After much patience with the department of health care access in Connecticut we obtained some of the statistics we have been looking for. While we do not have the percentages at this point in time because we still have some pieces of missing information, we do have the number of cesarean sections, episiotomies, and forcep/vaccum/breech deliveries (which is apparently counted as one statistic and number in CT's recordings).
Today I am posting the Episiotomy rates.
The numbers I am putting in blue we consider to be high and will be addressed to lower.
Bridgeport Hospital - 191
Bristol Hospital - 24
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital - 53
Danbury Hospital - 61
Day Kimball Hospital - 65
Greenwich Hospital - 269
Griffin Hospital - 80
Hartford Hospital - 168
Hospital of St. Raphael - 74
John Dempsey Hospital - 11
Johnson Memorial Hospital - 36
Lawrence and Memorial Hospital - 120
Manchester Memorial Hospital - 55
Middlesex Memorial Hospital - 91
Midstate Medical Center - 187
Milford Hospital - 44
New Milford Hospital - 64
Norwalk Hospital - 163
Rockville General Hospital - 66
Saint Francis Hospital - 248
Saint Mary's Hospital - 77
Saint Vincent's Medical Center - 96
Sharon Hospital - 30
Stamford Hospital - 517
The Hospital of Central Connecticut - 96
Waterbury Hospital - 155
William W. Backus Hospital - 56
Windham Community Memorial Hospital - 5
Yale New Haven Hospital - 224
These are some huge episiotomy numbers!
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I know you said data is missing so you can't do percentages, but I think that would really help me to interpret the data. For example, Yale has 224. Is that people per year? How many people deliver at Yale per year?
ReplyDeleteOkay, so I took the total number of births at Yale from your C-section #'s and calculated Yale's episiotomy rate to be less than 5%. That seems low, not high, to me. What would you consider to be a low number?
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