Where to Give Birth in Fresno, California (2026): Hospitals Compared with CMS Data
Fresno, California has 3 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. One additional hospital in Fresno was excluded from this page because CMS’s current data marks it as not providing inpatient labor and delivery care.
1 hospital on Fresno, California’s general acute-care/critical-access hospital list was excluded because CMS’s current data marks it as not providing inpatient labor & delivery care.
Hospitals in Fresno, California that provide labor & delivery care
| Hospital | Location | CMS Overall Rating | Birthing-Friendly | Maternal safety bundle adopted | Patient experience (HCAHPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital – Fresno | Fresno, Fresno County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 74% would definitely recommend |
| Saint Agnes Medical Center | Fresno, Fresno County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 76% would definitely recommend |
| Community Regional Medical Center | Fresno, Fresno County | ★☆☆☆☆ 1/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 70% 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 Fresno, 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 Fresno.
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.
