Washington Regional Again Named State's Only High Performing Hospital for Maternity Care
U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, has once again named Washington Regional the state’s only High Performing hospital for Maternity Care for 2025. This is the highest award a hospital can earn as part of U.S. News’ Best Hospitals for Maternity Care annual study, and the third consecutive year Washington Regional has earned the high performing designation.
The Best Hospitals for Maternity Care ratings help expectant parents, in collaboration with their prenatal care team, in making informed decisions about where to receive maternity services that best meets their family’s needs.
Washington Regional earned a High Performing designation in recognition of maternity care as measured by factors such as severe unexpected newborn complication rates, birthing-friendly practices and transparency on racial/ethnic disparities, among other measures.
“Washington Regional understands that safe, compassionate care is important for expectant parents and their baby,” said Washington Regional President and CEO Larry Shackelford. “Washington Regional’s Women and Infants Center is committed to serving families with dedicated labor and delivery and mother/baby units, the region’s largest neonatal intensive care unit, the area’s only Ronald McDonald House, an infant nutrition lab, human milk depot location, two leading women’s health clinics and a maternal fetal medicine clinic. Washington Regional’s mission is to improve the health of people in the communities we serve, and we are proud to fulfill that mission by providing nationally recognized maternity care.”
U.S. News evaluated 817 hospitals from across the United States. Only half of all hospitals evaluated for the publication’s 2025 ratings edition have been recognized as Best Hospitals for Maternity Care.
“The hospitals recognized by U.S. News as Best Hospitals for Maternity Care showcase exceptional care for expectant parents,” said Jennifer Winston, PhD, health data scientist at U.S. News. “These hospitals demonstrate significantly lower C-section rates and severe unexpected newborn complications compared to hospitals not recognized by U.S. News.”
The U.S. News Best Hospitals for Maternity Care methodology is based entirely on objective measures of quality, such as C-section rates in lower-risk pregnancies, severe unexpected newborn complication rates, exclusive breast milk feeding rates, birthing-friendly practices and reporting on racial/ethnic disparities, among other measures. For more information, visit Best Hospitals for Maternity Care.