U.S. News & World Report for the first time has recognized 73 hospitals as Maternity Care Access Hospitals.
Hospitals on the list are those providing maternity care to low-access communities throughout the U.S. and have acceptable performance on each of the quality measures used in determining U.S. News' Best Hospitals for Maternity Care. Read more about the methodology here.
Hospitals recognized as Maternity Care Access Hospitals were also required to meet geographic criteria. They were eligible if the hospital was either the only hospital providing maternity care within its county and was located in a county with fewer than 60 obstetric providers per 10,000 births, or if the hospital was the only hospital within a 15-mile radius and was located in a county with fewer than 128 obstetric providers per 10,000 births.
Hospitals did not make the Maternity Care Access Hospitals list if they received the lowest normalized value for unexpected newborn complications, C-sections, early elective delivery, or episiotomy, U.S. News said. Hospitals also didn't make the list if they reported an exclusive human milk feeding rate of less than 21.2%, which is the lowest decile of exclusive human milk feeding reported by The Joint Commission's Quality Check website for 2021.
Here are the 73 Maternity Care Access Hospitals — listed alphabetically by state below.
California
Enloe Medical Center (Chico)
Sutter Lakeside Hospital (Lakeport)
Florida
Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital (Vero Beach)
NCH Baker Hospital (Naples)
Orlando Health South Lake Hospital (Clermont)
Georgia
Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center (Rome)
Idaho
Intermountain Health Cassia Regional Hospital (Burley)
St. Joseph Regional Medical Center (Lewiston)
Illinois
Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital (DeKalb)
Northwestern Medicine-McHenry, Huntley, Woodstock Hospitals (McHenry)
Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center (Mattoon)
Indiana
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital (Muncie)
Kansas
Ascension Via Christi Hospital Manhattan
Louisiana
North Oaks Medical Center (Hammond)
Massachusetts
Southcoast Hospitals-Fall River, New Bedford and Wareham (Fall River)
Maryland
Carroll Hospital (Westminster)
Garrett Regional Medical Center (Oakland)
MedStar St. Mary's Hospital (Leonardtown)
Meritus Health-Hagerstown (Hagerstown)
Michigan
Corewell Health Big Rapids Hospital
Corewell Health Gerber Hospital (Fremont)
Corewell Health Ludington Hospital
Corewell Health Pennock Hospital (Hastings)
Corewell Health Greenville Hospital
MyMichigan Medical Center-Alma
MyMichigan Medical Center-West Branch
Minnesota
Allina Health Mercy Hospital-Coon Rapids
Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital (Grand Rapids)
Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea and Austin
Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing
M Health Fairview Lakes Medical Center (Wyoming)
M Health Fairview Northland Medical Center (Princeton)
M Health Fairview Ridges Hospital (Burnsville)
Missouri
Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital
Parkland Health Center-Farmington Community
North Carolina
Alamance Regional Medical Center (Burlington)
Atrium Health-Union (Monroe)
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital (Elkin)
Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital (Greensboro)
Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center
New Jersey
Southern Ocean Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health (Manahawkin)
New York
Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca
Samaritan Medical Center (Watertown)
Ohio
Licking Memorial Hospital (Newark)
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono (East Stroudsburg)
Lehigh Valley Hospital-Schuylkill South Jackson Street (Pottsville)
UPMC Northwest (Seneca)
WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital
WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital (Lebanon)
South Carolina
Roper St. Francis Berkeley Hospital (Summerville)
Tennessee
Texas
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Temple
Utah
Intermountain Health Cedar City Hospital
Intermountain Health St. George Regional Hospital
Virginia
Sentara CarePlex Hospital (Hampton)
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center (Woodbridge)
Sentara Obici Hospital (Suffolk)
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center
VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital (South Hill)
Washington
Wisconsin
Aurora Medical Center-Bay Area (Marinette)\
West Virginia
Berkeley Medical Center (Martinsburg)
United Hospital Center (Bridgeport)