United Memorial Medical Center North Street Campus

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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 2008. For more information please see the Maternity Information Brochure.

All births

Intervention	This Facility		Statewide
Intervention	#	%	%
Total births	521	100.0%	n/a*
Low/outlet forceps delivery	0	0.0%	0.4%**
Mid forceps delivery	0	0.0%	0.0%
Internal fetal monitoring	2	0.4%	8.9%
External fetal monitoring	515	98.8%	89.7%
Induction by artificial rupture of membranes	34	6.5%	12.0%**
Induction by medicine	30	5.8%	19.5%**
Augmented labor	114	21.9%	24.3%
Analgesia	15	3.0%	34.5%
Attended by midwife	181	34.7%	10.8%

% based on totals excluding cases with missing information.
^*Data not currently available
^**Average for NY State excluding NYC

Vaginal births

Intervention	This Facility		Statewide
Intervention	#	%	%
Vaginal births^‡	350	67.2%	63.3%
Vaginal birth after prior cesarean^†	13	14.0%	7.3%
Breech births delivered vaginally^‡	0	0.0%	0.2%
Episiotomy	133	38.0%	20.2%
General anesthesia	0	0.0%	0.4%
Spinal anesthesia	2	0.6%	3.7%
Epidural anesthesia	195	55.7%	54.0%
Local/other anesthesia	36	10.3%	15.6%
Paracervical anesthesia	0	0.0%	0.1%
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^‡	171	32.8%	36.4%
Primary cesarean^‡	91	17.5%	21.2%
Repeat cesarean^‡	80	15.4%	15.3%
General anesthesia	11	6.5%	4.7%
Spinal anesthesia	116	68.6%	73.2%
Epidural/local anesthesia	44	26.0%	21.0%

% 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