Brookdale Hospital Medical Center

Total C-section measures represent the percentage of all live births born via C-section. This includes situations in which a C-section might have been safely avoided as well as instances in which it offered benefits to mother or child.

The incidence of episiotomy measure is the rate at which women who deliver vaginally have episiotomies.

The exclusive breast milk feeding measure tells you the percentage of newborns that were fed only breast milk during their time in the hospital after birth.

The epidural pain relief measure the percentage of woman who received epidural pain relief while having a vaginal birth.

A hospital’s VBAC measure shows how many of the women who have had one or more C-sections in the past go on to give birth vaginally at that hospital.

The labor induction measure used on this site indicates how often women giving birth at a particular hospital have labor that is induced using medicine.

This measure tells you the percentage of births that were attended by a licensed midwife at a particular hospital. If the number is 0, the hospital most likely does not have midwives on staff. Having licensed nurse-midwives available is something preferred by some moms-to-be.