Connecticut Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2007

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	# Births	# of C/S	C/S Rate	VBAC	% Epis.
Bridgeport Hospital	2592	1012	39.0%	3.3%	7.4%
Bristol Hospital	693	201	29.0%	7.1%	3.5%
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital	459	171	37.3%	0.0%	11.5%
Danbury Hospital	2446	736	30.1%	9.1%	2.5%
Day Kimball Hospital	577	149	25.8%	0.0%	11.3%
Greenwich Hospital	2188	814	37.2%	7.2%	12.3%
Griffin Hospital	761	247	32.5%	9.4%	10.5%
Hartford Hospital	4071	1554	38.2%	4.3%	4.1%
Hospital of St. Raphael	1440	463	32.2%	2.0%	5.1%
John Dempsey Hospital (UCONN)	850	370	43.5%	5.5%	1.3%
Johnson Memorial Hospital	300	87	29.0%	7.1%	12.0%
Lawrence & Memorial Hospital	1739	637	36.6%	14.3%	6.9%
Manchester Memorial Hospital	1078	296	27.5%	2.3%	5.1%
Middlesex Memorial Hospital	1176	441	37.5%	15.1%	7.7%
Midstate Medical Center	1082	333	30.8%	1.3%	17.3%
Milford Hospital	557	203	36.4%	2.5%	7.9%
New Milford Hospital	294	104	35.4%	6.9%	21.8%
Norwalk Hospital	1616	519	32.1%	7.0%	10.1%
Rockville General Hospital	441	117	26.5%	4.8%	15.0%
Saint Francis Hospital	2895	904	31.2%	14.6%	8.6%
Saint Mary’s Hospital	1298	386	29.7%	5.3%	5.9%
Saint Vincent Medical Center	1211	539	44.5%	5.3%	7.9%
Sharon Hospital	236	75	31.8%	7.4%	12.7%
Stamford Hospital	2638	1002	38.0%	0.0%	19.6%
The Hospital of Central CT	1975	611	30.9%	7.0%	4.9%
Waterbury Hospital	1311	472	36.0%	10.6%	11.8%
William W. Backus Hospital	1046	318	30.4%	9.2%	5.4%
Windham Community Memorial	439	129	29.4%	4.0%	1.1%
Yale New Haven Hospital	4557	1591	34.9%	10.0%	4.9%
	41966	14481	34.6%	6.3%	7.9%

SOURCE: Connecticut Department of Public Health, HISR Section, HCQSAR Unit, August 2009.

Hospital	Singleton vertex C/S	All C/S	%
Bridgeport Hospital	957	1,019	94%
Bristol Hospital	181	200	91%
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital	159	169	94%
Danbury Hospital	656	710	92%
Day Kimball Hospital	140	143	98%
Greenwich Hospital	768	822	93%
Griffin Hospital	210	236	89%
Hartford Hospital	1,431	1,540	93%
Hospital of Central Connecticut	534	580	92%
Hospital of Saint Raphael	456	482	95%
John Dempsey Hospital	300	369	81%
Johnson Memorial Hospital	81	83	98%
Lawrence and Memorial Hospital	649	684	95%
Manchester Memorial Hospital	295	304	97%
Middlesex Memorial Hospital	390	417	94%
MidState Medical Center	310	326	95%
Milford Hospital	190	199	95%
New Milford Hospital	107	108	99%
Norwalk Hospital	494	521	95%
Rockville General Hospital	118	119	99%
Saint Francis Hospital	853	918	93%
Saint Mary’s Hospital	365	386	95%
Saint Vincent’s Medical Center	544	556	98%
Sharon Hospital	78	85	92%
Stamford Hospital	868	979	89%
Waterbury Hospital	470	484	97%
William W. Backus Hospital	284	300	95%
Windham Community Memorial Hospital	124	135	92%
Yale-New Haven Hospital	1,419	1,587	89%
Total	13,431	14,461	93%

 

Comments

[Anne]

Wow! The singleton vertex c/sec compared to the total c/sec population is very very interesting. Makes one wonder why so many... obviously breech and twins are not driving this!

[larissa]

Does anyone know - when a percent episiotomy is reported, is it percent of vaginal birth or percent total birth? Because if it's a percent of total births, that means the real number is almost double (since you're not really eligible for an episiotomy if they're cutting higher up), and much harder to compare.

And if anyone is interested - I did a quick analysis and there is absolutely no correlation between C/S rate and epi rate.

[Jill]

Larissa,

CT was calculated by the DPH. but epis rate is # epis/ # vaginal births.

[Kathy]

I believe one of my SILs had an episiotomy even though she ultimately had a C/s -- the doctor attempted high forceps, and most if not all of the times, it's necessary to cut an episiotomy first.

[Danielle]

Thanks for sharing this Jill!
It took us almost 6 months to get these numbers from the DPH, and then had to calculate all the percentages ourselves!

[Jill]

Thank YOU, Danielle. You do good work.

[Lauren]

Hi. I'm not familiar with all this I suppose. where do the VBAC numbers come from. if they are percents, my first guess would be that those are the % of all births that ended in a vaginal delivery, but that doesn't seem to make any sense.

I've never had a kid myself, but I am fascinated by birth, and when the time is right for me, I want to be informed.

[Jill]

Lauren, VBAC is vaginal birth after cesarean. The VBAC rate is typically calculated by dividing numbers of VBACs and numbers of women with a prior cesarean section.

Welcome! Glad to have you here.