Where to Give Birth in Los Angeles, California (2026): Hospitals Compared with CMS Data
Los Angeles, California has 11 hospitals that provide labor and delivery care, according to CMS Care Compare data. This page compares hospitals in Los Angeles on CMS’s Birthing-Friendly designation and overall hospital star rating. Four hospitals were excluded because CMS’s current data marks them as not providing inpatient labor and delivery care.
4 hospitals on Los Angeles, California’s general acute-care/critical-access hospital list were excluded because CMS’s current data marks them as not providing inpatient labor & delivery care.
Hospitals in Los Angeles, California that provide labor & delivery care
| Hospital | Location | CMS Overall Rating | Birthing-Friendly | Maternal safety bundle adopted | Patient experience (HCAHPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | Los Angeles, Los Angeles County | ★★★★★ 5/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 78% would definitely recommend |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital – Los Angeles | Los Angeles, Los Angeles County | ★★★★★ 5/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 74% would definitely recommend |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital | Los Angeles, Los Angeles County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 68% would definitely recommend |
| Ronald Reagan Ucla Medical Center | Los Angeles, Los Angeles County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 79% would definitely recommend |
| Adventist Health White Memorial | Los Angeles, Los Angeles County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 64% would definitely recommend |
| Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center | Los Angeles, Los Angeles County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 60% would definitely recommend |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital – West La | Los Angeles, Los Angeles County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 73% would definitely recommend |
| California Hospital Medical Center La | Los Angeles, Los Angeles County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 64% would definitely recommend |
| Los Angeles General Medical Center | Los Angeles, Los Angeles County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 71% would definitely recommend |
| Pih Health Good Samaritan Hospital | Los Angeles, Los Angeles County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 68% would definitely recommend |
| East Los Angeles Doctors Hospital | Los Angeles, Los Angeles County | ★☆☆☆☆ 1/5 | Yes | Yes | 1/5 stars · 50% would definitely recommend |
What CMS does not tell you
CMS has not published a hospital-level cesarean-delivery rate or severe-maternal-complication rate in its current data release, and that is true nationwide, not specific to Los Angeles, California, so this page cannot show either number for any hospital listed. A state-level NICU or perinatal level-of-care listing is also left off this page because it could not be verified against a current, authoritative source for Los Angeles, California.
How we built this page
This list was built by filtering CMS Hospital Type to Acute Care Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals, then excluding any hospital whose CMS Maternal Morbidity Structural Measure (SM_7) is marked “Not Applicable (does not provide inpatient labor/delivery care).”
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital General Information and Maternal Health – Hospital datasets, data.cms.gov. File released 2026-08-13. Maternal-health measurement period: calendar year 2024.
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) patient-experience survey, data.cms.gov. Measurement period 10/01/2024–09/30/2025.
