Where to Give Birth in New Hampshire (2026): Hospitals Compared with CMS Data
New Hampshire has 20 hospitals in CMS’s Care Compare data that provide labor and delivery care, spread across 17 cities. This page compares those hospitals using CMS’s Birthing-Friendly designation and its overall hospital star rating. Six hospitals in New Hampshire were excluded from this page because CMS’s current data marks them as not providing inpatient labor and delivery care.
6 hospitals on New Hampshire’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 New Hampshire that provides labor & delivery care
| Hospital | Location | CMS Overall Rating | Birthing-Friendly | Maternal safety bundle adopted | Patient experience (HCAHPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital | Lebanon, Grafton County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | No | Not reported | 5/5 stars · 92% would definitely recommend |
| Catholic Medical Center | Manchester, Hillsborough County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 66% would definitely recommend |
| Cheshire Medical Center | Keene, Cheshire County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 66% would definitely recommend |
| Exeter Hospital Inc | Exeter, Rockingham County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 66% would definitely recommend |
| Huggins Hospital | Wolfeboro, Carroll County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | No | Not reported | 4/5 stars · 75% would definitely recommend |
| Memorial Hospital, The | North Conway, Carroll County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 79% would definitely recommend |
| St Joseph Hospital | Nashua, Hillsborough County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 70% would definitely recommend |
| Wentworth-Douglass Hospital | Dover, Strafford County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 81% would definitely recommend |
| Concord Hospital | Concord, Merrimack County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 72% would definitely recommend |
| Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital | Lebanon, Grafton County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 79% would definitely recommend |
| Portsmouth Regional Hospital | Portsmouth, Rockingham County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 70% would definitely recommend |
| Speare Memorial Hospital | Plymouth, Grafton County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 76% would definitely recommend |
| Valley Regional Hospital | Claremont, Sullivan County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | No | Not reported | Not reported · 68% would definitely recommend |
| Androscoggin Valley Hospital | Berlin, Coos County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | No | Not reported | 4/5 stars · 68% would definitely recommend |
| Elliot Hospital | Manchester, Hillsborough County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 78% would definitely recommend |
| Monadnock Community Hospital | Peterborough, Hillsborough County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 68% would definitely recommend |
| Southern Nh Medical Center | Nashua, Hillsborough County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 71% would definitely recommend |
| Littleton Regional Healthcare | Littleton, Grafton County | ★☆☆☆☆ 1/5 | No | Not reported | 5/5 stars · 80% would definitely recommend |
| Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital | Colebrook, Coos County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 83% would definitely recommend |
| Weeks Medical Center | Lancaster, Coos County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 78% 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 specific to New Hampshire, 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 New Hampshire.
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.
