{"id":84508,"date":"2025-12-11T21:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84508\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:43:06","slug":"covenant-childrens-named-one-of-the-best-hospitals-for-maternity-care-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84508\/","title":{"rendered":"Covenant Children\u2019s named one of the best hospitals for maternity care in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; (News release from Covenant Children\u2019s) <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Covenant Children\u2019s is proud to be recognized as a 2026 Best Hospital for Maternity Care by State by U.S. News &amp; World Report. This prestigious designation highlights Covenant Children\u2019s commitment to providing safe, high-quality care for mothers and babies during childbirth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Covenant Children\u2019s stood out for:<\/p>\n<p>Birthing-Friendly designation, meeting federal criteria, participating in quality improvement collaboratives and implementing patient safety practices to improve maternal outcomes.Strong breastfeeding support, with 61.8% of babies exclusively breastfed or fed breast milk during their hospital stay.Access to NICU and lactation consultants, ensuring comprehensive support for mothers and newborns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Each year, U.S. News evaluates hospitals nationwide to help expecting parents make informed decisions about where to deliver their baby. Rankings are based on key measures such as C-section rates, newborn severe complication rates, routine vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) rates, episiotomy rates, breastfeeding support, and whether a hospital meets federal criteria for birthing-friendly practices. In 2026, 495 top hospitals across the country have earned the \u201cHigh Performing\u201d rating for maternity care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAt Covenant Children\u2019s, we strive to provide the safest, most compassionate care for every family,\u201d said Shannon Bates, chief nursing officer. \u201cThis recognition affirms our team\u2019s dedication to best practices and personalized support throughout the childbirth experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To learn more about maternity services at Covenant Children\u2019s, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.providence.org\/locations\/covenant-health\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.providence.org\/locations\/covenant-health\">covenanthealth.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; (News release from Covenant Children\u2019s) Covenant Children\u2019s is proud to be recognized as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[40658,40659,584,6118,319,251,168,170,169,40660],"class_list":["post-84508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-covenant-childrens","tag-covenant-health","tag-health","tag-health-news","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-maternity-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}