Mount Isa Hospital

Mount Isa Hospital

Mount Isa Hospital is located at 30 Camooweal St, Mount Isa QLD 4825. They offer quality women and family centred care for both public and private patients. Several options for your maternity care are available, including private care with an obstetrician, obstetric care by a hospital doctor, midwifery care by a hospital midwife, and midwifery group practice. The hospital’s maternity unit has 3 birthing suites, an assessment room, an 8-bed antenatal/postnatal ward, and a special care nursery for babies needing extra care.

Midwifery Antenatal Clinic

Mount Isa Hospital has a midwifery-run antenatal clinic.

Preparation for Birth Classes

Mount Isa 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. Mount Isa Hospital offers this option.

Publicly funded homebirth program

Mount Isa Hospital does not offer a free homebirth program for low risk women.

Parenting Classes

PBB is unsure if Mount Isa Hospital offers parenting classes.

Breastfeeding Classes

PBB is unsure if Mount Isa Hospital offers breastfeeding classes.

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Does Mount Isa Hospital have visiting private midwives?

NO

Does Mount Isa Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?

UNKNOWN

Does the Mount Isa Hospital have visiting Obstetricians?

YES

Hospital Facilities

Antenatal Beds

8

Birthing Rooms

3

Postnatal Beds

8

Special Care Nursery Beds

?

Neonatal Intensive Care Beds

?

Are there birth pools available for labour and birth?

Is warm water immersion available during labour? UNKNOWN

Is waterbirth an available option? UNKNOWN

Can I use an inflatable birth pool? UNKNOWN

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.

NO a birth centre is not available at this hospital.

Does Mount Isa 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? NO

Baby-friendly accredited?

Mount Isa Hospital is not accredited under the global Baby Friendly Health Initiative program.

Mount Isa Hospital Statistics

Coming soon

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Date page published 28th June 2022

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