Carlyle Senior Care Of Kingstree is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1978-07-01. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (843) 355-6116 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Carlyle Senior Care Of Kingstree holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 2 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (3★), Staffing (4★), and Quality of Resident Care (1★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 56.2/100, placing it #13020 of 14703 facilities nationally and #174 of 187 in South Carolina. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Carlyle Senior Care Of Kingstree receives a reported average of 3 hours 45 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 35 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 47 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 23 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 3 hours 18 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 4 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 42.7%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

In the current reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $8,788. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $8,788, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 1. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 27.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Carlyle Senior Care Of Kingstree ranks 13020th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 56.2/100), placing it in the bottom 25% nationwide. Within SC, it ranks 174th out of 187 nursing homes. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #6,776 nationally and RN hours rank #7,016 nationally (#74 in SC). Our composite quality score of 56.2/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in Kingstree, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/south_carolina/kingstree/