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Programs
BC Women’s is a complex organization, with a varied mandate over several areas of work. We are the lead agency for women’s health in B.C. with a mandate to address a broad range of women’s health issues across the province.
Our extensive clinical responsibilities both support and are supported by our academic responsibilities in the teaching of health professionals and in research, both of which are implemented through a variety of partnerships with research bodies both internal and external, and universities and colleges throughout B.C.
Maternity Care
BC Women’s is the largest maternity hospital in Canada, supporting more than 7,000 women a year in giving birth, and caring for several hundred very high risk newborns every year in our intensive care nurseries. In our Diagnostic and Ambulatory Program, we provide essential prenatal consultation, diagnostic and interventional services to women with complex pregnancies. We are the lead tertiary perinatal provider in the province and are responsible for the Provincial Tertiary Perinatal Program and the BC Reproductive Care Program. BC Women’s is the home of the Provincial Medical Genetics Program, offering a full range of clinical genetics services for families.
Women’s Health Centre
Our Specialized Women’s Health programs are offered to women of all ages who live in B.C. They encompass service delivery and provincial outreach activities. Each program integrates health promotion principles and works in partnership with a number of community agencies and institutions. These programs include the Access Clinic, Asian Women’s Clinic, Aurora Residential and Day Treatment, Aboriginal Health, Reproductive Medicine, Reproductive Mental Health, and Comprehensive Abortion and Reproductive Education (CARE), Breast Assessment and Diagnosis, Osteoporosis, Continence, Sexual Assault Services, Women Abuse Response, Provincial Violence and Health Initiative, Oak Tree Clinic for Women and Children with HIV/AIDS, Women with Disabilities, and Youth Health.
BC Women’s is committed to providing full choice for women especially with respect to the management of their reproductive lives. We support a full range of reproductive care options, working in partnership with community agencies such as the Planned Parenthood Association of B.C. We have been a strong supporter of the Provincial Emergency Contraception Program, and through our CARE program we support access for women across B.C. to abortion services.
Several B.C. Women’s programs, including the Newborn Care Program (intensive care nurseries), the Oak Tree Clinic for Women and Children with HIV, and the Youth Health Program are essentially integrated with BC Children’s Hospital. Our Medical Genetics Program provides significant services within Children’s clinical areas. The close partnership with Children’s is an important part of the BC Women’s identity.
Academic Centre
As an academic health centre, BC Women’s is affiliated with the University of British Columbia, and is partnered with many other post-secondary institutions across the province. BC Women’s plays a unique role in undergraduate, post-graduate and continuing education of a wide range of health-care professionals and researchers in maternity and newborn care and specialized women’s health.
We are strongly committed to research and have the Women’s Health Research Institute, one of Canada's only institutes dedicated to women's health research. Our researchers are affiliated with a variety of research organizations including the Child & Family Research Institute and we host the BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health.
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