Birthing-friendly hospitals in Maine

Birthing-friendly hospitals › Maine

Maine has 17 birthing-friendly hospitals. 17 of them have an emergency department. Across those that report it, the median emergency department visit lasts 3 hr 7 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
Maine General Medical Center	Augusta	3 hr 7 min	4/5
Eastern Maine Medical Center	Bangor	3 hr 39 min	5/5
Mount Desert Island Hospital	Bar Harbor	2 hr 10 min	—
Waldo County General Hospital	Belfast	2 hr 32 min	3/5
Lincolnhealth	Boothbay Harbor	2 hr 24 min	3/5
Mid Coast Hospital	Brunswick	3 hr 16 min	3/5
Cary Medical Center	Caribou	2 hr 21 min	1/5
Mayo Regional Hospital	Dover Foxcroft	2 hr 24 min	2/5
Maine Coast Memorial Hospital	Ellsworth	3 hr 26 min	3/5
Mainehealth Franklin Hospital	Farmington	2 hr 50 min	3/5
Central Maine Medical Center	Lewiston	4 hr 13 min	4/5
Mainehealth Stephens Hospital	Norway	2 hr 5 min	4/5
Maine Medical Center	Portland	3 hr 27 min	4/5
Mercy Hospital	Portland	3 hr 28 min	4/5
Northern Light a R Gould Hospital	Presque Isle	3 hr 20 min	2/5
Penobscot Bay Medical Center	Rockport	2 hr 38 min	3/5
Maine General Medical Center	Waterville	3 hr 7 min	4/5

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