One Suffolk hospital placed among the top 10 in the state that have delivered outstanding results with the Paternity Establishment Program.

The program is designed give unmarried parents the chance to determine paternity of their newborns before they leave the hospital.

“Each child born in Virginia and throughout the nation deserves the benefits of having two parents acknowledged,” said Nick Young, the director of the Virginia Department of Social Services Division of Child Support Enforcement. “It represents our commitment to the children we serve.”

The results are calculated by comparing the number of births to unmarried parents who choose to find out paternity to the total number of births to unmarried parents.

The top hospitals out of 58 that participated in the statewide program established paternity in at least 75 percent of births to unmarried parents.

The average for Virginia is 67 percent.

Sentara Obici Hospital has a rate of 55.64 percent, establishing paternity for 353 of 631 births.

Warren Memorial Hospital-Valley Health in Front Royal took the top spot with a establishment rate of 79.91 percent.

The hospital determined the paternity for 179 of the 224 births to unmarried parents.

Warren Memorial’s percentage of unmarried parent births versus married parent births is one of the highest out of the participating hospitals at 56 percent.

The rest of the top ten includes Martha Jefferson Hospital, in Charlottesville; INOVA Fair Oaks Hospital, in Fairfax; Montgomery Regional Hospital-Lewis Gale, in Blacksburg; INOVA Loudoun Hospital Center, in Leesburg; Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital, in Rocky Mount; CJW Medical Center-Johnston-Willis, in Richmond; Twin County Regional Hospital, in Galax; Fauquier Hospital Inc., in Warrenton; and Winchester Medical Center-Valley Health, in Winchester.

For more information and the complete list of rankings, visit www.vapaternity.org.