Where to Give Birth in Alaska (2026): Hospitals Compared with CMS Data
Alaska has 17 hospitals that provide labor and delivery care, spread across 15 cities. This page compares those hospitals using CMS’s Birthing-Friendly designation and overall hospital star rating. Alaska’s CMS data also includes 4 hospitals that were excluded from this comparison because CMS’s current data marks them as not providing inpatient labor and delivery care.
4 hospitals on Alaska’s general acute-care/critical-access hospital list were excluded because CMS’s current data marks them as not providing inpatient labor & delivery care.
Every hospital in Alaska that provides labor & delivery care
| Hospital | Location | CMS Overall Rating | Birthing-Friendly | Maternal safety bundle adopted | Patient experience (HCAHPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yukon Kuskokwim Delta Reg Hospital | Bethel, Bethel County | ★★★★★ 5/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 64% would definitely recommend |
| Bartlett Regional Hospital | Juneau, Juneau County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 5/5 stars · 81% would definitely recommend |
| Peacehealth Ketchikan Medical Center | Ketchikan, Ketchikan Gateway County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 78% would definitely recommend |
| Mat-Su Regional Medical Center | Palmer, Matanuska-Susitna County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | No | No | 3/5 stars · 66% would definitely recommend |
| Providence Alaska Medical Center | Anchorage, Anchorage County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 79% would definitely recommend |
| Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium | Sitka, Sitka Borough County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Alaska Native Medical Center | Anchorage, Anchorage County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 61% would definitely recommend |
| Central Peninsula General Hospital | Soldotna, Kenai Peninsula County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 77% would definitely recommend |
| Fairbanks Memorial Hospital | Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 68% would definitely recommend |
| Alaska Regional Hospital | Anchorage, Anchorage County | ★☆☆☆☆ 1/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 69% would definitely recommend |
| Bristol Bay Dba Kanakanak Hospital | Dillingham, Dillingham County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Maniilaq Health Center | Kotzebue, Northwest Artic Borough County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Norton Sound Regional Hospital | Nome, Nome County | Not rated | Yes | Yes | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Providence Valdez Medical Center | Valdez, Valdez-Cordova County | Not rated | Yes | Yes | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital | Barrow, North Slope Borouh County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Searhc Wrangell Medical Center & Ltc | Wrangell, Wrangell City And Borough County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| South Peninsula Hospital | Homer, Kenai Peninsula County | Not rated | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 80% 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 Alaska, 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 Alaska.
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.
