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Boston Medical Center, UConn John Dempsey Hospital, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center named among America's Best Maternity Hospitals 2026 by Newsweek. NEW YORK, April 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Newsweek, in partnership with Statista, the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider, today announced its annual ranking of America's Best Maternity Hospitals 2026, recognizing 460 leading hospitals across the United States. Maternity care in the U.S. faces a critical moment. More than one-third of counties in America are labeled maternity care deserts. The ranking highlights hospitals distinguished by their ability to integrate advanced technologies such as ambient AI and remote monitoring with comprehensive, patient-centered care, including doula and midwifery support. Among the hospitals receiving five ribbons in 2026 are: * Boston Medical Center - Boston, MA * UConn John Dempsey Hospital - Farmington, CT * Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Nashville, TN * University of Chicago Medical Center - Chicago, IL * Mayo Clinic - Rochester - Rochester, MN * Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center - Riverside, CA * Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center - Fort Worth, TX "Choosing where to start or grow a family is a decision that carries immense emotional and clinical weight," said Alexis Kayser, Health Care Editor at Newsweek. "In an era where health care is increasingly complex, Newsweek's Best Maternity Hospitals 2026 ranking cuts through the noise by prioritizing rigorous data from newborn complication rates to patient experience scores, helping empower parents to make informed decisions." For the 2026 ranking, Newsweek and Statista evaluated hospitals across facility quality metrics, patient experience, and reputation. Quality metrics were derived from multiple sources, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, The Leapfrog Hospital Survey, and additional data across maternal health, patient safety, and maternity services. Patient experience scores were based on publicly available hospital survey data, while reputation was determined through a nationwide survey of medical professionals conducted between January and February 2026. Hospitals were required to exceed predefined thresholds across all pillars to be included in the ranking. Those that scored in the 80th percentile or higher across all three categories were awarded five ribbons, the ranking's highest distinction. The rankings reflect data collected between February 26, 2025, and February 26, 2026, and are intended to serve as a resource for families seeking high-quality maternity care. The print issue featuring America's Best Maternity Hospitals 2026 will be available on May 8, 2026. The full list of awarded hospitals can be viewed here: rankings.newsweek.com/americas-best-maternity-hospitals-2026 About Newsweek: Newsweek is the global digital news organization built around the iconic 94-year-old American magazine. Newsweek reaches 100 million people monthly with its thought-provoking news, opinion, images, graphics, and video delivered across a dozen print and digital platforms. Headquartered in New York City, Newsweek also publishes international editions in 50 countries. Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content "as is" without warranty of any kind. Today in New York do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.

Boston Medical Center. April 15, 2026 Boston Medical Center (BMC) provides world-class, compassionate health care to the people of Boston and beyond. BMC is a national leader in innovative research and practice to reduce health inequities and advance root causes of medical issues like economic mobility, housing, food and transportation. Recognizing the health impacts of environmental factors, BMC is also a national leader in environmental sustainability - from hospital-based rooftop farms to their Clean Power Prescription, a first-in-the-nation pilot that enables BMC providers to write patients a prescription for a reduced utility bill. Takeda's longstanding partnership with BMC supports two key innovative initiatives: Health Equity Accelerator. The BMC Health Equity Accelerator aims to eliminate race-based health equity gaps throughout the U.S. The Accelerator's initial focus is on five clinical areas - pregnancy, cancer, infectious disease, chronic conditions and behavioral health - in which patient outcomes vary significantly by background, health status and socioeconomic factors. Takeda and BMC have a multi-pronged, multi-year partnership to expand the impact of the Accelerator. Key initiatives include increasing disease screenings, reducing chronic disease complications and embedding successful health equity practices into state and national frameworks. Health care decarbonization. Recognizing the clear connection between community health and planetary health, BMC and Takeda launched a first-of-its-kind research collaboration to catalyze the decarbonization of the health care value chain. The effort aims to provide insight and interventions that will help those across the global health care ecosystem reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the treatment and disposal of regulated medical waste, like pharmaceutical packaging and single-use plastics, which is one of the most difficult environmental challenges facing the industry. The results are designed to be shared and scaled across the health care ecosystem, starting with this year's publication of learnings and best practices. "Without having healthy environments for our patients to live in...we are not able to do our job. So, we just expand our definition of health care." Dr. Thea James, Vice President of Mission and Associate Chief Medical Officer, Boston Medical Center

Martha Samuelson's impact is tied to BMC's powerful legacy of women leaders. March 23, 2026 John Gillooly Martha Samuelson, chairman and a full-time partner of Analysis Group, is being honored at BMC's annual event, Seasons, celebrating her decade-plus of leadership and counsel on its Board of Trustees. Looking back at the last 30 years of Boston Medical Center, it's hard to deny the impact women had on not only its own progress, but the health and wellbeing of all the people it serves. Martha Samuelson, who has served as chair of the Board of Trustees, reflects on her role and her deep relationships with current and former women leaders of the hospital. It was 2007 when Martha Samuelson first toured Boston Medical Center. Then-president and CEO Elaine Ullian asked Samuelson, with whom she was on the Citizens Bank board at the time, to visit the campus and see the transformative work she and her teams were doing. Samuelson describes walking through the BMC pharmacy, seeing patients waiting for the medicine they otherwise wouldn't have access to, and then touring surgical suites and seeing the state-of-the-art equipment. "My jaw dropped," Samuelson, the former CEO of the Analysis Group, tells HealthCity. "When I thought about healthcare, I never thought about differential access to healthcare. It didn't occur to me that hospitals could be part of social justice." The tour kicked off nearly two decades of her guidance and leadership of the essential academic medical center and health system. Shortly after her initial tour, Samuelson and her husband, Paul, philanthropically supported BMC and in 2008, she joined the BMC Board of Trustees, serving as board chair from 2016 until last year. From 2013 to 2025, she also served on the BMC Health System Board, lending her expertise and leadership to support the growth of the health system. This year, hospital is honoring Samuelson at BMC Seasons on May 9, an annual fundraising event that will raise essential operating funds and mark the hospital's 30th anniversary of the merger of Boston City Hospital and Boston University Medical Center. In addition, the health system is honoring longtime collaborator in sustainability, Takeda, and the late Richard Slifka, former board member who was dedicated to fighting multiple sclerosis in honor of his late mother, Sonya, and championed many BMC initiatives. In her time advising and supporting BMC, Samuelson joined a roster of women leaders - including her initial tour guide Ullian - who bolstered not only each other, but the patients and community members the health system serves, as well as the women healthcare leaders who have followed them. Women in healthcare leadership. Around 80% of healthcare decisions are made by women, who often spearhead the decision-making across their families, with their spouses, children, and even aging parents. And while women also make up the majority of the healthcare workforce, they still lag in executive and C-suite roles, particularly CEOs. So, Ullian, who served as president and CEO of BMC from 1996 to 2010, was unique, a pioneer in the space. Soon into Samuelson's involvement with BMC, she was directly involved in hiring Ullian's successor, a leader who ended up continuing that legacy of women in leadership at the academic medical center. Kate Walsh, who recently retired as the Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services, stepped into the role of president and CEO in 2010. Walsh's hiring was the beginning of a deep relationship built on mutual respect, admiration, and values. "I am so grateful to Martha for her leadership, generosity, and wisdom during my time at BMC and so happy for our enduring friendship!" Walsh wrote in a note to celebrate Samuelson at Seasons. "Martha, you are a great combination of smarts, practicality and kindness - tailor made for BMC! Thank you...for everything!!!" There's a foundation of understanding between the two women, women who held powerful leadership positions across industries when leaders were commonly men. Samuelson's recently stepped down from her role as CEO of Analysis Group, an international economics consulting firm, but in her tenure, she built the team to a point where 40% of the partners were women. "Kate and I are unbelievably close personal friends and continue to be. I think there just aren't that many of us." she says. "There aren't that many of us at our age. The world has moved forward, and that's a great thing, but I think we grew close because of that from the get-go." The critically important work of nursing. It was because of another woman leader in healthcare that Samuelson committed to philanthropically supporting nursing at BMC. BMC's Nancy Gaden, DNP, RN, FAAN, joined the organization in 2014 and is now senior vice president and Chief Nursing Officer. She and Samuelson immediately hit it off. "I couldn't be more impressed by what she does," Samuelson says about Gaden. "Through Nancy, I've had more of a window into how impressive and how critically important this group of nurses is." In 2023, Samuelson established the endowed Nursing Research and Clinical Innovation Fund. Her gift supports clinical innovation and research in the Department of Nursing. "Martha cares deeply about people, and it shines through in her leadership," Gaden wrote about Samuelson. "The nursing department is deeply grateful for her unwavering commitment to patient care." From board member to trusted advisor. What Samuelson says she appreciates most about her time at BMC was that she was trusted as a partner for her own achievements, expertise, and perspective. Ullian, Walsh, and upon Walsh's move in 2022, Alastair Bell, MD - who now serves as president and CEO of BMC Health System - all respected Samuelson's storied career and looked to her as an advisor. "I wasn't just asked to sort of support the organization financially. I was asked to be involved in ways that drew on my strengths, and that mattered to me enormously," Samuelson says. "I almost immediately became involved in managerial aspects, helping to select Kate, and helping to address the challenges that came along for the institution. For me, I wanted to be called on in ways beyond financial support - that part was very important." As Walsh and Samuelson's relationship grew, so did their respect for each other's perspective. They became each other's advisors, confidants, and ultimately, close friends through the next decade-plus at BMC and still today. Samuelson tells stories of some of the hardest times, when they would support each other with a shoulder to cry on or pieces of advice to help each other push forward. COVID-19 pandemic and Samuelson's calling. Among those hard times, perhaps no challenge was more immense than the COVID-19 pandemic, which hit about a decade into their partnership at BMC. "Supporting Kate and Alastair through COVID - I really felt like I was put on the planet for a reason, and that was part of the reason," says Samuelson. As an essential hospital serving a patient base who have largely been underserved by healthcare, BMC wasn't just facing an unprecedented global pandemic, it was also facing a growing set of health disparities for its vulnerable patients and communities. Samuelson describes helping the hospital leadership navigate life-or-death decisions for which there was no blueprint. How would they operate if care was constrained? What would they do if they didn't have enough ventilators to meet their need? How would care be allocated? And, for BMC in particular, how could they ensure that the most underserved communities had access to care and, when they became available, vaccines? "We moved immediately. We had to radically change how the board participated with the organization to support people through incredibly challenging times," says Samuelson. "I felt like I could help with that. I felt like my judgement was good, my sense of fairness is really central to me, and those were called on like never before during COVID." Gaden agrees, writing, "[Martha's] passion, presence and leadership during COVID inspired us all." When vaccines became available and it was clear that Black and Brown Americans weren't getting the same access to this potentially life-saving intervention, BMC under Walsh stood up several vaccination sites in crucial, underserved neighborhoods through partnerships with trusted community leaders, including Mattapan, Roxbury, and Dorchester. The effort helped close gaps in access and vaccination rates. "I think we came through feeling very proud of how we did it. That was incredibly important," says Samuelson. A foundation for what comes next for women in healthcare. Samuelson has been reflecting a lot lately. What's important to her is becoming even clearer as she looks back. "The things that are important to me are building robust institutions that are sustainable and durable for the long term and making good, sometimes tough, business decisions that are consistent with that," she says. But she doesn't like to think about her own legacy. "If you start to think about yourself too much, you end up getting transactional and making decisions that seem expedient in the short term, but are actually are dangerous for the institution," she reflects. Women are still facing a large gap in executive and C-suite roles in healthcare, but new generations are showing promise toward closing those gaps. And while Samuelson doesn't like to focus on her own legacy, the foundational role of people like her, Walsh, Ullian, Gaden, and many others who stand in leadership positions is lighting the way for the women that come after them. Their impact on the last 30 years of BMC is clear for those following in their footsteps.