U.S. News & World Report is recognizing seven Georgia hospitals for maternity care quality and nine for maternity care access. That’s more than double last year’s number.
Georgia has made significant improvement in low-risk Cesarean births since last year, but the state still ranks 45th for preterm birth with a rate near 12 percent.
Jennifer Winston is a health data scientist with U.S. News & World Report. She says the state’s best maternity care hospitals, "are hospitals that have met our really high standards for a number of metrics of quality. Most we most heavily weighed C-section and severe unexpected newborn complications for that recognition."
Atrium Health in Milledgeville and Rome, and Northside hospitals in Canton and Lawrenceville are some of the hospitals who received high ratings.
