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This page explains where every number on Labor and Delivery Near Me comes from and what it means. The site states facts and does not give medical advice. For decisions about your care, talk with your doctor or midwife, and call the hospital to confirm that it delivers babies and what it offers.

Source

All hospital data comes from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Provider Data Catalog, downloaded November 14, 2026. The files used are:

  • Maternal Health – Hospital (dataset nrdb-3fcy): the cesarean birth measure (PC-02), the severe obstetric complications measures (PC-07a and PC-07b), and the Maternal Morbidity Structural Measure that determines Birthing-Friendly status. Reporting period January 1 to December 31, 2025.
  • Maternal Health – National and – State (anxg-51lp and by6q-6tc4): the U.S. and state comparison figures.
  • Birthing Friendly Hospitals with Geocoded Addresses (hbf-map): hospital names, street addresses and map coordinates.
  • Hospital General Information (xubh-q36u): phone numbers, hospital type, ownership, emergency services and overall star rating.
  • Patient survey (HCAHPS) – Hospital (dgck-syfz): patient survey stars and recommendation percentages.
  • ZIP code center points from the U.S. Census Bureau 2023 Gazetteer, and county names from the Census Bureau 2020 county list.

Which hospitals are listed

A hospital is listed as delivering babies when it reports completed obstetric measures for 2025 or answers the Maternal Morbidity Structural Measure with Yes or No. That gives 2,435 hospitals in 52 states and territories. 2,179 have a reported first-birth C-section rate, 2,352 have a reported delivery count, and 2,242 hold the Birthing-Friendly designation. Where a hospital has not reported a measure, the page leaves that line out.

Hospitals that answer the structural measure with "not applicable, our hospital does not provide inpatient labor/delivery care" are listed on county and city pages as hospitals without labor and delivery (1,334 general acute care and critical access hospitals). Hospitals whose status is not available, or whose answers conflict, are not listed either way, and counties where that applies are not shown as counties without labor and delivery. Freestanding birth centers and home-birth providers are not part of this data.

What each number means

  • First-birth C-section rate. Of mothers having a first baby who deliver a full-term, single baby in the head-down position, the percentage who deliver by C-section. This is the CMS cesarean birth measure (PC-02). The U.S. median in 2025 is 26%, and the best 10 percent of hospitals report 16% or lower. The count of qualifying births is shown on hospital pages when reported.
  • Deliveries in 2025. The number of delivery hospitalizations counted in the severe complications measure.
  • Severe complications per 10,000 deliveries. The risk-adjusted rate of delivery hospitalizations with a severe obstetric complication (PC-07a). The second figure, PC-07b, leaves out cases where a blood transfusion was the only complication. The U.S. rates are 285 and 68. Hospitals are ranked top 25 percent, middle 50 percent or bottom 25 percent among U.S. hospitals, with the top group having the fewest complications.
  • Birthing-Friendly designation. A federal designation for hospitals that take part in a state or national perinatal quality collaborative and use structured processes to improve maternal safety.
  • Overall hospital stars and patient survey stars. One to five stars covering the whole hospital, not only maternity care.

Distances

Miles on hospital and county pages are straight-line distances between map points, not driving distances. Map points are the hospital coordinates where available and otherwise the center of the hospital's ZIP code. Hospitals within about 150 miles are considered.

Updates and corrections

CMS refreshes these files on a regular schedule and we rebuild from each new release. To report a correction, email contact@laboranddeliverynearme.com.