Marin General Hospital Recognized For Low C-Section Delivery Rate

GREENBRAE, CA – Marin General Hospital has once again been recognized for its low cesarean section delivery rates.

The Greenbrae-based hospital earned a Smart Care California Award and was named to the California Health and Human Services Agency's Hospital C-Section Honor Roll for the second consecutive year. The Honor Roll represents 111 California birthing hospitals that achieved low C-Section deliver rates.

"Earning this recognition is truly a team effort," said Hector Streeter, medical director of the OB Hospitalist Program at Marin General Hospital.

"Our multidisciplinary staff is dedicated to sustaining a low C-section rate and providing a safe birth experience for mothers and their babies, beginning with our childbirth preparation classes through a woman's stay in Labor & Delivery," said Anne Lupus, director of Women, Infants and Children's Services at Marin General Hospital.

In response to a rapid rise in unnecessary cesarean sections across the country, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services adopted the Healthy People 2020 target of reducing nationwide C-section rates to 23.9 percent for first-time mothers with a term pregnancy where the baby is head-first.

Progress has been made in reducing the state's low-risk first birth C-Section rate, especially after two decades of annual increases, according to the California Health and Human Services Agency. The hospitals that made the Smart Care C-section Honor Roll account for 45 percent of the 242 hospitals that offer maternity services in California.

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