Where to Give Birth in San Francisco, California (2026): Hospitals Compared with CMS Data
San Francisco, California has 4 hospitals that provide labor and delivery care, according to CMS Care Compare data. This page compares them on CMS’s Birthing-Friendly designation and overall hospital star rating. Six additional hospitals in San Francisco were excluded because CMS’s current data marks them as not providing inpatient labor and delivery care.
6 hospitals on San Francisco, California’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 San Francisco, California that provide labor & delivery care
| Hospital | Location | CMS Overall Rating | Birthing-Friendly | Maternal safety bundle adopted | Patient experience (HCAHPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital – San Francisco | San Francisco, San Francisco County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 72% would definitely recommend |
| Ucsf Medical Center | San Francisco, San Francisco County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 81% would definitely recommend |
| California Pacific Medical Center- Van Ness Campus | San Francisco, San Francisco County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 78% would definitely recommend |
| Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hosp & Trauma Ctr | San Francisco, San Francisco County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 72% 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 San Francisco, 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 San Francisco.
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.
