Birthing-friendly hospitals in Alaska

Birthing-friendly hospitals › Alaska

Alaska has 12 birthing-friendly hospitals. 12 of them have an emergency department. Across those that report it, the median emergency department visit lasts 2 hr 26 min.

The birthing-friendly designation marks hospitals that have attested to taking part in a maternity care quality improvement programme and to implementing recommended patient safety practices. It reflects participation in those programmes rather than a measured birth outcome, so treat it as one signal among several when choosing where to give birth.

Hospital	City	ER wait	CMS rating
Alaska Native Medical Center	Anchorage	2 hr 2 min	2/5
Alaska Regional Hospital	Anchorage	2 hr 15 min	1/5
Providence Alaska Medical Ctr	Anchorage	3 hr 1 min	3/5
Providence Alaska Medical Center	Anchorage	3 hr 1 min	3/5
Yukon Kuskokwim Delta Reg Hospital	Bethel	not reported	5/5
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital	Fairbanks	2 hr 52 min	2/5
South Peninsula Hospital	Homer	2 hr 17 min	—
Bartlett Regional Hospital	Juneau	2 hr 49 min	4/5
Ketchikan General Hospital	Ketchikan	2 hr 10 min	4/5
Norton Sound Regional Hospital	Nome	not reported	—
Central Peninsula General Hospital	Soldotna	2 hr 26 min	2/5
Providence Valdez Medical Center	Valdez	2 hr 8 min	—

Designation published by CMS alongside the Hospital General Information dataset. Data published July 2026. See all hospitals in Alaska, or Birthing-friendly hospitals in other states. How this data works.