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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. This model of care provides shared care for labour and delivery and 24hr in-hospital attendance when needed.
- 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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