Where to Give Birth in New Mexico (2026): Hospitals Compared with CMS Data
Data as of 2026-08-13 (CMS hospital data); 09/30/2025 (patient-experience survey end date). Hospital quality & Birthing-Friendly data: CMS Care Compare, released 2026-08-13. Patient-experience data (HCAHPS): CMS, survey period 10/01/2024–09/30/2025. This page does not update automatically — see “How we built this page” below for the refresh cadence.
Medical disclaimer. This page compares publicly reported federal data. It is not medical advice and is not a recommendation of any hospital, provider, or birth plan. CMS does not currently publish a hospital-level cesarean-delivery rate or severe-maternal-complication rate, so this page cannot show either — no other source on this page fills that gap. Talk to your OB, midwife, or family doctor about which hospital is right for a specific pregnancy, especially a high-risk one, and ask directly about the hospital’s neonatal/NICU level of care.
New Mexico has 32 hospitals that provide labor and delivery care, spread across 25 cities. This page compares those hospitals on two measures from CMS’s Care Compare data: whether a hospital holds CMS’s Birthing-Friendly designation and its overall hospital star rating. Seven hospitals in New Mexico were excluded from this comparison because CMS’s current data marks them as not providing inpatient labor and delivery care.
32
Hospitals providing labor & delivery
21
Birthing-Friendly designated (65.6%)
19
Have a published CMS star rating (59.4%)
13
Not rated by CMS
7 hospitals on New Mexico’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 Mexico that provides labor & delivery care
| Hospital | Location | CMS Overall Rating | Birthing-Friendly | Maternal safety bundle adopted | Patient experience (HCAHPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center | Santa Fe, Santa Fe County | ★★★★★ 5/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 75% would definitely recommend |
| Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center | Santa Fe, Santa Fe County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 71% would definitely recommend |
| Lovelace Women’S Hospital | Albuquerque, Bernalillo County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 65% would definitely recommend |
| Christus Southern New Mexico | Alamogordo, Otero County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 64% would definitely recommend |
| Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital | Hobbs, Lea County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | No | No | 4/5 stars · 72% would definitely recommend |
| Northern Navajo Medical Center | Shiprock, San Juan County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | No | No | 3/5 stars · 56% would definitely recommend |
| Gallup Indian Medical Center | Gallup, Mckinley County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 50% would definitely recommend |
| Gila Regional Medical Center | Silver City, Grant County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 62% would definitely recommend |
| Lincoln County Medical Center | Ruidoso, Lincoln County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 79% would definitely recommend |
| Lovelace Regional Hospital – Roswell | Roswell, Chaves County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 67% would definitely recommend |
| Memorial Medical Center | Las Cruces, Dona Ana County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 63% would definitely recommend |
| Mountain View Regional Medical Center | Las Cruces, Dona Ana County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 53% would definitely recommend |
| Plains Regional Medical Center | Clovis, Curry County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 55% would definitely recommend |
| Presbyterian Hospital | Albuquerque, Bernalillo County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 69% would definitely recommend |
| San Juan Regional Medical Center Inc | Farmington, San Juan County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 53% would definitely recommend |
| Unm Hospital | Albuquerque, Bernalillo County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 66% would definitely recommend |
| Carlsbad Medical Center | Carlsbad, Eddy County | ★☆☆☆☆ 1/5 | Yes | Yes | 1/5 stars · 42% would definitely recommend |
| Eastern New Mexico Medical Center | Roswell, Chaves County | ★☆☆☆☆ 1/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 53% would definitely recommend |
| Holy Cross Hospital A Div Of Taos Health Systems | Taos, Taos County | ★☆☆☆☆ 1/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 62% would definitely recommend |
| Alta Vista Regional Hospital | Las Vegas, San Miguel County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Artesia General Hospital | Artesia, Eddy County | Not rated | No | No | Not reported · 82% would definitely recommend |
| Cibola General Hospital | Grants, Cibola County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 73% would definitely recommend |
| Los Alamos Medical Center | Los Alamos, Los Alamos County | Not rated | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 69% would definitely recommend |
| Mimbres Valley Medical Center | Deming, Luna County | Not rated | No | No | 3/5 stars · 70% would definitely recommend |
| Miners’ Colfax Medical Center | Raton, Colfax County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 63% would definitely recommend |
| Presbyterian Espanola Hospital | Espanola, Rio Arriba County | Not rated | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 80% would definitely recommend |
| Rehoboth Mckinley Christian Health Care Services | Gallup, Mckinley County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Santa Fe Phs Indian Hospital | Santa Fe, Santa Fe County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Sierra Vista Hospital | T Or C, Sierra County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Socorro General Hospital | Socorro, Socorro County | Not rated | Yes | Yes | Not reported · 81% would definitely recommend |
| Union County General Hospital | Clayton, Union County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 70% would definitely recommend |
| Zuni Comprehensive Community Health Center | Zuni, Mckinley County | Not rated | Yes | Yes | Not reported · Not reported 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 New Mexico, 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 Mexico.
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).”
Sources
- 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.
