Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center is a 116-bed hospital holding nine consecutive “A” safety grades from The Leapfrog Group and earning the Leapfrog “Elite Top General Hospital” designation in both 2023 and 2024, making it one of approximately 30 hospitals nationwide to receive that distinction annually. The hospital earned the “Platinum Award” from Louisville, Ky.-based ScionHealth’s National Quality Strategy for three consecutive years, is the first hospital in South Carolina to achieve disease-specific certification for sepsis from The Joint Commission, and became the first hospital in the state to be designated a “Purple Heart Hospital” in June 2025. Carolina Pines partnered with Coker University to create a nursing school and pipeline program, launched “Project BOLD” to provide student loan forgiveness for new employees who commit to three-year terms, and in 2024 began accepting certified nursing assistant youth apprentices through a partnership with Florence Darlington Technical College and Apprenticeship Carolina. The hospital has added 17 new providers over the past two years, opened a multi-specialty center in a nearby town in 2024, and in 2026 introduced percutaneous coronary intervention services, a vascular surgery service line, and the ExcelsiusGPS spinal navigation system.
