Birthing-friendly hospitals in North Dakota

Birthing-friendly hospitals › North Dakota

North Dakota has 13 birthing-friendly hospitals. 13 of them have an emergency department. Across those that report it, the median emergency department visit lasts 2 hr 56 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
Sanford Medical Center Bismarck	Bismarck	3 hr	4/5
St Alexius Medical Center	Bismarck	2 hr 56 min	4/5
CHI St Alexius Health Devils Lake	Devils Lake	2 hr 13 min	2/5
St Joseph's Hospital & Health Center	Dickinson	2 hr 54 min	2/5
Essentia Health-Fargo	Fargo	1 hr 48 min	3/5
Sanford Medical Center Fargo	Fargo	3 hr 1 min	4/5
Sanford Medical Center Fargo	Fargo	3 hr 1 min	4/5
Altru Health System	Grand Forks	2 hr 57 min	3/5
Altru Hospital	Grand Forks	2 hr 57 min	3/5
West River Regional Medical Center-CAH	Hettinger	2 hr 2 min	4/5
Jamestown Hospital	Jamestown	1 hr 49 min	4/5
Trinity Hospitals	Minot	4 hr 7 min	3/5
CHI St Alexius Health Williston	Williston	2 hr 36 min	3/5

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