Healthcare Insights
Top 10 hospitals by labor and delivery births
If you were born in the last 100 years, chances are that you were born in a hospital. Dozens, if not hundreds, of babies are born in almost every hospital every day. But some labor and delivery wings are much busier than others.
Using the Definitive Healthcare HospitalView product, we created a list of the top 10 hospitals with the most labor and delivery births in 2024. The results in the following analysis are sourced from the Medicare Cost Report and proprietary research and aggregated from the most recent 12-month interval tracked in our database. It’s important to note that our analysis represents estimated births as reported in the Medicare Cost Report and doesn’t represent actual births.
| Rank | Definitive ID | Hospital name | City | State | % of estimated births | Explore dataset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1000 | Northside Hospital Atlanta | Atlanta | GA | 0.42% | Explore |
| 2 | 7270 | Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies | Orlando | FL | 0.38% | Explore |
| 3 | 1135 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital | Chicago | IL | 0.32% | Explore |
| 4 | 3995 | The Womans Hospital of Texas | Houston | TX | 0.30% | Explore |
| 5 | 3931 | Parkland Health (FKA Parkland Health and Hospital System) | Dallas | TX | 0.29% | Explore |
| 6 | 2843 | Tisch Hospital | New York | NY | 0.28% | Explore |
| 7 | 4783 | Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns | San Diego | CA | 0.25% | Explore |
| 8 | 744 | Christiana Hospital | Newark | DE | 0.24% | Explore |
| 9 | 2431 | Mercy Hospital St Louis | Saint Louis | MO | 0.23% | Explore |
| 10 | 4271 | Inova Fairfax Hospital (AKA Inova Fairfax Medical Campus) | Falls Church | VA | 0.23% | Explore |
Fig. 1 Data is from the Definitive Healthcare HospitalView product and sourced from hospital Medicare Cost Report and proprietary research. Accessed June 2025.
Which hospitals have the most labor and delivery births?
The hospital with the highest number of estimated births on our list was Northside Hospital Atlanta in Georgia. The hospital accounted for 0.42% of hospital births tracked in 2024.
The hospital with the second most labor and delivery births was Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies in Florida. This facility accounted for 0.38% of analyzed delivery births in the U.S.
The third-place hospital is Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, representing 0.32% of U.S. deliveries analyzed.
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Healthcare Insights are developed with data from the Definitive Healthcare platform. Want even more insights? Read our analyses on the top children’s hospitals by net patient revenue and the top OB/GYN procedures, or our ranking of the top hospitals by labor and delivery beds.
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