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Providence Seaside Hospital: labor and delivery in Seaside, OR

Providence Seaside Hospital is a hospital in Seaside, Clatsop County, Oregon that delivers babies. It handled 53 deliveries in 2025. Of first-time mothers with a full-term, single, head-down baby, 20% delivered by C-section (25 such births). That is below the Oregon rate of 23% and below the U.S. median of 26%.

20%First-birth C-section rate
53Deliveries in 2025
YesBirthing-Friendly designation
281Severe complications per 10,000 deliveries
4 of 5Patient survey stars
3 of 5Overall hospital stars

Birth services at Providence Seaside Hospital

Newborn care: NICU on site
Midwifery care
Doula support
Lactation consultants
Childbirth and parenting classes
Birth center tours
High-risk pregnancy and maternal-fetal medicine care

Tour, class and care-team details are on the hospital's maternity page.

Address and phone

725 S Wahanna Road
Seaside, OR 97138
Clatsop County

Call (503) 717-7000 Directions

Emergency department: Yes
Hospital type: Critical Access hospital
Ownership: Nonprofit, Church

How Providence Seaside Hospital compares

Measure, 2025	This hospital	Oregon	U.S.
First-birth C-section rate	20%	23%	26% (median)
Severe complications per 10,000 deliveries	281	256	285
Severe complications, not counting transfusion-only cases, per 10,000	65	–	68

Severe-complication ranking among U.S. hospitals: Middle 50%.

In Oregon, Providence Seaside Hospital has the 12th-lowest first-birth C-section rate of 39 hospitals that report one.

The first-birth C-section rate counts first-time mothers with a full-term, single, head-down baby. Complication rates are adjusted for patient risk. Our data explains each number.

What patients say

Patient survey summary: 4 of 5 stars
76% of patients would definitely recommend this hospital
74% of patients rated this hospital 9 or 10 out of 10

Survey results cover all patients at the hospital, not only maternity patients.

Birthing-Friendly designation

Providence Seaside Hospital holds the federal Birthing-Friendly designation. Hospitals earn it by taking part in a perinatal quality collaborative and following maternal safety practices.

Other hospitals that deliver babies near Seaside

Hospital	City	Miles	First-birth C-section rate	Deliveries, 2025	Birthing-Friendly
Columbia Memorial Hospital	Astoria	14	32%	237	–
Adventist Health Tillamook	Tillamook	37	24%	131	Yes
Peacehealth St John Medical Center	Longview	48	24%	772	Yes
Hillsboro Medical Center	Hillsboro	56	24%	902	Yes
Kaiser Foundation Hospital Westside	Hillsboro	56	–	1,237	Yes
Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center	Vancouver	64	25%	3,277	Yes