Background Information

The annual delivery rate in the Johnson Center for Pregnancy and the Newborn is
over 5000, with a cesarean delivery rate of just under 30%. Slightly less than half
of the patients are private community patients, about a third are Stanford Women's
Clinic (SWC) patients (i.e., the University service), and the remainder are San
Mateo County (SMC) patients. Stanford patients receive care from Stanford OB
residents under the supervision of Stanford Fetal-Maternal Medicine or OB faculty.
SMC patients also are on the teaching service working under the