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Maternity & Family Care
Maternity care is provided by many practitioners based in the hospital and in the community. You can see a family physician, a midwife, or, upon referral, an obstetrician, for prenatal care.
Physicians and midwives provide primary care in a number of ways that include:
- Family Practice Physicians : Many physicians have community practices and are able to offer women full maternity care as well as, in some cases, full family practice care.
- Family Practice Centre : These health practitioners offer full service primary health care in the setting of an on site Family Practice Teaching unit.
- Family Practice Maternity Service : These physicians assist pregnant women requiring maternity care when their own family doctors are not delivering babies.
- Midwifery Care:. Midwives primary care to women during pregnancy, labour, birth and the postpartum period.
- South Community Birth Program: This team of physicians, registered midwives, community health nurses, and doulas work collaboratively to offer comprehensive care to expectant women and new mothers.
- Youth Pregnancy Program: Housed at the Evergreen Community Health Centre, this program, developed by two Family Physicians, provides teen pregnancy support and community resources.
- Substance Use in Pregnancy : This team of physicians provides pregnancy care to women with addictions either at BC Women’s or at the Sheway clinic on the Downtown Eastside.
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