Boston Medical Center
| Demographics | |
| City or Town | Boston |
| Region | Metro Boston |
| Main hospital telephone | 617-638-8000 |
| Website | www.bmc.org |
| Year of data | CY04 |
| Teaching or community hospital | Teaching |
| Nursery Level | Level III |
| Total number of deliveries | 2,271 |
| Rate (%) of Cesarean births | |
| - Total Cesareans | 25% |
| - First Cesarean | 17% |
| - Repeat Cesarean | 9% |
| Rate (%) of Vaginal Births After Cesarean | |
| - VBACs | 17% |
| - Successfully attempted VBACs | 69% |
| Rate (%) of anesthesia | |
| - Epidural anesthesia 1 | 43% |
| - Spinal anesthesia rate 1 | 12% |
| - General anesthesia rate 1 | 2% |
| Rate (%) fetal monitoring | |
| - External monitoring | 50% |
| - Internal continuous monitoring | 25% |
| - External and internal monitoring | 14% |
| Rate (%) labor and delivery procedures | |
| - Episiotomy | 5% |
| - Intravenous therapy | 98% |
| - Induced labor | 23% |
| - Augmented labor | 19% |
| - Forceps assisted delivery | 1% |
| - Vacuum assisted delivery | 5% |
| Average age 2 | |
| - Vaginal birth | 27 |
| - Cesarean birth | 29 |
| Length of stay/days 2 | |
| - Vaginal birth | 2 |
| - Cesarean birth | 4 |
| Other Information | |
| Midwife (CNM) assisted delivery | 29% |
| Vaginal deliveries in birthing rooms | 73% |
| Breastfeeding upon discharge | 85% |
| 1 Denominator: All Deliveries | |
| 2 Calculated by DHCFP | |
Last Updated: March 2005
This information is provided by the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy.