Utah Department of Health and Human Services
Annual or other report
Key Findings: • The neonatal mortality
rate in planned OOH
births is 3 times higher
than the rate in planned
hospital births. These
estimates will be
explored in future reports
and used by the OOH
Birth Committee to guide
quality improvement
efforts in and out of
hospital.
• About 10% of planned
OOH births were
transferred to a hospital
during labor. A majority
of these transferred
patients had no prior
births.
• More individuals with
pre-existing medical
conditions had planned
hospital births. This likely
contributed to the higher
observed prevalence of
NICU admission, maternal
uterine infection, and
cesarean section,1 along
with other possible
contributing factors.