Overview
Ballarat Health Services – Women’s & Children’s Services provides a continuum of care for women, children and their families encompassing pregnancy, birthing, early parenting and childhood from the neonatal to adolescent years. These services are provided by our Maternity and Paediatric & Adolescent Units.
Client-centered, best-practice service provision is facilitated by actively engaging consumers in planning and decision making, fostering partnerships with community groups and stakeholders, and providing evidence based resources.
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Director of Nursing Women’s & Children’s Services |
Clinical Director of Women’s and Children’s Health |
Nurse Unit Manager Clinical Services |
Nurse Unit Manager Ambulatory Services |
Maternity Unit Location: 5th Floor Henry Bolte Wing Ballarat Health Services
The Maternity Unit is comprised of:
- 5 Birthing rooms
- 20 In-patient beds, including 2 with private patient facilities
- Level 2 High Dependency Special Care Nursery which 8 Cot capacity
- 9 Antenatal clinic rooms
- 1 Ultrasound room
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1 Education room.
Inpatient services :
- Labour and birthing service
- Antenatal & Postnatal admissions
- Level 2 High Dependency Special Care Nursery
- Breast Feeding Day Stay
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Maternity Day Assessment Unit
Outpatient Services:
- Booking-in Service
- Antenatal Clinics
- Consultant medical clinics
- Midwives Clinic
- Primary Midwifery Care Program Clinic
- Diabetic service
- Anaesthetic preadmission service
- Continence service
- Outpatient Antenatal Assessment (Triage)
- Antenatal Education Sessions (Evening & Day Sessions)
- Infant Massage
- Domiciliary Postnatal Service
- Parenting Support Service – Family Services Innovation Project (funded separately)
Models of Care:
Primary Maternity Models
- Shared Care with General Practitioners
- Midwives Clinic
Secondary Maternity Models
- Consultant Antenatal clinics
- Maternity Day Assessment Unit
Continuity of Care Models
- Private Obstetric Care
- Primary Midwifery Care Program
- Indigenous Women’s Health Midwife
