U.S. News & World Report released its 2026 Best Hospitals for Maternity Care ratings Dec. 9, which also recognize hospitals providing services to underserved communities.
The media company used self-reported maternity care data to identify 147 hospitals as Maternity Care Access Hospitals for providing maternity services in areas that would otherwise lack adequate access to such care.
Hospitals were eligible if they met geographic and quality criteria. They met geographic criteria if they were the only hospital providing maternity care within their county and the county had fewer than 60 obstetric providers per 10,000 births. Alternatively, hospitals qualified if they were the only facility within a 15-mile radius and were located in a county with fewer than 128 obstetric providers per 10,000 births.
In terms of quality, these hospitals also demonstrated performance above the lowest normalized values for severe unexpected newborn complications, C-sections or episiotomy rates. Read more about the methodology here.
Here are the 147 Maternity Care Access Hospitals, listed alphabetically by state:
Alabama
North Baldwin Infirmary (Bay Minette)
California
Enloe Health (Chico)
Adventist Health and Rideout (Marysville)
Sutter Lakeside Hospital (Lakeport)
Colorado
Montrose Regional Health
UCHealth Parkview Medical Center (Pueblo)
Connecticut
Sharon Hospital
Florida
Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast (Miramar Beach)
Orlando Health South Lake Hospital (Clermont)
NCH Baker Hospital (Naples)
Parrish Medical Center (Titusville)
Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital, (Vero Beach)
Georgia
Northeast Georgia Medical Center (Gainesville)
Northside Hospital Cherokee (Canton)
Tanner Medical Center-Carrollton
Piedmont Newton Hospital (Covington)
Northside Hospital Forsyth (Cumming)
Northeast Georgia Medical Center (Habersham)
WellStar Douglas Hospital (Douglasville)
Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin (Milledgeville)
Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center (Rome)
Idaho
Cassia Regional Hospital (Burley)
St. Joseph Regional Medical Center (Lewiston)
Illinois
Alton Memorial Hospital
Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital (DeKalb)
Northwestern Medicine McHenry
Indiana
Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center (Jasper)
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital (Muncie)
Indiana University Health Paoli Hospital
Ascension St. Vincent Randolph (Winchester)
Iowa
Shenandoah Medical Center
Kansas
Ascension Via Christi Hospital (Manhattan)
Amberwell Health (Atchison)
Coffeyville Regional Medical Center
Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital (El Dorado)
Amberwell Hiawatha
Labette Health (Parsons)
Mercy Hospital Pittsburg
Kentucky
Owensboro Health Regional Hospital
Ephraim McDowell Fort Logan Hospital (Stanford)
Louisiana
St. Tammany Health System (Covington)
North Oaks Medical Center (Hammond)
Maine
Central Maine Medical Center (Lewiston)
Maryland
UPMC Western Maryland (Cumberland)
University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center (Bel Air)
Meritus Health (Hagerstown)
Garrett Regional Medical Center (Oakland)
Carroll Hospital (Westminster)
Massachusetts
Southcoast Hospitals Group (Fall River)
Michigan
Trinity Health Muskegon Hospital
MyMichigan Medical Center Alma
Corewell Health Lakeland Hospitals (St. Joseph)
Corewell Health Big Rapids Hospital
Corewell Health Gerber Hospital (Fremont)
Corewell Health Pennock Hospital (Hastings)
Henry Ford Jackson Hospital
Corewell Health Ludington Hospital
Memorial Healthcare (Owosso)
MyMichigan Medical Center Sault (Sault Sainte Marie)
Minnesota
M Health Fairview Lakes Medical Center (Wyoming)
Mayo Clinic Health System—Albert Lea and Austin (Albert Lea)
Mercy Hospital (Coon Rapids)
Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital (Grand Rapids)
Missouri
St. Luke’s North Hospital—Barry Road (Kansas City)
Parkland Health Center—Farmington Community (Farmington)
Mercy Hospital Aurora
Mercy Hospital Jefferson (Festus)
Mercy Hospital Washington
Mississippi
Singing River Health System (Pascagoula)
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County (New Albany)
Montana
Intermountain Health St. James Hospital (Butte)
Nebraska
Columbus Community Hospital
Nevada
Renown Regional Medical Center (Reno)
New Hampshire
Cheshire Medical Center (Keene)
New Jersey
Hackensack Meridian Health Southern Ocean Medical Center (Manahawkin)
Newton Medical Center
New York
Putnam Hospital (Carmel)
Nicholas H. Noyes Memorial Hospital (Dansville)
Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca
UPMC Chautauqua (Jamestown)
North Carolina
Cone Health Moses Cone Hospital (Greensboro)
Atrium Health Stanly (Albemarle)
Cone Health Alamance Regional Medical Center (Burlington)
Cape Fear Valley Medical Center (Fayetteville)
Watauga Medical Center (Boone)
Sentara Albemarle Medical Center (Elizabeth City)
UNC Health Southeastern (Lumberton)
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Wilkes Medical Center (North Wilkesboro)
UNC Health Nash (Rocky Mount)
Novant Health Rowan Medical Center (Salisbury)
Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center (Bolivia)
Atrium Health Cleveland (Shelby)
Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center
Ohio
Trinity Health System (Steubenville)
Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital (Dover)
Licking Memorial Hospital (Newark)
Oklahoma
Mercy Hospital Ardmore
St. Francis Hospital Muskogee
Oregon
Asante Three Rivers Medical Center (Grants Pass)
Mercy Medical Center (Roseburg)
Pennsylvania
WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital (Lebanon)
UPMC Northwest (Seneca)
UPMC Horizon (Farrell)
UPMC Altoona
UPMC Carlisle
WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital
Lehigh Valley Hospital—Pocono (East Stroudsburg)
Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital (Greensburg)
Lehigh Valley Hospital—Hazleton
Lehigh Valley Hospital—Schuylkill (Pottsville)
Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital (Sayre)
UPMC Williamsport
South Carolina
MUSC Health Lancaster Medical Center (Lancaster)
Roper St. Francis Berkeley Hospital (Summerville)
Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital (Seneca)
Spartanburg Medical Center—Church Street Campus
Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital (Sumter)
Colleton Medical Center (Walterboro)
Tennessee
Vanderbilt Tullahoma Harton Hospital
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City
Texas
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Stephenville
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center—Temple
Utah
Cedar City Hospital (Cedar City)
Delta Community Medical Center
Heber Valley Hospital (Heber City)
Sanpete Valley Hospital (Mount Pleasant)
Sevier Valley Hospital (Richfield)
St. George Regional Hospital
Ashley Regional Medical Center (Vernal)
Garfield Memorial Hospital (Panguitch)
Vermont
Rutland Regional Medical Center
Virginia
Centra Lynchburg General Hospital
UVA Health Culpeper Medical Center
Centra Southside Community Hospital (Farmville)
Sentara CarePlex Hospital (Hampton)
UVA Health Prince William Medical Center (Manassas)
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center (Woodbridge)
Washington
St. Michael Medical Center (Silverdale)
Providence Centralia Hospital
Samaritan Healthcare (Moses Lake)
West Virginia
WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center (Parkersburg)
Wisconsin
ThedaCare Medical Center-Berlin
Tamarack Health Hayward Medical Center (Hayward)
Aurora Medical Center—Bay Area (Marinette)
Marshfield Medical Center
ThedaCare Medical Center—Shawano
