Indiana Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2008

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By Jill—Unnecesarean

	# of C/S	Total Births	C/S Rate
Scott Memorial Hospital	98	182	53.8%
Perry County Memorial Hospital	42	83	50.6%
Greene County General Hospital	45	99	45.5%
Clarian Health (IU)	357	814	43.9%
Bedford Regional Med Ctr	52	119	43.7%
Adams Memorial Hospital	94	219	42.9%
West Central Community Hospital	31	74	41.9%
Parkview LaGrange Hospital	127	305	41.6%
Pulaski Memorial Hospital	59	143	41.3%
Sullivan County Community Hospital	46	114	40.4%
Washington County Memorial Hospital	31	77	40.3%
St. Mary’s Med Ctr (Evansville)	537	1340	40.1%
Dukes Memorial Hospital	127	318	39.9%
Henry County Hospital	144	362	39.8%
St. Vincent Carmel Hospital	441	1124	39.2%
Community Hospital (Munster)	833	2126	39.2%
Margaret Mary Community Hospital	150	390	38.5%
Parkview Noble Hospital	119	310	38.4%
The Women’s Hospital	1196	3137	38.1%
Memorial Hospital (Logansport)	198	526	37.6%
The Methodist Hospitals, Inc., Southlake Campus	226	608	37.2%
Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center	353	960	36.8%
Community Hospital North	1111	3042	36.5%
St. Anthony Memorial	268	736	36.4%
St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital	1385	3829	36.2%
Decatur County Memorial Hospital	102	283	36.0%
St. Margaret Mercy Healthcare Ctrs, North Campus	312	873	35.7%
Terre Haute Regional Hospital	239	677	35.3%
Starke Memorial Hospital	21	60	35.0%
Lutheran Hospital of Indiana	539	1558	34.6%
Memorial Hospital of South Bend	1068	3103	34.4%
Floyd Memorial Hospital & Health Services	368	1090	33.8%
Bluffton Regional Med Ctr	83	248	33.5%
St. Clare Med Ctr	107	320	33.4%
Community Hospital East	256	774	33.1%
Parkview Huntington Hospital	124	375	33.1%
Union Hospital, Inc.	516	1562	33.0%
Woodlawn Hospital	67	204	32.8%
Clarian North Med Ctr	730	2239	32.6%
Community Hospital South	306	942	32.5%
Hendricks Regional Health	301	932	32.3%
Fayette Regional Health System	81	253	32.0%
Marion General Hospital	231	745	31.0%
Major Hospital	111	358	31.0%
Howard Regional Health System	211	686	30.8%
Clarian West Med Ctr	381	1248	30.5%
Putnam County Hospital	57	190	30.0%
Porter - Valparaiso Hospital Campus	369	1235	29.9%
St. Francis Hospital - Mooresville Campus	143	479	29.9%
Columbus Regional Hospital	230	775	29.7%
St. Joseph Regional Med Ctr - South Bend Campus	452	1532	29.5%
Dupont Hospital	656	2259	29.0%
Kosciusko Community Hospital	249	865	28.8%
Clark Memorial Hospital	427	1486	28.7%
Jay County Hospital	31	108	28.7%
Parkview Hospital	684	2389	28.6%
Wishard Health Services	819	2869	28.5%
Harrison County Hospital	51	179	28.5%
Reid Hospital & Health Care Services, Inc.	220	774	28.4%
St. John’s Health System	118	416	28.4%
Schneck Med Ctr	207	733	28.2%
St. Francis Hospital - Indianapolis Campus	849	3007	28.2%
Morgan Hospital & Med Ctr	54	192	28.1%
Lafayette Home Hospital, Inc.	790	2814	28.1%
Community Hosp. of Anderson & Madison County	276	985	28.0%
Elkhart General Healthcare System	390	1394	28.0%
Bloomington Hospital	546	1967	27.8%
Parkview Whitley Hospital	64	231	27.7%
The King’s Daughters’ Hospital and Health Services	121	438	27.6%
The Methodist Hospitals, Inc., Northlake Campus	233	849	27.4%
Clarian Arnett Hospital	53	195	27.2%
St. Joseph Regional Med Ctr - Plymouth Campus	112	419	26.7%
Clarian Health (Methodist)	791	2992	26.4%
White County Memorial Hospital	52	197	26.4%
La Porte Regional Health System, Inc.	177	680	26.0%
Dearborn County Hospital	143	557	25.7%
Bloomington Hospital of Orange County, Inc.	33	129	25.6%
St. Joseph Hospital (Fort Wayne)	146	571	25.6%
Community Hospital of Bremen, Inc.	25	99	25.3%
Riverview Hospital	232	925	25.1%
Hancock Regional Hospital	131	530	24.7%
Dunn Memorial Hospital	52	212	24.5%
Daviess Community Hospital	123	507	24.3%
St. Vincent Randolph Hospital	41	171	24.0%
Witham Health Services	71	300	23.7%
Goshen General Hospital	330	1411	23.4%
St. Joseph Hospital (Kokomo)	155	687	22.6%
St. Vincent Frankfort Hospital	53	237	22.4%
St. Mary Med Ctr (Hobart)	205	917	22.4%
Good Samaritan Hospital	113	511	22.1%
Jasper County Hospital	31	142	21.8%
St. Anthony Med Ctr of Crown Point	322	1492	21.6%
Cameron Memorial Community Hospital, Inc.	45	215	20.9%
Johnson Memorial Hospital	118	583	20.2%
Ball Memorial Hospital, Inc.	328	1670	19.6%
St. Catherine Hospital, Inc.	134	702	19.1%
DeKalb Memorial Hospital, Inc.	73	465	15.7%
St. Joseph Regional Med Ctr - Mishawaka	20	254	7.9%
Deaconess Hospital, Inc.	<3	<3	N/A
	26371	85505	30.8%

SOURCE: Indiana State Department of Health website 

Thank you to DONA Certified Birth Doula and Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator Andie Gunter.

Comments

[Lauren]

Jill and Andie - I did not see Parkview North Hospital on the list. I had unnecesareans there in 2007 and 2009. Thank you for the list though, I think I'll be making the trip with Rachel to Mishawaka if I ever need to hospital birth again!

[Amanda]

I noticed that one hospital (St. Joseph in Mishawaka) has a rate in the single digits. I wonder why that is. That's a huge discrepancy. What are they doing differently??

[Mary]

Kindred is a rehab/long term acute care hospital. They've not done a c-section ever. And, Clarian Arnett hasn't been open long enough to have a statistically valid rate.

[Andie]

Mary, that should have said St. Vincent Carmel Hospital instead of Kindred. Their Hospital ID #'s are one number different and I put the wrong one. Thanks for pointing that out. Jill, can you change that?

[Andie]

Mishawaka has a lot of Amish in the area, who would be less likely to accept interventions. I wonder if that's one reason their rate is so low?

[Andie]

Lauren, Parkview North didn't have any hospital discharge data listed for 2008. I'm assuming that means they didn't submit it to the state. I went back and looked at the 2007 files and they didn't have any data listed for that year either.

[Jill]

Andie, I made the change.

[Jill]

The rates here were calculated by dividing total cesareans by total births based on hospital discharge data. That's really all these numbers tell you. The data hasn't been teased or scrubbed.

[Ata]

Kindred Hospital is a hospital and does do deliveries Amanda. It is true that they have long-term rehab centers, but they also have hospitals here in Indianapolis.

[Amanda]

Ata, I wasn't the one that posted about Kindred, that was Mary, but if they have hospitals in Indianapolis, that's news to me and a lot of other people from the Indianapolis area who are wondering the same thing.

[Anna]

I only see one [Lutheran Hospital of Indiana] of the five hospitals, that offer maternity services, in Allen County listed here. Where is the data for the other four?

[Anna]

Correction, 2 hospitals.

[Jill]

Anna, which ones are they? Did they recently add maternity services?

[Andie]

Anna- The 5 I'm aware of are Lutheran, St. Joseph at Ft. Wayne, Parkview, Parkview North, and Dupont. All the rates for those are listed except Parkview North, which I'm guessing didn't report any info to the state. I went back to the state's files and didn't find any info for that hospital for 2008 or 2007. That was mentioned in one of the earlier comments. That was all the hospitals listed for Allen County in this brochure put out by the Indiana Perniatal Network- http://www.indianaperinatal.org/downloads/locfinal061610.pdf
Are those the hospitals you're thinking of?