UAB rated amongst Best Hospitals for Maternity Care by U.S. News & World Report
UAB Hospital was rated as “high-performing” – the very best degree awarded – within the 2022-2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals for Maternity Care rankings.
“This recognition is a full reflection of the amazing quality of care and expertise that our nurses, staff, advanced-practice providers and faculty provide every day,” stated Dr. Warner Huh, chair of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. “It’s truly gratifying to see this group be properly recognized for their selfless, compassionate work and how they strive to always put our patients and their families first. I look forward to the future and to establishing new programs and setting new standards for maternity care at UAB.”
A deeper dive into the survey information and methodology present:
- Of the 649 hospitals that submitted maternity information to U.S. News this 12 months, 297, or lower than half, earned a high-performing score.
- To obtain a high-performing score, a hospital needed to rating considerably higher than common throughout eight high quality measures and have acceptable charges of cesarean sections, new child problems and episiotomies.
- To enhance upon the methodology used for final 12 months’s inaugural version of Best Hospitals for Maternity Care, the 2022-2023 assessments have 4 new measures, together with the charges of vaginal births after cesarean and of episiotomies.
This distinction comes on the heels of UAB’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology program being ranked No. 5 within the nation – one of many highest rankings ever for a UAB Medicine specialty – within the 2022 U.S. News & World Report survey, which evaluated obstetrics and gynecology applications at 233 U.S. hospitals.
This story initially appeared on the UAB News web site.
