Where to Give Birth in New York, New York (2026): Hospitals Compared with CMS Data
New York, New York has 8 hospitals in CMS’s current data that provide labor and delivery care. This page compares those hospitals on CMS’s Birthing-Friendly designation and overall hospital star rating. Three hospitals were excluded from this list because CMS’s current data marks them as not providing inpatient labor and delivery care.
3 hospitals on New York, New York’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 New York, New York that provide labor & delivery care
| Hospital | Location | CMS Overall Rating | Birthing-Friendly | Maternal safety bundle adopted | Patient experience (HCAHPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lenox Hill Hospital | New York, New York County | ★★★★★ 5/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 68% would definitely recommend |
| New York-Presbyterian Hospital | New York, New York County | ★★★★★ 5/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 72% would definitely recommend |
| Nyu Langone Hospitals | New York, New York County | ★★★★★ 5/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 75% would definitely recommend |
| Mount Sinai Hospital | New York, New York County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 69% would definitely recommend |
| Mount Sinai West | New York, New York County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 62% would definitely recommend |
| Metropolitan Hospital Center | New York, New York County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 64% would definitely recommend |
| Bellevue Hospital Center | New York, New York County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 65% would definitely recommend |
| Harlem Hospital Center | New York, New York County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 1/5 stars · 49% 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 New York, 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 New York.
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.
