Women & Infants Hospital Named One of America’s Best Maternity Hospitals by Newsweek

Release Date: 6/15/22

(Providence, RI) – Newsweek and data firm Statista have recently announced their ranking of America’s Best Maternity Hospitals 2022, and has awarded Women & Infants Hospital with a Four Ribbon Performance. The issue, according to Newsweek, ‘helps people pick the best place to achieve the happy outcome of a healthy child and a healthy mother’.

The list names the top 350 leading hospitals for maternity care in the U.S., divided into two performance categories: five ribbon hospitals (161 institutions) and four ribbon hospitals (189 institutions). The evaluation is based on three data sources: a nationwide online survey in which hospital managers and maternity healthcare professionals (e.g., neonatal care providers and OB/GYNs) were asked to recommend leading maternity hospitals; medical key performance indicator data relevant to maternity care (e.g., a hospital's rate of cesarean births); and patient satisfaction data (e.g., how patients rated a hospital's medical staff for responsiveness and communication).

“Women and Infants is proud to be recognized for our continued commitment to high quality care across our region. We remain committed to be the best place for women to receive their care and the safest place for them and their newborns,” said Shannon Sullivan, president and COO, Women & Infants Hospital.

Women & Infants Hospital, a designated Baby-Friendly® USA hospital, is the ninth largest stand-along obstetrical service in the country and the largest in New England, delivering approximately 8,500 babies annually.

The hospital is one of the nation’s leading specialty hospitals for women and newborns, and is a major teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for obstetrics, gynecology, and newborn pediatrics, as well as a number of specialized programs in women’s medicine.

The online issue may be found here: America's Best Maternity Hospitals 2022 (newsweek.com)

About Women & Infants Hospital

Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, is one of the nation’s leading specialty hospitals for women and newborns. A major teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics, as well as a number of specialized programs in women’s medicine, Women & Infants is the 9th largest stand-alone obstetrical service in the country and the largest in New England with approximately 8,500 deliveries per year. A Designated Baby-Friendly® USA hospital, U.S. News & World Report 2014-15 Best Children’s Hospital in Neonatology and a 2014 Leapfrog Top Hospital, in 2009 Women & Infants opened what was at the time the country’s largest, single-family room neonatal intensive care unit.

Women & Infants and Brown offer fellowship programs in gynecologic oncology, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, neonatal-perinatal medicine, pediatric and perinatal pathology, gynecologic pathology and cytopathology, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. It is home to the nation’s first mother-baby perinatal psychiatric partial hospital, as well as the nation’s only fellowship program in obstetric medicine.

Women & Infants has been designated as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiography; a Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecology; a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence by the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and a Neonatal Resource Services Center of Excellence. It is one of the largest and most prestigious research facilities in high risk and normal obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics in the nation, and is a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Gynecologic Oncology Group and the Pelvic Floor Disorders Network.

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