When it comes to birthing babies, two Georgia hospitals are among the nation’s best, according to U.S. News & World Report.
The media company recently published its findings for 2025′s “Best Hospitals for Maternity Care” for uncomplicated pregnancies. The Peach State’s Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center and Emory Decatur Hospital made the list.
Each year, the news outlet ranks hospitals across a wide spectrum of services to determine the nation’s best health care providers. This year, 414 hospitals were recognized as high performing for their maternity and perinatal care.
“Relatively little information is readily available to the public about which facilities across the country are best at caring for expectant parents following an uncomplicated pregnancy,” according to the survey’s methodology report. “By evaluating hospitals using core maternity and perinatal care data, including data primarily self-reported by hospitals, and by publishing this information publicly on the profile page for each hospital on usnews.com, we aim to enhance the transparency of the maternity service provision for uncomplicated pregnancies.”
This is not the first time these two Georgia’s hospitals have been recognized by U.S. News as high performing. Atrium, in Rome, earned the distinction for its heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure, COPD and pneumonia care. Emory Decatur was ranked as high performing for its leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, heart attack, heart failure and stroke care.
To identify the nation’s best hospitals for maternity care, the news outlet conducted surveys across 817 eligible facilities. They were given composite scores based on seven factors: C-section delivery rates, unexpected newborn complication rates, vaginal birth after cesarean delivery rates, commitment to exclusive human milk feeding, episiotomy rates, reporting on racial/ethnic disparities and birthing friendliness of each hospital.
“U.S. News made a number of changes in 2024 to the Maternity Services Survey used for the 2025 recognitions, with a goal of reducing the data collection burden on hospitals,” according to the methodology report. “We considered input from hospital leaders, obstetrical quality experts and other stakeholders as well as decisions made by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, The Joint Commission, and other quality-measurement organizations.”
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