Where to Give Birth in North Dakota (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.
North Dakota has 36 hospitals that provide labor and delivery care, spread across 34 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. Eight hospitals in North Dakota were excluded from this comparison because CMS’s current data marks them as not providing inpatient labor and delivery care.
36
Hospitals providing labor & delivery
11
Birthing-Friendly designated (30.6%)
14
Have a published CMS star rating (38.9%)
22
Not rated by CMS
8 hospitals on North Dakota’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 North Dakota that provides labor & delivery care
| Hospital | Location | CMS Overall Rating | Birthing-Friendly | Maternal safety bundle adopted | Patient experience (HCAHPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chi St Alexius Health | Bismarck, Burleigh County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 69% would definitely recommend |
| Jamestown Regional Medical Center | Jamestown, Stutsman County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 80% would definitely recommend |
| Sanford Medical Center Bismarck | Bismarck, Burleigh County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 65% would definitely recommend |
| Sanford Medical Center Fargo | Fargo, Cass County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 72% would definitely recommend |
| West River Regional Medical Center | Hettinger, Adams County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 74% would definitely recommend |
| Altru Hospital | Grand Forks, Grand Forks County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 58% would definitely recommend |
| Chi St Alexius Health Williston | Williston, Williams County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 49% would definitely recommend |
| Essentia Health | Fargo, Cass County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 75% would definitely recommend |
| P H S Indian Hosp At Belcourt-Quentin N Burdick | Belcourt, Rolette County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | No | No | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Trinity Hospitals | Minot, Ward County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 63% would definitely recommend |
| Chi St Alexius Health Devils Lake | Devils Lake, Ramsey County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | Not reported · 72% would definitely recommend |
| Chi St Alexius Health Dickinson | Dickinson, Stark County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 55% would definitely recommend |
| Heart Of America Medical Center | Rugby, Pierce County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Smp Health St Aloisius | Harvey, Wells County | ★☆☆☆☆ 1/5 | No | Not reported | Not reported · 76% would definitely recommend |
| Ashley Medical Center | Ashley, Mcintosh County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Cavalier County Memorial Hospital Association | Langdon, Cavalier County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 82% would definitely recommend |
| Cooperstown Medical Center | Cooperstown, Griggs County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 77% would definitely recommend |
| First Care Health Center | Park River, Walsh County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 92% would definitely recommend |
| Jacobson Memorial Hospital Care Center | Elgin, Grant County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Mckenzie County Healthcare Systems Inc | Watford City, Mckenzie County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 69% would definitely recommend |
| Mountrail County Medical Center Inc | Stanley, Mountrail County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Nelson County Health System | Mcville, Nelson County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Northwood Deaconess Health Center | Northwood, Grand Forks County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Pembina County Memorial Hospital | Cavalier, Pembina County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 88% would definitely recommend |
| Presentation Medical Center | Rolla, Rolette County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Sakakawea Medical Center – Cah | Hazen, Mercer County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 88% would definitely recommend |
| Sanford Hillsboro | Hillsboro, Traill County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Sanford Mayville | Mayville, Traill County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| South Central Health | Wishek, Mcintosh County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 88% would definitely recommend |
| Southwest Healthcare Services | Bowman, Bowman County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| St Andrew’S Hospital | Bottineau, Bottineau County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 63% would definitely recommend |
| St Luke’S Hospital | Crosby, Divide County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 96% would definitely recommend |
| Standing Rock Service Unit | Fort Yates,, Sioux County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Tioga Medical Center | Tioga, Williams County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · Not reported would definitely recommend |
| Towner County Medical Center | Cando, Towner County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 97% would definitely recommend |
| Unity Medical Center | Grafton, Walsh County | Not rated | No | Not reported | Not reported · 90% 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 North Dakota, 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 North Dakota.
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.
