{"id":106089,"date":"2025-12-09T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seattleschild.com\/?p=106089"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:10:24","slug":"best-maternity-hospitals-puget-sound-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleschild.com\/best-maternity-hospitals-puget-sound-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Puget Sound hospitals named 2026 &#8216;Best Hospitals for Maternity Care&#8217;\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seattle and surrounding Puget Sound communities have made the cut when it comes to maternity care\u2014eight local hospitals were given a \u201cHigh Performing\u201d badge in<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/best-hospitals\/hospital-ratings\/maternity?src=usn_pr\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s 2026 \u201cBest Hospitals for Maternity Care\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ratings.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overlake Medical Center and Clinics, Bellevue<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Providence Regional Medical Center Everett<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Providence St. Peter Hospital, Olympia\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Anne Hospital, Burien\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Francis Hospital, Federal Way\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Joseph Medical Center, Tacoma\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Michael Medical Center, Silverdale\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swedish Issaquah, Issaquah<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106091 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seattleschild.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hospitals-maternity-care-access-year-2026-e1764956869463.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"186\" \/>The results place Seattle among the 20 metropolitan areas with the greatest number of Best Hospitals for Maternity Care for uncomplicated pregnancy in the U.S. The annual list aims to provide new parents with transparent information to help them make informed decisions about where to seek maternity care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cChoosing where to welcome a new baby is one of the most personal health care decisions a family makes. U.S. News\u2019 Best Hospitals for Maternity Care [compares] key outcomes and support services at maternity hospitals in their area,\u201d said Jennifer Winston, Ph.D., health data scientist at U.S. News.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three eastern Washington hospitals were recognized for providing maternity care in areas that could become care deserts if they were to close down: St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale, Providence Centralia Hospital in Centralia, and Samaritan Healthcare in Moses Lake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.S. News is world-renowned for its hospital rankings and ratings, and high performing hospitals wear the acknowlegement with pride. The organization began evaluating maternity care hospitals in 2021, and this year, 901 hospitals submitted maternity data for evaluation, a record participation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The organization stresses that its<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/media\/best-hospitals\/2025_best_hospitals_maternity_care_methodology\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">unbiased analysis and ratings methodology<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is based on objective measures of quality, such as C-section rates in lower-risk pregnancies, exclusive breast milk feeding rates, hospital services to underserved communities, and other data points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Measures are weighted to create a composite score.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NTSV C-section rates and VBAC rates: 35% weight<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Severe UNC rates: 25% weight<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commitment to exclusive breast milk feeding: 15% weight<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transparency on racial\/ethnic disparities: 10% weight<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Birthing-friendly practice: 10% weight<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Episiotomy rates: 5% weight<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about U.S. News hospital rankings and ratings o<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/best-hospitals\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">n the media company\u2019s website.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. News &#038; World Report&#8217;s annual list aims to help parents decide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1182,"featured_media":106095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,1420,53,112,25,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baby","category-baby-2","category-health","category-news","category-parenting","category-pregnancy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>8 Seattle-area hospitals earn top 2026 maternity ratings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"8 Puget Sound hospitals earned \u201cHigh Performing\u201d status in U.S. News\u2019 2026 Best Hospitals for Maternity Care. 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