The ranking site at health.usnews.com/best-hospitals encouraged people to search to find hospitals that provide high-quality labor and delivery services for uncomplicated pregnancies.
It evaluated how well hospitals perform in childbirth using C-section rates, newborn complication rates, breast milk feeding rates, early elective delivery rates and if a hospital offers vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC).
According to U.S. News, due to the lower age of the patients seeking maternity care, much of the data used in the methodology were collected directly from hospitals rather than from Medicare data.
In part due to this, only hospitals deemed “High Performing” received an actual rating.
Other hospitals that participated in the survey have a scorecard describing their performance on individual metrics, but do not have an overall rating.
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