at 4★+, 1 at 1–2★). Home Health Compare still maps 1 agency here.

With a thinner CMS book, cost context matters more per facility: CareScout 2025 South Carolina medians run assisted living $5,350/mo, semi-private nursing $9,034/mo, private nursing $9,612/mo, home health aide $5,982/mo, adult day $1,560/mo. Verify rates with the named homes below.

Star counts across Lancaster County break as 1 at 2★, 1 at 4★. Ownership leans For profit - Corporation (50% of 2 homes). Named 4★+ examples include White Oak Manor - Lancaster. Families typically weigh the ladder alongside bed size, ownership, distance, and specialty units before visiting.

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Sources: CMS Nursing Home Compare + CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey. See methodology.

$5,350
Assisted Living / mo
$9,034
Nursing (Semi) / mo
$5,982
Home Care / mo
3.0
Avg CMS Rating

Nursing Homes in Lancaster County

2 CMS-certified homes in this county book, ordered by overall star rating.

Facility City Rating Beds Ownership
White Oak Manor - Lancaster Lancaster 4/5 132 For profit - Corporation
Lancaster Health and Rehabilitation Lancaster 2/5 142 For profit - Limited Liability company

Home Health Agencies in Lancaster County

Medicare-certified agencies from CMS Home Health Compare, zip-joined into this county inventory.

Agency City Quality Rating
Home Care of Lancaster Lancaster 3.5

Read next for a thin Lancaster inventory

Decode Five-Star for Lancaster County homes
Thin-book context for Lancaster: What a county-average CMS overall rating does — and does not — tell a family.
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A visit checklist that starts from CMS stars, then adds staffing, ownership, and specialty units.
Nursing home vs assisted living near Lancaster
Care-level and cost differences before you shortlist a CMS-certified facility.
Cost calculator for Lancaster County planning
State CareScout medians rolled into a monthly planning estimate.

Continue on the South Carolina elder-care overview or the highest-rated states ranking. Costs shown are South Carolina state-level medians from CareScout 2025 (county-level cost data is not available).

Read our methodology - how CMS Care Compare and CareScout 2025 are joined for Lancaster County.