Newsweek has released its annual list of the best maternity hospitals in the U.S., which includes 231 hospitals across 36 states.
Newsweek partnered with The Leapfrog Group to compile the list of hospitals that demonstrate excellence in maternity care. To be considered for the list, hospitals had to demonstrate they must Leapfrog's standard for the following measures: early elective delivery; nulliparous, term singleton, vertex cesarean sections, episiotomy; newborn bilirubin screening prior to discharge; and appropriate deep venous thrombosis prophylaxis in women undergoing cesarean delivery. Read more about the methodology here.
Below are the 231 hospitals that made the list, organized by state.
Alabama
Princeton Baptist Medical Center (Birmingham)
Vaughan Regional Medical Center (Selma)
Arizona
Shea Medical Center (Scottsdale)
Yuma Regional Medical Center
California
Adventist Health Lodi Memorial
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (Colton)
Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (Martinez)
Dominican Hospital (Santa Cruz)
Enloe Medical Center (Chico)
French Hospital Medical Center (San Luis Obispo)
Kaiser Permanente Antioch Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Modesto Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Redwood City Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Vacaville Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Anaheim Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Panorama Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center
Loma Linda University Medical Center - Murrieta
Los Angeles County - Olive View UCLA Medical Center (Sylmar)
Marian Regional Medical Center (Santa Maria)
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital (Los Angeles)
Mercy Hospital of Folsom
Natividad Medical Center (Salinas)
NorthBay Medical Center (Fairfield)
Northbridge Hospital Medical Center - Roscoe Boulevard Campus
Petaluma Valley Hospital
Pomerado Hospital (Poway)
Scripps Memorial Hospital of Encinitas
Sharp Grossmont Hospital (La Mesa)
St. Elizabeth Community Hospital (Red Bluff)
Stanford Health Care - ValleyCare (Pleasanton)
Tri-City Medical Center of Oceanside
UC San Diego Health Hillcrest - Hillcrest Medical Center (San Diego)
UC San Diego Health La Jolla - Jacobs Medical Center and Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center
University of California Davis Medical Center (Sacramento)
University of California Irvine Health (Orange)
Colorado
Centura Health Castle Rock Adventist Hospital
Centura Health - Avista Adventist Hospital (Louisville)
Centura Health - Littleton Adventist Hospital
Denver Health Medical Center
Longmont United Hospital
Lutheran Medical Center (Wheat Ridge)
North Suburban Medical Center (Thornton)
Rose Medical Center (Denver)
Saint Joseph Hospital (Denver)
St. Anthony Summit Medical Center (Frisco)
St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center (Grand Junction)
Delaware
ChristianaCare - Christiana Hospital (Newark)
District of Columbia
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Florida
AdventHealth Sebring
AdventHealth Wesley Chapel
Lakeland Regional Medical Center
Lakewood Ranch Medical Center
St. Joseph's Hospital - South (Riverview)
Tampa General Hospital
Georgia
Cartersville Medical Center
Wellstar North Fulton Hospital (Roswell)
Phoebe Sumter Medical Center (Americus)
Piedmont Fayette Hospital (Fayetteville)
Piedmont Henry Hospital (Stockbridge)
Piedmont Newnan Hospital
Tanner Medical Center of Carrollton
Wellstar Douglas Hospital (Douglasville)
Hawaii
Adventist Health Castle (Kailua)
Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center (Honolulu)
North Hawaii Community Hospital (Kamuela)
Idaho
St. Luke's Boise Medical Center
St. Luke's Meridian Medical Center
West Valley Medical Center (Caldwell)
Illinois
Carle Foundation Hospital (Urbana)
Mercy Hospital and Medical Center (Chicago)
NorthShore University HealthSystem - Evanston Hospital
Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
OSF Heart of Mary Medical Center (Urbana)
OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center (Ottawa)
Rush Copley Medical Center (Aurora)
Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center (Mattoon)
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia
Swedish Hospital (Chicago)
West Suburban Medical Center (Oak Park)
Indiana
Elkhart General Hospital
Parkview Regional Medical Center (Fort Wayne)
Saint Joseph Health Mishawaka Medical Center
Louisiana
Abbeville General Hospital
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Thibodaux Regional Health System
Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport (Monroe)
Maine
Cary Medical Center (Caribou)
Southern Maine Healthcare (Biddeford)
Mid Coast Hospital (Brunswick)
Northern Light Inland Hospital (Waterville)
York Hospital
Maryland
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (Baltimore)
MedStar St. Mary's Hospital (Leonardtown)
University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center (La Plata)
Massachusetts
Berkshire Medical Center (Pittsfield)
Cooley Dickinson Hospital (Northampton)
Heywood Hospital (Gardner)
Lowell General Hospital - Main Campus
Mount Auburn Hospital (Cambridge)
Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital
St. Luke's Hospital (New Bedford)
Michigan
Bronson Battle Creek
Dickinson County Healthcare System (Iron Mountain)
Henry Ford Allegiance Health (Jackson)
Lakeland Community Hospital Niles
McLaren - Bay Region (Bay City)
Memorial Healthcare (Owosso)
Mercy Health Saint Mary's (Grand Rapids)
Munson Medical Center (Traverse City)
Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital (Grand Rapids)
Spectrum Health United Hospital (Greenville)
Mississippi
Garden Park Medical Center (Gulfport)
Missouri
Centerpoint Medical Center (Independence)
Research Medical Center Main Campus (Kansas City)
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
Southeast Hospital (Cape Girardeau)
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis
New Hampshire
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital (Dover)
New Jersey
Cooper University Hospital (Camden)
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
Inspira Medical Center Elmer
Jersey Shore University Medical Center (Neptune)
Monmouth Medical Center (Long Branch)
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Ocean Medical Center (Brick)
Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital (Camden)
Virtua Voorhees Hospital
New Mexico
Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center (Sante Fe)
Lovelace Women's Hospital (Albuquerque)
Memorial Medical Center (Las Cruces)
New York
NYC Health and Hospitals - Woodhull
St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center (Syracuse)
North Carolina
Alamance Regional Medical Center (Burlington)
Atrium Health Cleveland (Shelby)
Duke Regional Hospital (Durham)
Duke University Hospital (Durham)
Harris Regional Hospital (Sylva)
Maria Parham Health (Henderson)
MH Mission Hospital McDowell (Marion)
New Hanover Regional Medical Center (Wilmington)
Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center (Bolivia)
Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center
Novant Health Matthews Medical Center
Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center (Charlotte)
Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center
Randolph Health (Asheboro)
Sentara Albemarle Medical Center (Elizabeth City)
University of North Carolina Hospitals (Chapel Hill)
Wake Forest Baptist Health - Lexington Medical Center
WakeMed Raleigh Campus
North Dakota
Altru Health System (Grand Forks)
Ohio
Adena Regional Medical Center (Chillicothe)
Cleveland Clinic Health System - Fairview Hospital
Fisher-Titus Medical Center (Nowalk)
Mercy Health - Tiffin Hospital
Mercy Medical Center (Canton)
MetroHealth Medical Center (Cleveland)
Mount Carmel Grove City
Mount Carmel St. Ann's Hospital (Westerville)
Ohio Health - Marion General Hospital
OhioHealth - O'Bleness Hospital (Athens)
OhioHealth Dublin Methodist Hospital
OhioHealth Grady Memorial Hospital (Delaware)
OhioHealth Grant Medical Center (Columbus)
OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital (Columbus)
Summa Health, Barberton Campus
Oklahoma
Mercy Hospital Ada
Oregon
Asante Three Rivers Medical Center (Grants Pass)
CHI Mercy Health Mercy Medical Center (Roseburg)
Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center (Clackamas)
Sky Lakes Medical Center (Klamath Falls)
Pennsylvania
Abington Memorial Hospital
Butler Memorial Hospital
Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital
Geisinger Medical Center (Danville)
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono (East Stroudsburg)
Meadville Medical Center
UPMC Harrisburg
WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital
Westmoreland Hospital (Greensburg)
Rhode Island
Landmark Medical Center (Woonsocket)
South Carolina
Mount Pleasant Hospital
Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital
Prisma Health Laurens County Hospital (Clinton)
Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital (Seneca)
Tennessee
Cumberland Medical Center (Crossville)
Erlanger East Hospital (Chattanooga)
LeConte Medical Center (Sevierville)
Tennova Healthcare - Cleveland Main Campus
Texas
Central Texas Medical Center (San Marcos)
Christus Mother Frances Hospital - Tyler
Guadalupe Regional Medical Center (Seguin)
Hill Country Memorial (Fredericksburg)
Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital
Peterson Regional Medical Center (Kerrville)
St. David's Round Rock Medical Center
United Regional Health Care System (Wichita Falls)
Utah
Logan Regional Hospital
McKay-Dee Hospital Center
Virginia
Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital (Newport News)
Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center (Portsmouth)
LewisGale Hospital - Montgomery (Blacksburg)
Novant Health UVA Health System Culpeper Medical Center
Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital (Charlottesville)
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center
University of Virginia Medical Center (Charlottesville)
Virginia Hospital Center - Arlington Health System
Washington
Harrison Medical Center - Silverdale
Highline Medical Center (Burien)
Northwest Hospital and Medical Center (Seattle)
PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center (Vancouver)
PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center (Longview)
St. Francis Hospital of Federal Way
Swedish Health Services Issaquah
Wisconsin
Bellin Memorial Hospital (Green Bay)
Watertown Regional Medical Center