ARMC Wins CMQCC Quality and Engagement Awards for Maternity Care

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) has been honored with three quality achievement awards from the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) in recognition of its excellence in maternity care. ARMC’s maternity care team received the Quality & Sustainability Award: Cesarean Birth Rate (NTSV) and MDC Superstar Award: Medium Birth Volume Hospitals and also qualified for the 2025 Quality & Sustainability Honor Roll.

The Quality & Sustainability Award: Cesarean Birth Rate (NTSV) is awarded to hospitals that met and maintained California’s target rate for their cesarean birth rate among their Nulliparous, Term, Singleton, and Vertex (NTSV) birthing population for three consecutive years from 2022 – 2024.

The MDC Superstar Award: Medium Birth Volume Hospitals is awarded to hospitals with between 1,000 and 2,499 annual births that exhibited high levels of engagement with the Maternal Data Center (MDC). To achieve this status, ARMC hospital personnel accessed the Maternal Data Center more than 700 times across the Maternal Data Center utilization categories: Overall Login Counts, Supplemental Data Completeness, Hospital Report Views, and Provider Report Views during the previous calendar year, and earned at least 5 Maternal Data Center education hours (for attendance at MDC webinars and other educational events).

ARMC also notably earned a spot on the 2025 Quality & Sustainability Honor Roll. New for 2025, this honor roll recognizes hospitals whose performance reflects an outstanding level of work that goes above and beyond the Quality and Sustainability Award eligibility criteria.

“It is a huge honor for our maternity care team to be recognized with these three awards,” said ARMC’s Clinical Director for Maternal Child Services, Sheryl Wooldridge, MSN, RN. “Every year, we share in the excitement of thousands of births at our hospital, and our philosophy here at ARMC is to enhance the birthing experience for every family that comes through our doors. We’re looking forward to continuing our collaboration with CMQCC to deliver even better outcomes going forward.”

About The California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative

The California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) is a multi-stakeholder organization committed to ending preventable morbidity, mortality and racial disparities in maternity care. Working directly with nearly 300 member hospitals across several states, CMQCC uses research, quality improvement toolkits, state-wide outreach collaboratives and its innovative Maternal Data Center to improve health outcomes for mothers, birthing people, and newborns.

About Arrowhead Regional Medical Center

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center is a 456-bed university-affiliated teaching hospital licensed by the State of California Department of Public Health, operated by San Bernardino County, and governed by the Board of Supervisors. It is ARMC’s mission, in an environment of learning and innovation, to serve our diverse community with high-quality, compassionate care. The hospital, located on a 70-acre campus in Colton, California, operates the Edward G. Hirschman Regional Burn Center, the Dev A. GnanaDev Trauma Center, a comprehensive stroke center, an inpatient behavioral health center, neonatal intensive care unit, women’s health and maternal-fetal medicine, orthopedics, five primary care centers, and more. ARMC also provides more than 40 outpatient specialty care services. ARMC is helping to achieve the countywide vision by addressing the community’s wellness and educational needs. ARMC is the primary teaching hospital for the California University of Science and Medicine (CUSM). The University welcomed its first class of students in 2018. For more information on CUSM, visit https://cusm.edu/. For more information about ARMC, visit https://www.arrowheadregional.org/. You can also watch this video to learn more about ARMC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbqv6Ef7qfg