Montefiore Medical Center - North Division

You are currently viewing maternity services. Switch to general services.

Maternity Information

New York State's Maternity Information Law requires each hospital to provide the following information about its childbirth practices and procedures. This information can help you to better understand what you can expect, learn more about your childbirth choices, and plan for your baby's birth. Data shown are for 2007. For more information please see the Maternity Information Brochure.

All births

Intervention	This Facility		Statewide
Intervention	#	%	%
Total births	1,619	100.0%	n/a*
Low forceps delivery	0	0.0%	0.5%**
Outlet forceps delivery	0	0.0%	0.0%**
Mid forceps delivery	0	0.0%	0.0%
Internal fetal monitoring	73	4.5%	15.0%
External fetal monitoring	253	15.6%	85.0%
Induction	8	0.5%	14.9%**
Augmented labor	8	0.5%	24.2%
Analgesia	7	0.4%	11.5%
Attended by midwife	85	5.3%	8.0%

% based on totals excluding cases with missing information.
^*Data not currently available
^**Average for New York City

Vaginal births

Intervention	This Facility		Statewide
Intervention	#	%	%
Vaginal births^‡	1,131	69.9%	64.0%
Vaginal birth after prior cesarean^†	8	6.2%	7.1%
Breech births delivered vaginally^‡	1	0.1%	0.4%
Episiotomy	79	7.0%	16.1%
General anesthesia	8	0.7%	0.5%
Spinal anesthesia	35	3.1%	3.3%
Epidural anesthesia	380	33.6%	52.5%
Local/other anesthesia	147	13.0%	13.3%
Paracervical anesthesia	0	0.0%	0.0%
Pudendal anesthesia	0	0.0%	0.1%

% based on total vaginal births excluding cases with missing information.
^‡% is percentage of total births
^†% is percentage of prior cesareans

Cesarean births

Intervention	This Facility		Statewide
Intervention	#	%	%
Cesarean births^‡	488	30.1%	32.1%
Primary cesarean^‡	367	22.7%	20.4%
Repeat cesarean^‡	121	7.5%	14.6%
General anesthesia	18	3.7%	3.0%
Spinal anesthesia	321	65.8%	55.9%
Epidural/local anesthesia	149	30.5%	21.5%

% based on total cesarean births excluding cases with missing information.
^‡% is percentage of total births

Related Information

Maternity Information Brochure

New York State

Department of Health