Mackay Base Hospital
Mackay Base Hospital is located at 475 Bridge Rd, Mackay QLD 4740. Their birth centre is a home-like maternity care facility. It enables families to be involved in planning and enjoy the events of pregnancy and childbirth in a safe, personalised, comfortable setting. The Birth Centre is staffed by professional clinical midwives who work collaboratively as a unit to provide midwifery services.
The hospital has two birthing rooms with ensuite bathrooms, including baths. They offer water births and water immersion during your labour. Mackay Base services include birthing with one to one care from a clinical midwife, and they offer childbirth and parenting education for the expecting couple.
Hospital Address
475 Bridge Rd, Mackay QLD 4740
07 4968 6000
Website Mackay Base Hospital’s services
Mackay Base Hospital Map
Mackay Base Hospital Services
Midwifery Antenatal Clinic
Preparation for Birth Classes
Mackay Base Hospital offers preparation for birth classes.
Caseload Midwifery Practice
A caseload midwifery program is where one or two midwives care for you through pregnancy, birth and beyond. Mackay Base Hospital offers this option.
Publicly funded homebirth program
Mackay Base Hospital does not offer a free homebirth program for low risk women.
Parenting Classes
Mackay Base Hospital offers parenting classes.
Breastfeeding Classes
Mackay Base Hospital does not offer breastfeeding classes.
Does Mackay Base Hospital have visiting private midwives?
NO
Does the Mackay Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?
UNKNOWN
Does the Mackay Hospital have visiting
Obstetricians?
YES
Hospital Facilities
Antenatal Beds
Birthing Rooms
Postnatal Beds
Special Care Nursery Beds
Neonatal Intensive Care Beds
Are there birth pools available for labour and birth?
Is warm water immersion available during labour? YES
Is waterbirth an available option? YES
Can I use an inflatable birth pool? YES
Birth centres are designed to be a home away from home. A birth centre is a separate unit located away from the standard birth unit. Birth centres encompass a philosophy that pregnancy and birth are normal, natural events in the life of a woman and her family.
YES a birth centre is available at this hospital.
Does Mackay Hospital have a birth centre?
Birth Suite Tour Video
Coming soon
What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?
Breastfeeding/lactation clinic? UNKNOWN
Lactation consultants on the postnatal ward? UNKNOWN
Accredited as a baby friendly hospital? YES
Baby-friendly accredited?
Mackay Base Hospital is accredited under the global Baby Friendly Health Initiative program. The hospital supports breastfeeding, and lactation specialist midwives are on-hand to ensure babies are feeding well before going home.
Mackay Base Hospital Statistics
Coming soon
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Date page published 12th June 2022
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