These Are The Best Maternity Care Hospitals In MI

MICHIGAN — More than 30 hospitals in Michigan made the grade in a new ranking of the Best Hospitals for Maternity Care for 2023-24 released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report.

The ranking of 680 hospitals nationwide is a guide for parents making one of the most important decisions of their lives — where their baby will be born. Each hospital participating in the U.S. News survey received a scorecard describing their performance on a checklist of items parents look for when choosing where to have their baby.

Jennifer Winston, a health data scientist for U.S. News, said the top hospitals in the survey are those with a “high performing” designation for care given to patients with uncomplicated pregnancies. These hospitals had Cesarean Section rates of 26 percent or lower and newborn complication rates of 37 percent or lower, Winston explained in a news release.

Of the 33 Michigan hospitals that participated in the U.S. News maternity services survey, the following received the high performing designation:

• Beaumont Hospital-Grosse Pointe
• Beaumont Hospital-Trenton
• Beaumont Hospital-Troy
• Corewell Health Gerber Hospital
• Corewell Health Grand Rapids Hospitals
• Corewell Health Greenville Hospital
• Corewell Health Ludington Hospital
• Corewell Health Pennock Hospital
• Corewell Health Zeeland Hospital
• Henry Ford Allegiance Health-Jackson
• Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital
• Memorial Healthcare-Owosso
• University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor

New to the rankings this year is the inaugural “Maternity Care Access Hospitals” list, which highlights 73 hospitals providing services in what otherwise would be maternity care deserts that have “left millions of people without local access to maternity care” in some parts of the country, Winston said.

In Michigan, Maternity Care Access Hospitals are:

• MyMichigan Medical Center-Alma
• Corewell Health Big Rapids Hospital
• MyMichigan Medical Center-West Branch
• Corewell Health Greenville Hospital
• Corewell Health Gerber Hospital
• Corewell Health Pennock Hospital
• Henry Ford Allegiance Health-Jackson
• Corewell Health Ludington Hospital
• Memorial Healthcare-Owosso

Other Michigan hospitals that completed the U.S. News survey, but did not rank as “high performing” were:

• Ascension Borgess Hospital
• Ascension Genesys Hospital
• Ascension Providence Hospital-Southfield
• Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital
• Ascension St. John Hospital
• Ascension St. Joseph Hospital-Tawas City
• Beaumont Hospital-Dearborn
• Beaumont Hospital-Farmington Hills
• Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak
• Beaumont Hospital-Wayne
• Corewell Health Big Rapids Hospital
• Henry Ford Hospital
• Henry Ford Macomb Hospitals
• Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital
• McLaren Greater Lansing Hospital
• MyMichigan Medical Center-Alma
• MyMichigan Medical Center-Alpena
• MyMichigan Medical Center-Midland
• MyMichigan Medical Center-West Branch
• Sparrow Hospital

The hospitals are ranked on objective measures of quality. Including C-section rate, lower-risk pregnancies, newborn complication rates, exclusive breast milk feeding rates, early elective delivery rates, birthing-friendly practices and transparency on racial/ethnic disparities, among other measures. Read more about the methodology.