ST. LOUIS - It’s official: Nobody does maternity care better than Mercy in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
Newsweek’s just-released annual list of America’s Best Maternity Hospitals includes six Mercy hospitals. Mercy has more birth centers on the list than any other health care system in the states it serves – including Mercy Hospital St. Louis and Mercy Hospital Jefferson locally.
“We’re proud to set the standard for maternity care in every community we serve,” said Dr. Todd Glass, Mercy St. Louis OB/GYN, department chair and Mercy-wide obstetrics physician leader. “There’s no greater honor as a health care professional than being a part of the miracle of life when parents welcome a child into our world. We make it our mission to be the best of the best.”
Maternity Care Data
Newsweek used three data points to compile its list of top maternity hospitals this year: hospital quality metrics, patient experience and reputation score.
The data is pulled from public sources and recommendations from leading health care professionals in maternity care, including neonatal and perinatal physicians, nurses and midwives.
After crunching the numbers, four Mercy hospitals in Missouri made the list (Mercy Jefferson, Mercy Southeast, Mercy Springfield and Mercy St. Louis) along with the Mercy birthplaces at Mercy Northwest Arkansas and Mercy Oklahoma City.
Maternity Care With Mercy
Mercy Hospital St. Louis features an obstetrics emergency department (OB/ED) available 24/7 to care for pregnant or postpartum women facing emergency situations such as abdominal pain or cramping, heavy bleeding, preterm labor and more.
The hospital was also recently honored by U.S. News and World Report on its list of Best Hospitals for Maternity Care.
Mercy hospitals offer personalized, family-centered care. In addition to delivering healthy babies, Mercy continues to offer:
- Private labor and delivery rooms, as well as mother-baby bonding rooms, with some hospitals providing all labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum (LDRP) care in the same room.
- Delivery and comfort options, including epidural anesthesia with some offering nitrous oxide.
- Breastfeeding and lactation support, including breastfeeding classes.
- Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) designed to care for babies facing challenges at Mercy St. Louis, with a Ronald McDonald Family Room serving families.
- Downloadable guides focused on pregnancy, baby checklists, birth plans, parenting education and more.
For moms looking for a low-intervention birth, the Mercy Birthing Center in St. Louis is the region’s only hospital-based, midwifery birthing center.
Visit the Birthplace page on mercy.net to find a tour of a Mercy birthplace near you.
