Maternity Care

• Maternity clinic opens in the greater Kelowna area

  This new clinic builds on the existing primary care network in the Central Okanagan and will ensure expectant families are connected to the team-based care they need.

  Health

  Dec 7, 2023
  
• Shortage of specialists may force expecting moms to deliver in other Interior communities

  Vernon Jubilee has already had service disruptions but IHA said  it resulted in less than 10 expectant moms having to be transported to deliver elsewhere.

  Canada

  Nov 10, 2023
  
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• ‘My cheering team’: B.C. mom overcomes addiction, keeps baby with help from hospital

  Joanne Munroe arrived at St. Paul's Hospital in labour in February, and was able to spend the next three weeks there until she could get into a recovery program with housing.

  Health

  May 11, 2023
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• ‘It’s heartbreaking’: B.C.’s midwife shortage claims South Okanagan’s only clinic

  The Penticton-based clinic said it is unable to maintain a midwifery service in the South Okanagan due to a shortage of midwives.

  Feb 11, 2021
• Improved maternity care in the south Okanagan

  The South Okanagan Maternity Centre at Penticton Regional Hospital is now staffed by four doctors and a midwife.

  May 29, 2018
• Middlesex-London Health Unit launches program to help young first-time moms

  Young, first-time mothers are being encouraged to enroll in a new program at the Middlesex-London Health Unit.

  Canada

  May 12, 2017
• Why so many Moms-to-be are turned away from Calgary’s South Hospital

  According to the Department Head of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Calgary, the maternity ward at the South Health Campus is much smaller than the wards at Calgary's three other adult hospitals. "The reality is that it is only half the size it was planned to be," said Dr. Doug Wilson "We had hoped to have a whole new women's health centre with 5,000 deliveries."

  Health

  Apr 8, 2016