Vermont Business Magazine U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, has named Rutland Regional Medical Center as a 2025 High Performing hospital for Maternity Care. This is the highest award a hospital can earn as part of U.S. News’ Best Hospitals for Maternity Care annual study. Rutland Regional was the only hospital in Vermont to attain this recognition. To see RRMC’s detailed ratings, visit RRMC Best Performing Maternity Care.
U.S. News began evaluating maternity care hospitals in 2021, rating hospitals that provide labor and delivery services and submitting detailed data to the publication for analysis. Best Hospitals for Maternity Care assist expectant parents, in consultation with their prenatal care team, in making informed decisions about where to receive maternity services that best meets their family’s needs.
The U.S. News Best Hospitals for Maternity Care methodology is based entirely on objective measures of quality, such as C-section rates in lower-risk pregnancies, severe unexpected newborn complication rates, exclusive breast milk feeding rates, birthing-friendly practices and reporting on racial/ethnic disparities, among other measures.
Based on excellent performance in each of these areas, Rutland Regional Medical Center earned a High Performing designation in recognition of maternity care.
“We are very honored to be recognized for the high level of care we provide to our patients and their babies,” said Sarah Decker, MD, Medical Director of Rutland Women’s Healthcare at Rutland Regional Medical Center. “The collaboration within the Women’s and Children’s Unit and the Birthing Center is exceptional, and we are always working together to optimize outcomes for our patients and their babies."
U.S. News evaluated 817 hospitals from across the United States. Fewer than half of all hospitals evaluated for U.S. News’ 2025 ratings edition have been recognized as Best Hospitals for Maternity Care. Rutland Regional Medical Center is the only hospital in Vermont to receive this high performing designation.
“The hospitals recognized by U.S. News as Best Hospitals for Maternity Care showcase exceptional care for expectant parents,” said Jennifer Winston, Ph.D., health data scientist at U.S. News. “These hospitals demonstrate significantly lower C-section rates and severe unexpected newborn complications compared to hospitals not recognized by U.S. News.”
Additionally, Rutland Regional was one of only 118 hospitals nationwide to be named a 2025 Maternity Care Access Hospital, which is a hospital that offers essential maternity services to underserved communities. This recognizes hospitals serving communities that would be in danger of becoming a maternity care desert.
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About Women’s & Children’s Unit and Birthing Center: The Women’s & Children’s Unit and Birthing Center provides expert care for laboring patients and their newborns. Private rooms are provided for labor and delivery as well as for postpartum care. Rutland Regional Medical Center was recently recognized by the National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program for reaching the “Gold Safe Sleep Champion” designation for their commitment to best practices and education on infant safe sleep. The hospital was also named to Newsweek’s 2021 list of Best Maternity Care Hospitals recognizing facilities that have provided exceptional care to mothers, newborns and their families, as verified by the 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Survey.
About Rutland Women’s Healthcare: Rutland Women’s Healthcare provides obstetric needs such as prenatal visits, ultrasounds, fetal testing, lab tests and more. Rutland Women’s Healthcare is supported by a team of medical providers including OB/Gyn physicians, advanced practice providers including a certified nurse midwife and a women’s health nurse practitioner, as well as specially trained nurses. They provide a full array of gynecological services both medical and surgical, as well as preventive care. The providers at Rutland Women’s Healthcare work with each patient to create a plan of care designed to meet their reproductive care needs of patients at every stage of life, from the teenage years to menopause and beyond.
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Source: 12.10.2024. Rutland, VT – Rutland Regional Medical Center
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