Where to Give Birth in Connecticut (2026): Hospitals Compared with CMS Data
Connecticut has 23 hospitals that provide labor and delivery care, spread across 20 cities. This page compares those hospitals using CMS’s Birthing-Friendly designation and overall hospital star rating. Connecticut’s CMS data also includes 3 hospitals that were excluded from this comparison because CMS’s current data marks them as not providing inpatient labor and delivery care.
3 hospitals on Connecticut’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 Connecticut that provides labor & delivery care
| Hospital | Location | CMS Overall Rating | Birthing-Friendly | Maternal safety bundle adopted | Patient experience (HCAHPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwich Hospital Association – | Greenwich, Fairfield County | ★★★★★ 5/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 76% would definitely recommend |
| Sharon Hospital | Sharon, Litchfield County | ★★★★★ 5/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 81% would definitely recommend |
| Stamford Hospital | Stamford, Fairfield County | ★★★★★ 5/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 76% would definitely recommend |
| Yale-New Haven Hospital | New Haven, New Haven County | ★★★★★ 5/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 69% would definitely recommend |
| Bridgeport Hospital | Bridgeport, Fairfield County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 64% would definitely recommend |
| Danbury Hospital | Danbury, Fairfield County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 71% would definitely recommend |
| Griffin Hospital | Derby, New Haven County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 76% would definitely recommend |
| Hartford Hospital | Hartford, Hartford County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 68% would definitely recommend |
| Manchester Memorial Hospital | Manchester, Hartford County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 58% would definitely recommend |
| Midstate Medical Center | Meriden, New Haven County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 76% would definitely recommend |
| St Vincent’S Medical Center | Bridgeport, Fairfield County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 71% would definitely recommend |
| William W Backus Hospital | Norwich, New London County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 63% would definitely recommend |
| Charlotte Hungerford Hospital | Torrington, Litchfield County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 63% would definitely recommend |
| John Dempsey Hospital Of The University Of Connect | Farmington, Hartford County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 80% would definitely recommend |
| Lawrence & Memorial Hospital | New London, New London County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 65% would definitely recommend |
| Middlesex Hospital | Middletown, Middlesex County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 75% would definitely recommend |
| Norwalk Hospital | Norwalk, Fairfield County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 68% would definitely recommend |
| Saint Mary’S Hospital | Waterbury, New Haven County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 60% would definitely recommend |
| Bristol Hospital | Bristol, Hartford County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 62% would definitely recommend |
| Day Kimball Hospital | Putnam, Windham County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 61% would definitely recommend |
| St Francis Hospital & Medical Center | Hartford, Hartford County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 63% would definitely recommend |
| The Hospital Of Central Connecticut | New Britain, Hartford County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 64% would definitely recommend |
| Waterbury Hospital | Waterbury, New Haven County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 55% 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 Connecticut, 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 Connecticut.
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.
