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Interested in knowing your hospital's cesarean rate?

The Indiana State Department of Health publishes yearly hospital discharge data.  The reports include information on each hospital stay for all kinds of conditions.  Although the reports are made public, they are in no way user friendly for the average person.  I have gone through the data using Microsoft Access and calculated cesarean rates for each hospital in the state for 2010.  I have listed the cesarean rates in an Excel file here-

Indiana Hospital Cesarean Rates 2010

Some highlights:

• The cesarean rate for Indiana was 31.4%.  There were 81,380 births in Indiana in 2010.

• The hospital with the highest cesarean rate was Scott Memorial Hospital, with a rate of 57.8%.
• The hospital with the lowest cesarean rate was St. Elizabeth Medical Center with a rate of 14.3%.
• 5 hospitals had cesarean rates lower than 20%.
• 2 hospitals had rates higher than 50%.*

• Local hospitals-
• St. Mary's Medical Center's cesarean rate was 39.6%.
• The Women's Hospital's cesarean rate was 35.9%.
• Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes had a 25.5% cesarean rate.
• Memorial Hospital in Jasper had a 34.9% cesarean rate.
• Daviess Community Hospital in Washington had a 24.0% cesarean rate.
  

*I am not including information for hospitals that had less than 5 births.

Want to lower your chance of having a cesarean?  Read 10 Tips for Avoiding a First-Time Cesarean.