St Barnabas Hospital

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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	1,152	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	2	0.2%	15.0%
External fetal monitoring	8	0.7%	85.0%
Induction	5	0.4%	14.9%**
Augmented labor	2	0.0%	24.2%
Analgesia	51	4.4%	11.5%
Attended by midwife	219	19.0%	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^‡	914	79.3%	64.0%
Vaginal birth after prior cesarean^†	67	36.2%	7.1%
Breech births delivered vaginally^‡	6	0.5%	0.4%
Episiotomy	97	10.6%	16.1%
General anesthesia	0	0.0%	0.5%
Spinal anesthesia	25	2.7%	3.3%
Epidural anesthesia	448	49.0%	52.5%
Local/other anesthesia	97	10.6%	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^‡	238	20.7%	32.1%
Primary cesarean^‡	120	10.4%	20.4%
Repeat cesarean^‡	118	10.2%	14.6%
General anesthesia	2	0.8%	3.0%
Spinal anesthesia	146	61.3%	55.9%
Epidural/local anesthesia	77	32.4%	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