CALIFORNIA — 63 hospitals in California made the grade in a new ranking of the Best Hospitals for Maternity Care for 2023-24 released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report.
The ranking of 680 hospitals nationwide is a guide for parents making one of the most important decisions of their lives — where their baby will be born. Each hospital participating in the U.S. News survey received a scorecard describing their performance on a checklist of items parents look for when choosing where to have their baby.
Jennifer Winston, a health data scientist for U.S. News, said the top hospitals in the survey are those with a “high performing” designation for care given to patients with uncomplicated pregnancies. These hospitals had Cesarean Section rates of 26 percent or lower and newborn complication rates of 37 percent or lower, Winston explained in a news release.
Of the 89 California hospitals that participated in the U.S. News maternity services survey, the following received the high performing designation:
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center-Berkeley, High PerformingArrowhead Regional Medical Center, High PerformingBakersfield Memorial Hospital, High PerformingCalifornia Pacific Medical Center-Van Ness Campus, High PerformingCommunity Memorial Hospital-Ventura, High PerformingCorona Regional Medical Center, High PerformingEden Medical Center, High PerformingEl Camino Health-Mountain View, High PerformingEnloe Medical Center, High PerformingJohn Muir Health-Walnut Creek Medical Center, High PerformingKaiser Permanente Anaheim and Irvine Medical Centers, High PerformingKaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center, High PerformingKaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center, High PerformingKaiser Permanente Fontana and Ontario Medical Centers, High PerformingKaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, High PerformingKaiser Permanente Panorama City Medical Center, High PerformingKaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center, High PerformingKaiser Permanente San Diego Zion and San Diego Medical Center, High PerformingKaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center, High PerformingKaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center, High PerformingKaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center, High PerformingLoma Linda University Children’s Hospital, High PerformingLoma Linda University Medical Center-Murrieta, High PerformingLucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, High PerformingMemorial Medical Center-Modesto, High PerformingMemorialCare Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital Long Beach, High PerformingMemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center, High PerformingMethodist Hospital of Sacramento, High PerformingMills-Peninsula Health Services-Burlingame, High PerformingNorthBay Medical Center, High PerformingPalomar Medical Center Escondido, High PerformingPIH Health Hospital-Whittier, High PerformingPomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, High PerformingProvidence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance, High PerformingProvidence Mission Hospital-Mission Viejo and Laguna Beach, High PerformingProvidence Saint John’s Health Center, High PerformingProvidence St. Joseph Hospital-Orange, High PerformingProvidence St. Jude Medical Center, High PerformingRedlands Community Hospital, High PerformingRiverside University Health System-Medical Center, High PerformingSalinas Valley Health Medical Center, High PerformingSanta Clara Valley Medical Center, High PerformingSanta Rosa Memorial Hospital, High PerformingScripps Memorial Hospital-Encinitas, High PerformingScripps Mercy Hospital, High PerformingSharp Chula Vista Medical Center, High PerformingSharp Grossmont Hospital, High PerformingSouthwest Healthcare System-Murrieta, High PerformingSt. Joseph Hospital-Eureka, High PerformingSt. Mary Medical Center-Apple Valley, High PerformingStanford Health Care Tri-Valley, High PerformingSutter Coast Hospital, High PerformingSutter Davis Hospital, High PerformingSutter Delta Medical Center, High PerformingSutter Lakeside Hospital, High PerformingSutter Medical Center, High PerformingSutter Roseville Medical Center, High PerformingSutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital, High PerformingTri-City Medical Center, High PerformingUC San Diego Health-La Jolla and Hillcrest Hospitals, High PerformingUCI Medical Center, High PerformingUCLA Medical Center, High PerformingUCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, High Performing
New to the rankings this year is the inaugural “Maternity Care Access Hospitals” list, which highlights 73 hospitals providing services in what otherwise would be maternity care deserts that have “left millions of people without local access to maternity care” in some parts of the country, Winston said.
In California, Maternity Care Access Hospitals are:
Memorial Hospital Los BanosEnloe Medical CenterSutter Lakeside Hospital
Other California hospitals that completed the U.S. News survey, but did not rank as “high performing” were:
Adventist Health Glendale, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingAdventist Health-White Memorial, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingCedars-Sinai Medical Center, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingEisenhower Medical Center, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingEmanate Health Queen of The Valley Hospital, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingHoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingHollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingHuntington Hospital, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingKaiser Permanente Moreno Valley Medical Centerm Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingMemorial Hospital Los Banos, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingMemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingNatividad Medical Center, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingPetaluma Valley Hospital, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingPIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingProvidence Holy Cross Medical Center, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingQueen of the Valley Medical Center, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingScripps La Jolla Hospitals, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingSharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingSutter Amador Hospital, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingSutter Maternity and Surgery Center of Santa Cruz, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingSutter Tracy Community Hospital, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingTorrance Memorial Medical Center, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingUC Davis Medical Center, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingUCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingUSC Arcadia Hospital, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High PerformingUSC Verdugo Hills Hospital, Participated in maternity services survey -Not High Performing
The hospitals are ranked on objective measures of quality. Including C-section rate, lower-risk pregnancies, newborn complication rates, exclusive breast milk feeding rates, early elective delivery rates, birthing-friendly practices and transparency on racial/ethnic disparities, among other measures. Read more about the methodology.
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