Montefiore Nyack Hospital has been named a 2026 High Performing Hospital for Maternity Care by U.S. News & World Report, per the hospital's announcement of the 2026 Best Hospitals maternity ratings. It is the third consecutive year the North Midland Avenue hospital has earned the designation, after taking the same honor in the 2024 and 2025 ratings.
The rating is not a popularity contest. U.S. News says its High Performing hospitals met strict standards on measures that include cesarean section rates in lower-risk pregnancies, severe unexpected newborn complications, episiotomy rates, and whether births are attended by clinicians who specialize in maternity care. Only a minority of rated hospitals clear that bar, and U.S. News describes the High Performing label as the top award a hospital can earn in its maternity ratings.
What this means for residents is straightforward: families in Rockland who are choosing where to deliver now have a third-party data point close to home, instead of looking down the county line at Westchester hospitals. Montefiore Nyack is the only hospital in the county with a maternity unit under this designation, which matters in a county where most residents previously faced a drive for specialized obstetric care.
For context, the honor lands during a busy stretch for the Nyack hospital, which has been adding outpatient services under the Montefiore Health System umbrella, including a new urology center in the village. Hospital leaders say the maternity designation reflects the work of the labor and delivery teams, and the hospital's birth numbers have held steady even as birthing units have closed at smaller hospitals across the Hudson Valley in recent years.
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The timing matters locally too. Rockland's population growth has outpaced much of the Hudson Valley over the past two decades, and birth counts at the Nyack hospital make it the county's busiest maternity service. A rating that rewards lower intervention rates in routine births is the kind of metric obstetricians say families should actually compare, more than marketing claims, because it is drawn from outcomes data rather than reputation.
Expecting parents can check the designation themselves on the U.S. News hospital profile, and the hospital runs tours of its maternity floor for registered families. If you are comparing options, the rating methodology page lists exactly which measures were scored, so you can match them against what matters for your own pregnancy.