Nearly 650 hospitals providing delivery services were evaluated by U.S. News & World Report as part of an analysis recognized by the National Institutes of Health.
Patty Machelor Janet Easley has two healthy sons now but, before they arrived, she wasn't sure having a baby was going to be possible.
TMC was recently named one of the country's best labor and delivery hospitals for the second year in a row. The medical center, at 5301 E. Grant Road, has one of the state's highest delivery rates, and currently handles the most births in Southern Arizona, with roughly 5,500 babies born during 2022 and 5,120 in 2021.
Births returned to pre-pandemic trend levels in March 2021, indicating that conceptions returned to pre-pandemic trend levels in June 2020. The obstetrics and gynecology rating for the study is based on several categories, including survival rates, volume of high-risk patients, patients' experiences, nurse staffing, and advanced clinical technologies. Other considerations include C-section rates in lower-risk pregnancies, newborn complication rates, exclusive breast milk feeding rates, and early elective delivery rates.
Another feature Schoenhage said she loves is their midwifery center, which provides"the best of two worlds.” That second pregnancy went along smoothly until a few weeks before he was born, Easley said. He’d been moving a lot, and then that stopped.