"How One Hospital Brought Its C-Section Rate Down Fast"

A white newborn stares earnestly over their blonde, white mama's shoulder.
Baby is looking just below the camera, while mama looks off to the left.

Faced with the possible loss of an important insurer, one California hospital rapidly reduced excessive cesarean section rates in part by sharing each physician’s rate with everyone in the obstetrics department.

There's a conversation occurring all over the world about what constitutes a medically necessary cesarean delivery. There's a consensus that's only growing stronger around the hypothesis that the c-section rate in the US (and many other industrialized nations) is too high. What is still emerging is how to improve best practices in hospitals and birth centers in order to get that rate down. Here is the story of one hospital in California figuring it out:

"How One Hospital Brought Its C-Section Rate Down Fast"

What other best practices have you heard about for safely improving rates of vaginal delivery?

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