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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Birth. 2018 May 27;45(4):432–439. doi: 10.1111/birt.12359

TABLE 1.

Characteristics of hospitals with ideala rooming-in practices, mPINC survey 2007–2015

Hospital characteristics Number of hospitals (5-y range) Percentage of hospitals reporting most infants are rooming-in >23 h a day Percentage point change (2007–2015)
2007 2009 2011 2013 2015
Total 2233–2568 27.8 30.2 33.6 41.2 51.4 +23.6
Hospital type
 Private (for profit) 296–341 25.6 26.9 29.3 44.3 48.3 +22.7
 Government 444–526 34.8 34.8 37.1 39.6 53.8 +19.0
 Nonprofit/nongovernment 1473–1692 25.3 28.6 33.0 40.6 50.9 +25.6
 Military 17–26 74.1 85.7 76.5 76.9 85.0 +10.9
Teaching hospital
 Yes 174–208 20.3 31.0 29.8 35.7 50.3 +30.0
 No 2048–2360 28.4 30.1 34.0 41.7 51.5 +23.1
Size (annual number of births)
 1–249 403–513 32.4 35.1 33.5 40.1 50.1 +17.7
 250–499 431–462 28.8 26.4 30.5 41.5 52.9 +24.1
 500–999 475–564 27.9 29.8 36.1 41.3 49.1 +21.2
 1000–1999 493–560 23.4 27.1 35.4 42.1 52.7 +29.3
 2000–4999 438–458 26.9 32.7 33.0 42.3 52.3 +25.4
 ≥5000 51–70 27.1 30.7 26.2 31.2 47.1 +20.0
Geographic region
 Mid-Atlantic 227–250 14.0 14.9 20.7 26.8 38.1 +24.1
 Midwest 504–532 16.5 19.5 24.1 27.9 43.5 +27.0
 Mountain Plains 383–387 25.1 27.2 28.4 33.9 46.9 +21.8
 Northeast 224–237 19.6 21.1 27.5 33.6 47.9 +28.3
 Southeast 414–438 23.5 22.7 27.1 38.9 45.9 +22.4
 Southwest 304–327 30.6 35.1 29.1 45.2 51.3 +20.7
 Western 385–397 61.4 65.0 71.9 78.0 80.8 +19.4
a

Ideal defined as ≥90% of infants rooming-in >23 h per day.