America's Best Maternity Hospitals 2023

By Ed Barredo

Having a baby can be one of the most joyous and fulfilling experiences in life. But expectant parents also face a number of important decisions like selecting a doctor, creating a birth plan and choosing a maternity hospital. The best hospitals provide mothers and babies with the highest quality care from pregnancy through birth and even postpartum. To help you pick the best hospital for your family's needs, Newsweek and the global market research and consumer data firm Statista are proud to announce our ranking of "America's Best Maternity Hospitals 2023." Our list names the top 384 leading hospitals for maternity care in the U.S., divided into two performance categories: five ribbon hospitals (159 institutions) and four ribbon hospitals (225 institutions). Within each category, hospitals are listed in alphabetical order.

The evaluation is based on three data sources: a nationwide online survey in which hospital managers and maternity healthcare professionals (e.g., neonatal care providers and OB/GYNs) were asked to recommend leading maternity hospitals; medical key performance indicator data relevant to maternity care (e.g., a hospital's rate of cesarean births); and patient satisfaction data (e.g., how patients rated a hospital's medical staff for responsiveness and communication).

We hope you find this ranking useful when choosing the right maternity hospital for your family.

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Table content Abbeville General HospitalAbbevilleLAAdventHealth OrlandoOrlandoFLAdventHealth Wesley ChapelWesley ChapelFLAdventist Health CastleKailuaHIAdvocate Christ Medical CenterOak LawnILAdvocate Lutheran General HospitalPark RidgeILAltru HospitalGrand ForksNDAscension Sacred Heart Emerald CoastMiramar BeachFL Table content Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical CenterWinston-SalemNCAurora Baycare Medical CenterGreen BayWIBanner - University Medical Center PhoenixPhoenixAZBanner Health CenterFort CollinsCOBaptist Medical Center BeachesJacksonville BeachFLBayCare St. Joseph's HospitalTampaFLBaylor Scott & White Medical Center - CentennialFriscoTX Table content Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - GrapevineGrapevineTXBaylor Scott & White Medical Center - IrvingIrvingTXBaylor Scott & White Medical Center - TempleTempleTXBaylor University Medical CenterDallasTXBeaumont Hospital, TroyTroyMIBeth Israel Deaconess Hospital - PlymouthPlymouthMABeth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterBostonMA Table content Billings Clinic HospitalBillingsMTBon Secours St. Francis HospitalCharlestonSCBoston Medical CenterBostonMABrookwood Baptist Medical CenterBirminghamALCentra Virginia Baptist HospitalLynchburgVACentura - Castle Rock Adventist HospitalCastle RockCOCentura - Parker Adventist HospitalParkerCO Table content Centura Littleton Adventist HospitalLittletonCOCleveland Clinic Fairview HospitalClevelandOHCleveland Clinic Hillcrest HospitalMayfield HeightsOHCommunity Hospital NorthIndianapolisINCooperman Barnabas Medical CenterLivingstonNJDartmouth Hitchcock Medical CenterLebanonNHDenver Health Medical CenterDenverCO Table content Duke University HospitalDurhamNCEl Camino Health - Mountain View HospitalMountain ViewCAEnglewood HealthEnglewoodNJFroedtert Hospital and the Medical College of WisconsinMilwaukeeWIGeisinger Bloomsburg HospitalBloomsburgPAGeisinger Medical CenterDanvillePAGood Samaritan HospitalCincinnatiOH Table content Harris Health Ben Taub HospitalHoustonTXHartford HospitalHartfordCTHealth One - Rose Medical CenterDenverCOHenry Ford HospitalDetroitMIHospital of the University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPAHouston Methodist HospitalHoustonTXHouston Methodist The Woodlands HospitalThe WoodlandsTX

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The America's Best Maternity Hospitals 2023 ranking awards the 384 leading maternity hospitals in the U.S.

Methodology:

The list is based on three data sources:

1. Nationwide online survey
From February to March 2023 over 10,000 hospital managers and maternity healthcare professionals with knowledge about maternity processes were asked to recommend leading maternity hospitals in the U.S.
Recommendations for their own employer/hospital were not allowed.
Participants were asked to rate the recommended maternity hospitals in several quality dimensions on a scale of 1-10: perinatal care, operative obstetrics, patient education, accommodation and service, and overall nurse and midwife staffing.
These assessments and the recommendations were used to determine the reputation score.

2. Results from patient surveys
Publicly available data from hospital surveys of patient experience during their hospitalizations. Survey topics included: cleanliness of the hospital, communication of the nurses/doctors, care transition, communication about medicines, discharge information, quietness, and staff responsiveness.
Those data were used to determine the patient score.

3. Hospital quality metrics
These are publicly available data from a variety of sources on indicators relevant to maternity care. From The Joint Commission, an independent, nonprofit hospital accreditation organization, data were available for: cesarean birth, perinatal care, as unexpected complications in term newborns per 1000 live births classified as overall, moderate and severe, and the advanced certification in perinatal care. Data on elective delivery, exclusive breast milk feeding, maternity morbidity structural measure, infection prevention and patient satisfaction was available from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
These data were used to determine the quality metrics score.
Based on predefined thresholds for each of the three data sources, awarded hospitals were grouped into two tiers: five-ribbon hospitals and four-ribbon hospitals.

*Five ribbon performance
= quality metrics score >83% + reputation score >68% + patient score >80% (159 hospitals)
*Four ribbon performance
= quality metrics score >75% + reputation score >65% + patient score >77% (225 hospitals)

Disclaimer: The rankings are comprised exclusively of hospitals that are eligible regarding the scope described in this document. The ranking is the result of an elaborate process which, due to the interval of data collection and analysis, is a reflection of the last 12 months. Furthermore, events preceding or following the period 23/03/2022 – 22/03/2023 and/or pertaining to individual persons affiliated/associated to the facilities were not included in the metrics. As such, the results of this ranking should not be used as the sole source of information for future deliberations.
The information provided in this ranking should be considered in conjunction with other available information about hospitals or, if possible, accompanied by a visit to a facility. Due to the focus on uncomplicated pregnancies, no conclusions towards high-risk pregnancies and specialized obstetrics care pertaining to these situations can be drawn from this ranking. Please note that data are subject to change and may be affected by continuing differences among states in abortion and childbirth complications. The quality of hospitals that are not included in the rankings is not disputed.

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