Woodhull Medical & Mental Health Center

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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	1,935	100.0%	n/a*
Low forceps delivery	1	0.1%	0.5%**
Outlet forceps delivery	0	0.0%	0.0%**
Mid forceps delivery	0	0.0%	0.0%
Internal fetal monitoring	515	26.6%	15.0%
External fetal monitoring	1,872	96.7%	85.0%
Induction	410	21.2%	14.9%**
Augmented labor	477	24.7%	24.2%
Analgesia	234	12.1%	11.5%
Attended by midwife	1,344	69.5%	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^‡	1,464	75.7%	64.0%
Vaginal birth after prior cesarean^†	71	25.2%	7.1%
Breech births delivered vaginally^‡	4	0.2%	0.4%
Episiotomy	53	3.6%	16.1%
General anesthesia	16	1.1%	0.5%
Spinal anesthesia	4	0.3%	3.3%
Epidural anesthesia	590	40.3%	52.5%
Local/other anesthesia	273	18.6%	13.3%
Paracervical anesthesia	1	0.1%	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^‡	471	24.3%	32.1%
Primary cesarean^‡	260	13.4%	20.4%
Repeat cesarean^‡	211	10.9%	14.6%
General anesthesia	39	8.3%	3.0%
Spinal anesthesia	271	57.5%	55.9%
Epidural/local anesthesia	150	31.8%	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