These statistics are alarming to me. The WHO (World Health Organization) recommends the C-section rate be less than 10%!!!! The U.S. cesearean rate is around 26%.
We are definitely doing something wrong here.

Here are the stats:

NYC Hospitals’ Cesearean Section Rates for 2000 and 2003

*from the New York Guide to a Healthy Birth
* At printing, the most recent data available from the New York
Department of Health was for births occuring in 2003.

manhattan 2000 2003
New York Downtown Hospital 11.1 % 14.2 %
Bellevue Hospital 18.4 % 20.9 %
Women’s Hospital 26.2 % 21.7 %
Harlem Hospital Center 23.0 % 22.0 %
Metropolitan Hospital 25.3 % 22.5 %
Beth Israel Hospital 24.0 % 23.4 %
St. Vincent’s Hospital 24.9 % 25.6 %
Roosevelt Hospital 28.7 % 25.9 %
Allen Pavilion 22.9 % 27.9 %
New York Univ. Medical Center 25.6 % 28.3 %
Mount Sinai Hospital 23.7 % 28.4 %
Lenox Hill Hospital 29.8 % 31.7 %
Presbyterian Hospital 28.3 % 34.8 %
New York Hospital 29.2 % 37.3 %

brooklyn 2000 2003
Maimonides Medical Center 14.9 % 19.1 %
St. Mary’s Hospital 18.8 % 20.4 %
Kings County Hospital 21.2 % 23.1 %
Interfaith Hospital 25.1 % 24.5 %
Lutheran Medical Center 24.6 % 25.6 %
Wyckoff Heights Hospital 24.2 % 25.7 %
Brookdale Hospital Medical Center 24.1 % 25.8 %
Coney Island Hospital 19.7 % 27.1 %
Victory Memorial Hospital 32.6 % 28.6 %
University Hospital of Brooklyn 26.4 % 29.2 %
Woodhull Hospital 24.2 % 29.5 %
Long Island College Hospital 31.1 % 29.5 %
Methodist Hospital 28.5 % 33.7 %
Brooklyn Hospital 29.6 % 34.8 %

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