Mount Auburn Hospital Named to U.S. News & World Report 2025 Best Hospitals for Maternity Care

Top Performing Hospital for Labor and Delivery

Cambridge, MA – U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, has named Mount Auburn Hospital as a 2025 High Performing Hospital for Maternity Care. This is the highest award a hospital can earn as part of U.S. News’ Best Hospitals for Maternity Care annual study.

U.S. News began evaluating maternity care hospitals in 2021, rating hospitals that provide labor and delivery services and submit detailed data to the publication for analysis. Best Hospitals for Maternity Care assist expectant parents, in consultation with their prenatal care team, in making informed decisions about where to receive maternity services that best meets their family’s needs.

Mount Auburn Hospital earned a High Performing designation in recognition of maternity care as measured by factors such as severe unexpected newborn complication rates, birthing-friendly practices and transparency on racial/ethnic disparities, and low cesarean rates and vaginal birth after cesarean, among other measures.

“We are deeply committed to providing exceptional maternity care in the community,” said Ed Huang, MD, president, Mount Auburn Hospital. “The residents of Cambridge and the surrounding communities know that Mount Auburn Hospital is a great place to have a baby, and we are proud to be recognized as one of the best maternity hospitals in the country.”

“Being named a Best Maternity Hospital in the country is a tremendous honor and speaks to the compassionate and exceptional care that our team provides to parents and their newborn babies,” said Brett Young, MD, chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology. “Every labor and delivery is different and our team of dedicated clinicians, from doctors and nurses to midwives, has the knowledge and expertise to provide the best experience possible to new parents and their babies.”

U.S. News evaluated 817 hospitals from across the United States. Only half of all hospitals evaluated for U.S. News’ 2025 ratings edition have been recognized as Best Hospitals for Maternity Care.

“The hospitals recognized by U.S. News as Best Hospitals for Maternity Care showcase exceptional care for expectant parents,” said Jennifer Winston, PhD, health data scientist at U.S. News. “These hospitals demonstrate significantly lower C-section rates and severe unexpected newborn complications compared to hospitals not recognized by U.S. News.”

The U.S. News Best Hospitals for Maternity Care methodology is based entirely on objective measures of quality, such as C-section rates in lower-risk pregnancies, severe unexpected newborn complication rates, exclusive breast milk feeding rates, birthing-friendly practices and reporting on racial/ethnic disparities, among other measures.

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About Mount Auburn Hospital

Mount Auburn Hospital was founded in 1886. A teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, its mission is to provide clinically excellent care with compassion and to teach students of medicine and the health professions.

Mount Auburn Hospital is a part of Beth Israel Lahey Health, a healthcare system that brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, community and specialty hospitals, more than 4,700 physicians and 39,000 employees in a shared mission to expand access to great care and advance the science and practice of medicine through groundbreaking research and education.