Where to Give Birth in Chicago, Illinois (2026): Hospitals Compared with CMS Data
Chicago, Illinois has 15 hospitals that provide labor and delivery care, based on CMS Care Compare data. This page compares those hospitals on CMS’s Birthing-Friendly designation and their overall hospital star rating. Eleven additional hospitals in Chicago were left off this page because CMS’s current data marks them as not providing inpatient labor and delivery care.
11 hospitals on Chicago, Illinois’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 Chicago, Illinois that provide labor & delivery care
| Hospital | Location | CMS Overall Rating | Birthing-Friendly | Maternal safety bundle adopted | Patient experience (HCAHPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern Memorial Hospital | Chicago, Cook County | ★★★★★ 5/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 81% would definitely recommend |
| Rush University Medical Center | Chicago, Cook County | ★★★★★ 5/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 77% would definitely recommend |
| Presence Saint Joseph Hospital – Chicago | Chicago, Cook County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 69% would definitely recommend |
| The University Of Chicago Medical Center | Chicago, Cook County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 73% would definitely recommend |
| University Of Illinois Hospital And Clinics | Chicago, Cook County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 65% would definitely recommend |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago, Cook County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 70% would definitely recommend |
| Amita Health Resurrection Medical Center | Chicago, Cook County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 66% would definitely recommend |
| Presence Saints Mary And Elizabeth Medical Center | Chicago, Cook County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 69% would definitely recommend |
| Swedish Hospital | Chicago, Cook County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 59% would definitely recommend |
| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago, Cook County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 57% would definitely recommend |
| John H Stroger Jr Hospital | Chicago, Cook County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 68% would definitely recommend |
| Saint Anthony Hospital | Chicago, Cook County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 70% would definitely recommend |
| Humboldt Park Health | Chicago, Cook County | ★☆☆☆☆ 1/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 54% would definitely recommend |
| Mt Sinai Hospital Medical Center | Chicago, Cook County | ★☆☆☆☆ 1/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 48% would definitely recommend |
| Roseland Community Hospital | Chicago, Cook County | ★☆☆☆☆ 1/5 | Yes | Yes | 1/5 stars · 42% would definitely recommend |
What CMS does not tell you
CMS has not published a hospital-level cesarean-delivery rate or a severe-maternal-complication rate in its current data release, and that is true nationwide, not something specific to Chicago, so this page cannot show either number for any hospital listed here. 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 Chicago.
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.
