Mount Sinai South Nassau Rated “High Performing” in Maternity Care for Fourth Consecutive Year

Mount Sinai South Nassau Rated "High Performing" in Maternity Care for Fourth Consecutive Year

Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai Morningside also earn Designation from U.S. News & World Report, Reflecting Excellence in Maternity Care Across Health System

Mount Sinai South Nassau has received the highest possible rating for maternity care at "High Performing" for 2025-2026 from U.S. News & World Report, for the fourth consecutive year. Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai Morningside, both in Manhattan, also earned the "Best Hospitals for Maternity Care - High Performing" designation this year, underscoring the consistency and quality of maternity care delivered across the Mount Sinai Health System.

Mount Sinai South Nassau is the only hospital on the South Shore of Long Island to be awarded this prestigious rating, which indicates better patient outcomes for mothers and their newborns. More than 1,867 babies have been born at Mount Sinai South Nassau thus far in 2025.

"The U.S. News ranking is a recognition of the labor and delivery teamwork that takes place every day at Mount Sinai South Nassau. Our physicians, nurses, residents, and support staff are committed to providing the best outcomes for mothers and their newborns," said Alan Garely, MD, Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mount Sinai South Nassau.

Mount Sinai West's recognition reflects comprehensive, team-driven improvements that have strengthened labor support, reduced unnecessary interventions, and enhanced clinical consistency.

"It's a great honor to be recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a 'High Performing' Maternity Hospital, reflecting the exceptional care our teams provide every day across the Mount Sinai Health System," said Joanne Stone, MD, MS, Chair of the Raquel and Jaime Gilinski Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at the Icahn School of Medicine and the Mount Sinai Health System. "This distinction recognizes our physicians, midwives, nurses, and staff who are deeply committed to supporting patients and families with clinical excellence, compassion, and respect at every stage of pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum. Most importantly, it affirms our promise to deliver safe, personalized, and comprehensive maternal care to every patient who entrusts us during this pivotal life-changing moment."

Key initiatives at Mount Sinai West improving care are labor-support education and birth training, such as peanut ball positioning to encourage labor progress and comfort, and a physiologic technique to facilitate fetal rotation and smoother labor. Other efforts include targeted physician education to reduce unnecessary C-sections, including individualized reviews of C-section rates for first-time and low-risk patients, and a systemwide course on diagnosing labor progress and clinical decision-making to support safe vaginal births.

The U.S. News "High Performing" rating is based on a series of objective measures that indicate better outcomes for mothers and their babies, including reduced cesarean section delivery rates, no early elective deliveries, reduced unexpected newborn complications, increased rates of vaginal birth after C-section delivery, promotion of exclusive infant breastfeeding, low episiotomy rates a commitment to routine birth-friendly practices, transparency on racial/ethnic disparities, and World Health Organization "Baby Friendly" hospital designation.

"We are proud to earn the U.S. News 'High Performing' rating for the fourth consecutive year, but what drives us is the confidence and trust that mothers and their families place in us day in and day out," said Mount Sinai South Nassau's President, Adhi Sharma, MD. "We are the go-to hospital for maternity care on the South Shore of Nassau County, and that's a credit to our exceptional staff."

Nearly 900 hospitals across the country that provide labor and delivery services submitted detailed data to be considered for the ratings. Fewer than 51 percent obtained the "High Performing" rating.

About Mount Sinai South Nassau
The Long Island flagship hospital of the Mount Sinai Health System, Mount Sinai South Nassau is designated a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for outstanding nursing care. Mount Sinai South Nassau is one of the region's largest hospitals, with 455 beds, more than 900 physicians and 3,500 employees. Located in Oceanside, New York, the hospital is an acute-care, not-for-profit teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art care in cardiac, oncologic, orthopedic, bariatric, pain management, mental health, and emergency services and operates the only Trauma Center on the South Shore of Nassau County, along with Long Island's only free-standing Emergency Department in Long Beach.

In addition to its extensive outpatient specialty centers, Mount Sinai South Nassau provides emergency and elective angioplasty, and offers Novalis Tx™ and Gamma Knife® radiosurgery technologies. Mount Sinai South Nassau operates the only Trauma Center on the South Shore of Nassau County verified by the American College of Surgeons as well as Long Island's only free-standing, 9-1-1 receiving Emergency Department in Long Beach. Mount Sinai South Nassau also is a designated Stroke Center by the New York State Department of Health and Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons; is an accredited center of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Association and Quality Improvement Program; and an Infectious Diseases Society of America Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence.
For more information, go to www.mountsinai.org/southnassau.