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Our Personal Bests
Biggest Baby: 12lbs. 2oz boy
7/31/03
Most Deliveries in 24 hrs: 5
10/13/04
Most Deliveries in 1 month: 27
8/08
Most New Clients in 1 month: 59
5/06
Most Clients Due in 1 month: 32
1/03
Episiotomies this Year: 1
Most Deliveries/time: 3/45 minutes
7/16/05
First Leap Year Baby: Mirci-Rose Jeber
2/29/04
Record # of Babies Born in a Row: 10
Father's Day: 3 baby girls were born!
6/18/06
Current C-section rate: 3.1%
2 Babies 3 minutes apart: Male 8lbs 14oz; Female 8lbs 14oz
5/17/07
How We Measure Up
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Breast feeding
at birth (early postpartum)
| 100% |
Best
Start Birth Center |
| 75% |
Healthy
People 2010 Target |
| 58.9% |
San
Diego County |
| 73.8% |
United
States |
Exclusive Breastfeeding
at 6 months
| 89% |
Best
Start Birth Center |
| 50% |
Healthy
People 2010 Target |
| 14.2% |
San
Diego County |
| 41.5% |
United
States |
Exclusive Breastfeeding
at 12 months
| 65% |
Best
Start Birth Center |
| 25% |
Healthy
People 2010 Target |
Primary Cesarean rate
(a woman's first delivery by cesarean)
| 3.1% |
Best
Start Birth Center |
| 15% |
Healthy
People 2010 Target |
| 26.3% |
San
Diego County |
| 20.3+% |
United
States
(Total C-section rate
for US in 2005 was 31.1%) |
In 2007 Best Start Birth Center participated in the Center for Disease Control's PINC Survey of Maternity Care Practices and Infant Feeding. Over 2,500 facilities participated. The composite score for the birth center was 98 out of a possible high score of 100. We placed in the 99th percentile for facilities in the Nation and State of California having less than 250 births per year. This means that we are performing better than 99% of all of these facilities. A particularly interesting observation is that the Best Start Birth Center is able to achieve this stellar rank simply by having the staff and environment that supports normal birth and post partum behaviors for the mother, baby, and family. In other words, all we do is respect the mom and her baby and trust them to be healthy and behave in ways to promote their own health. If hospitals could do the same outcomes in the US would improve across the board. You can go to
www.cdc.gov/mpinc to see more about the survey.
Roberta Frank, CNM Best Start Birth Center
Clinical Director, (President of the Board)
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