These Birth Centers were voted the Bay Area’s 2024 Best of Bay Area Parent by our readers. Read the full list of winners here.
East Bay
Gold: Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek Medical Center. Offers 24-hour ob-gyn physicians, certified nurse midwives, an advice line, private family birthing suites among other things. Walnut Creek. wklys.us/0z_F.
Silver: John Muir Health Walnut Creek Medical Center. Walnut Creek. wklys.us/O250.
Bronze: Eden Medical Center. Castro Valley. sutterhealth.org/eden.
Peninsula
Gold: Sequoia Hospital. It offers anesthesia, pediatricians, OB physicians 24 hours a day and virtual parenting classes. Redwood City. dignityhealth.org/bayarea/locations/sequoia.
Silver: Mills-Peninsula Medical Center. Burlingame. mills-peninsula.org/birthcenter.
Bronze: Stork & Sprout. San Mateo. storkandsprout.com.
San Francisco/Marin
Gold: California Pacific Medical Center. This is one of the largest not-for-profit medical centers in the state. San Francisco. sutterhealth.org/cpmc.
Silver: San Francisco Birth Center. San Francisco. sfbirthcenter.com.
Silicon Valley
Gold: Casa Natal Birth & Wellness Center. It provides a spacious, home-like environment fully stocked with the clinical and comfort necessities for an unmedicated birth. Los Gatos and Morgan Hill. casa-natal.com.
Silver: Good Samaritan Hospital. San Jose. goodsamsanjose.com.
Silver: Kaiser Permanente. San Jose and Santa Clara. kaiserpermanente.org.
Bronze: Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford Birth Center. Palo Alto. wklys.us/sncG.