The Best Maternity Care in Bucks County and Surrounding Areas
Where you decide to welcome your newborn into the world is one of many important decisions you’ll make as parents. This guide can help you choose a location with confidence
Bucks County and its surrounding regions offer a range of maternity care options, from intimate community hospitals to major regional medical centers.
Given Bucks County’s geographic location, expecting parents have the unique advantage of being able to consider options in Bucks County, neighboring communities, and even Philadelphia. Our area offers many resources for new parents, too.
When selecting where to give birth, the distance to your chosen birth location becomes particularly important given the county’s size. Consider your comfort with travel time, especially if you’re considering highly-rated facilities in adjacent regions like the Lehigh Valley or Montgomery County.
- What to Consider When Choosing Maternity Care?
- What Are Hospital Quality Indicators?
- Bucks County Maternity Care Options
- Notable Maternity Care Options Near Bucks County
- Explore More Maternity Care Options with our Sister Brands
- What Are Good Questions to Ask During a Bucks County Maternity Care Tour?
- What Are the Different NICU Levels?
- Additional Resources for Bucks County’s Expecting Parents
What to Consider When Choosing Maternity Care?
1. Verify insurance coverage: Insurance coverage may vary among your birth location and care providers.
2. Check neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) facilities: How does a hospital or birth center manage premature births? The level of NICU care varies among suburban hospital facilities, ranging from basic newborn care to highly specialized units. Birth centers may provide hospital transfer plans.
3. Determine birth preferences: Hospitals typically provide the full range of medical interventions, while birth centers focus on natural birthing practices. Think about private rooms, shared rooms, or water births, and see how a facility matches your birthing plan.
4. Review visitor policies: Are family members allowed during or after the birth? Is there a limit on how many people are allowed in the room during the birthing process?
5. Consider the logistics: Is the parking situation complicated? What door does a mother in labor enter? Figure out how the maternal care center handles the birthing mother right from the start.
What Are Hospital Quality Indicators?
Hospital quality indicators are standardized ways to access the adequacy of a particular healthcare institution. They help hospital and other healthcare leaders improve quality of life, efficiency, procedures, and other factors based on the results.
These evidence-based quality measures include:
- Baby-Friendly Designation (🌟): Baby-Friendly hospitals are formally designated by Baby-Friendly USA (BFUSA) for implementing evidence-based maternity practices that support breastfeeding and optimal infant feeding. The Baby-Friendly designation is generally valid for five years, provided the hospital maintains compliance with BFUSA’s current standards.
- U.S. News High Performing (⭐): This is a top-tier rating for uncomplicated pregnancy care, based on factors like breast milk feeding rates and newborn complication rates.
Bucks County Maternity Care Options
Penn Medicine Doylestown Health
595 West State Street, Doylestown | 215-345-2200
Penn Medicine Doylestown Health is a community teaching hospital that provides comprehensive, family-centered maternity care through its VIA Maternity Center. The 32-bed maternity unit includes nine private labor, delivery, and recovery rooms, and 22 private postpartum rooms. It also provides wireless fetal monitoring, mother-baby couplet care and daily lactation support.
Expecting families are cared for by an experienced team, while newborns receive care from pediatricians and neonatologists affiliated with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The hospital’s Level II Intensive Care Nursery is staffed 24/7 by CHOP neonatologists and specially trained neonatal nurses, providing specialized care for premature or medically fragile newborns in a family-focused setting. Take a virtual tour of the Via Maternity Center.
Key Features of Penn Medicine Doylestown Health:
- Level II Intensive Care Nursery
- All private rooms
- Childbirth education programs
- Support for personalized, lower-intervention birth preferences
St. Mary Medical Center (Langhorne)
1201 Langhorne-Newtown Road, Langhorne | 215-710-2000
St. Mary Maternity Care Center in Langhorne provides comprehensive maternity services, including private labor, delivery, recovery, and mother-baby suites; 24/7 onsite obstetric laborists; and specialized care for high-risk pregnancies. The center has a Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), where board-certified neonatologists from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia provide 24/7 care. Board-certified obstetricians, midwives, and experienced registered nurses provide individualized support throughout pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the postpartum period. Register for an upcoming maternity tour at St. Mary.
Key Features of St. Mary Medical Center (Langhorne):
- Level II NICU
- Private rooms
- Comprehensive maternity services
- Convenient for families in Lower and Central Bucks
Notable Maternity Care Options Near Bucks County
Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest (Allentown)
1200 South Cedar Crest Boulevard, Allentown | 610-402-8000
Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest, home to the David and Jackie Jaindl Family Birth and Newborn Center, provides comprehensive maternity care for both low- and high-risk pregnancies. The center’s team includes obstetricians, laborists, certified nurse-midwives, nurses and resident physicians, with maternal-fetal medicine specialists available around the clock for high-risk conditions and pregnancy complications. The hospital also offers 24-hour anesthesia and fetal monitoring, along with a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) located on campus at Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital, providing the region’s highest level of neonatal intensive care for premature and critically ill newborns. Schedule an in-person tour of Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest.
- 🌟 Baby-Friendly Designated (Re-designated 2023-2028)
- ⭐ U.S. News High Performing in Maternity Care (2025-26)
Key Features of Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest (Allentown):
- Level IV NICU (highest level available)
- Comprehensive maternal services
- Advanced technology and facilities
- Worth considering for northern Bucks residents
Jefferson Abington Hospital (Montgomery County)
1200 Old York Road, Abington | 215-481-2000
Jefferson Abington Hospital is part of Jefferson Health and is a regional referral and teaching hospital in the northern Philadelphia suburbs. Jefferson Health Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) has been handling high-risk pregnancies through a multidisciplinary, team-based approach for more than 40 years. The hospital provides comprehensive maternity care supported by OB/GYNs, certified nurse-midwives, maternal-fetal medicine specialists and other clinical experts, with care extending from pregnancy through delivery and postpartum. Language and interpreter services are available for patients who need assistance communicating in English. Go on a virtual tour of Jefferson Abington and/or schedule an in-person tour.
- 🌟 Baby-Friendly Designated (Re-designated 2023-2028)
- ⭐ U.S. News High Performing in Maternity Care (2025-26)
Key Features of Jefferson Abington Hospital:
- Level III NICU
- All private rooms
- Dedicated lactation consultants
- Convenient for Lower Bucks residents
Explore More Maternity Care Options with our Sister Brands
What Are Good Questions to Ask During a Bucks County Maternity Care Tour?
- What are current C-section rates?
- What birth positions and pain management options are available?
- What is the visitor/support person policy?
- How do room assignments work?
- What happens in case of complications?
What Are the Different NICU Levels?
- Level I: Basic newborn care
- Level II: Special care nursery for moderately ill infants
- Level III: Complex neonatal care, including most critical cases
- Level IV: Highest level of care for the most complex cases
Additional Resources for Bucks County’s Expecting Parents
The Bucks County Parent Baby Guide is a great resource for parenting advice, service providers, and local experts sharing their top tips. Additional resources include the following:
Note: Statistics and rates should be verified with individual hospitals as they change over time. Remember that raw statistics don’t tell the whole story — factors such as whether a hospital handles more high-risk cases can affect their intervention rates.
