Where to Give Birth in Rhode Island (2026): Hospitals Compared with CMS Data
Rhode Island has 5 hospitals in this comparison that provide labor and delivery care, spread across 5 cities. This page compares those hospitals on CMS’s Birthing-Friendly designation and their overall hospital star rating. Five hospitals were excluded because CMS’s current data marks them as not providing inpatient labor and delivery care.
5 hospitals on Rhode Island’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 Rhode Island that provides labor & delivery care
| Hospital | Location | CMS Overall Rating | Birthing-Friendly | Maternal safety bundle adopted | Patient experience (HCAHPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newport Hospital | Newport, Newport County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 76% would definitely recommend |
| South County Hospital Inc | Wakefield, Washington County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 81% would definitely recommend |
| Women & Infants Hospital Of Rhode Island | Providence, Providence County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 71% would definitely recommend |
| Kent County Memorial Hospital | Warwick, Kent County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 63% would definitely recommend |
| Landmark Medical Center | Woonsocket, Providence County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 60% 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 just for Rhode Island, 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 Rhode Island.
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.
