Hospital Ratings Avoiding C-Sections

Delivering a baby by C-section when that is not medically necessary poses additional health risks to the mother and the baby. Many hospitals in the U.S. do more C-sections than they should. Our hospital Ratings can help people compare hospitals in their community based on C-section rates. Higher-rated hospitals do fewer C-sections. Lower-rated hospitals do more of them.

We have Ratings for avoiding C-sections for over 1,500 hospitals in 22 states. The rates were calculated using hospital billing records from those states; some of them already make this data public. Our Ratings are the largest, single source of comparative C-section data for individual hospitals in the country.

The Ratings are based on the C-section rates for mothers who anticipate a low-risk delivery – that is, women who haven’t had a C-section before, don’t deliver prematurely, and are pregnant with a single baby who is properly positioned. The Ratings include all moms, not just first- time moms. The data the Ratings are based on does not include information on factors that may increase the risk of a C-section, such as heart problems in the mother or fetus, pregnancy-related high blood pressure, obesity, or other chronic diseases.

C-section rates among the hospitals we looked at ranged from a low of 4 percent to a high of 57 percent. The average C-section rate was 17.6 percent, which would earn hospitals our second lowest Rating. Read our article on unnecessary C-sections (go to www.consumerreports.org/ cro/c-sections0514.htm) and our technical report on how we rate hospitals (go to www.consumerreports.org/howweratehospitals).

Hospitals in the chart below are listed alphabetically by Rating.

ILLINOIS Hospital Name City Rating Holy Cross Hospital Chicago 5 Jersey Community Hospital Jerseyville 5 Roseland Community Hospital Chicago 5 Saint Anthony Hospital Chicago 5 St. Francis Hospital Litchfield 5 Galesburg Cottage Hospital Galesburg 4 Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center Chicago 4 Presence United Samaritans Medical Center Danville 4 Provident Hospital of Cook County Chicago 4 St. Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center Chicago 4 St. Mary's Hospital Streator 4 West Suburban Medical Center Oak Park 4 Westlake Hospital Melrose Park 4 Adventist Hinsdale Hospital Hinsdale 3 Advocate Sherman Hospital Elgin 3 Advocate Trinity Hospital Chicago 3 Alton Memorial Hospital Alton 3 Blessing Hospital Quincy 3 Centegra Hospital - McHenry Mchenry 3 Elmhurst Memorial Hospital Elmhurst 3 Franciscan St. James Hospital and Health Centers Olympia Fields 3 Greenville Regional Hospital Greenville 3

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ILLINOIS Hospital Name City Rating Hammond-Henry Hospital Geneseo 3 Illinois Valley Community Hospital Peru 3 Ingalls Memorial Hospital Harvey 3 Memorial Medical Center Springfield 3 Mercy Hospital and Medical Center Chicago 3 NorthShore University Health System Evanston Hospital Evanston 3 Norwegian American Hospital Chicago 3 Pekin Hospital Pekin 3 Proctor Hospital Peoria 3 Saint Anthony's Health Center Alton 3 Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center Mattoon 3 Silver Cross Hospital New Lenox 3 St. Elizabeth's Hospital Belleville 3 St. Joseph's Hospital Breese 3 St. Mary's Hospital Decatur 3 Valley West Hospital Sandwich 3 Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital Lincoln 2 Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital Bolingbrook 2 Adventist GlenOaks Hospital Glendale Heights 2 Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital La Grange 2 Advocate BroMenn Medical Center Normal 2 Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn 2 Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville 2 Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove 2 Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital Barrington 2 Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Chicago 2 Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Park Ridge 2 Advocate South Suburban Hospital Hazel Crest 2 Anderson Hospital Maryville 2 CGH Medical Center Sterling 2 Carle Foundation Hospital Urbana 2 Centegra Hospital - Woodstock Woodstock 2 Central DuPage Hospital Winfield 2 Edward Hospital Naperville 2 Good Samaritan Regional Health Center Mount Vernon 2 Gottlieb Memorial Hospital Melrose Park 2 Heartland Regional Medical Center Marion 2

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ILLINOIS Hospital Name City Rating John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County Chicago 2 Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital Dixon 2 Kishwaukee Hospital Dekalb 2 Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers Evergreen Park 2 Loyola University Medical Center Maywood 2 Memorial Hospital Belleville 2 Memorial Hospital Carthage 2 Memorial Hospital of Carbondale Carbondale 2 MetroSouth Medical Center Blue Island 2 Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers Morris 2 Mount Sinai Hospital Chicago 2 Northwest Community Hospital Arlington Heights 2 Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest 2 Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago 2 OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center Ottawa 2 OSF St. Joseph Medical Center Bloomington 2 OSF St. Mary Medical Center Galesburg 2 Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights 2 Passavant Area Hospital Jacksonville 2 Perry Memorial Hospital Princeton 2 Presence Covenant Medical Center Urbana 2 Presence Mercy Medical Center Aurora 2 Presence Resurrection Medical Center Chicago 2 Presence Saint Francis Hospital Evanston 2 Presence Saint Joseph Hospital Chicago 2 Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center Joliet 2 Presence Saints Mary & Elizabeth Medical Center Chicago 2 Presence St. Mary's Hospital Kankakee 2 Richland Memorial Hospital Olney 2 Riverside Medical Center Kankakee 2 Rockford Memorial Hospital Rockford 2 Rush-Copley Medical Center Aurora 2 St. Alexius Medical Center Hoffman Estates 2 St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital Effingham 2 St. John's Hospital Springfield 2 St. Margaret's Hospital Spring Valley 2 St. Mary's Hospital Centralia 2

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ILLINOIS Hospital Name City Rating Swedish Covenant Hospital Chicago 2 SwedishAmerican Hospital Rockford 2 Touchette Regional Hospitals Centreville 2 UnityHealth MacNeal Hospital Berwyn 2 UnityPoint Health - Methodist Peoria 2 University of Chicago Medical Center Chicago 2 University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System Chicago 2 Vista Medical Center East Waukegan 2 Alexian Brothers Medical Center Elk Grove Village 1 Crawford Memorial Hospital Robinson 1 Decatur Memorial Hospital Decatur 1 Delnor Hospital Geneva 1 Gateway Regional Medical Center Granite City 1 Genesis Medical Center, Illini Campus Silvis 1 Graham Hospital Canton 1 Iroquois Memorial Hospital and Resident Home Watseka 1 OSF Saint James - John W. Albrecht Medical Center Pontiac 1 Rush University Medical Center Chicago 1

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