22 PA Facilities Ranked Among America’s Best Maternity Hospitals

PENNSYLVANIA — Twenty-two facilities in Pennsylvania are among America’s best maternity hospitals, according to a recent ranking from Newsweek.

Where their baby will be born is one of the most important decisions parents can make, with the quality of care from pregnancy through birth through postpartum and the selection of a doctor and birthing plan at the top of their concerns, Newsweek said with the release of the ranking.

The list of 384 hospitals and maternity care centers are divided into two categories, with 159 institutions earning five-ribbon status and 225 with four-ribbon status.

Five-ribbon institutions in Pennsylvania are:

• Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital, Bloomsburg
• Geisinger Medical Center, Danville
• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• Jefferson Health - Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia
• Main Line Health - Bryn Mawr Hospital, Bryn Mawr
• Main Line Health - Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood
• Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey
• Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia
• UPMC Magee - Women's Hospital, Pittsburgh

These Pennsylvania hospitals were given four-ribbon status:

• Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia
• Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital, Greensburg
• Jefferson Abington Hospital, Abington
• Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster
• Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono, East Stroudsburg
• Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest, Allentown
• Main Line Health - Paoli Hospital, Paoli
• Mount Nittany Medical Center, State College
• Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital, West Chester
• Reading Hospital, West Reading
• St. Luke’s University Hospital - Bethlehem Campus, Bethlehem
• Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia
• West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh

Newsweek partnered with the global research and consumer data company Statista to rank the hospitals.

The ranking is based on data from three sources: a nationwide online survey of hospital managers and health care professionals, including neonatal specialists and OB/GYNs asking their recommendations for maternity care; key performance data on maternity care, including cesarean birth rates; and patient satisfaction data.

Patch’s national desk contributed to this report.