Quality Report Card • Clinical Quality
Pregnancy Care
Pregnancy and childbirth care have changed significantly over the years and as a result, there is no single, universally accepted set of measures to indicate performance in this category. Our measures focus on c-section rates, maternal childbirth outcomes and complications, as well as patient satisfaction with care received.
Key
| Better Than U.S. Average | At or Near U.S. Average | Worse Than U.S. Average | No National Average or Too Few Cases |
How To Read This Report:
An explanation of the scores and how the cell coloring relates to them.
Desired Performance
This indicates if a high or low score is best for this metric. In some case the desired performance will be neutral. In this case the desired performance is neither high or low and a color rating is not assigned to the statistic of that metric..
Measures
| Primary c-section rate. | Neutral | 23.2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repeat c-section rate. | Neutral | 18.1 | ||
| Vaginal Birth after Cesarean Section | Neutral | 9.7 | 6.8 | |
| Neonatal Mortality | Low | 0.38 | 0.195 | |
| Length of stay for vaginal birth | Low | 2.1 | 2.1 | |
| Length of stay for c-section birth. | Low | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Last Updated 01/29/2010