Longreach Hospital
Longreach Hospital is located at Jabiru St, Longreach QLD 4730. The maternity has different maternity service offerings available. They have Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Maternity Services, access to mental health services during or after your pregnancy, access to physiotherapy, a new parents’ group, and they have available home visiting services after delivery. Additionally, Longreach is known to be a family-friendly hospital and is accredited as a Baby Friendly Health Initiative (BFHI) facility.
The hospital model of maternity care includes combined care, GP obstetrician care, remote area midwifery care, team midwifery care, shared care, and midwifery group practice (MGP) caseload care. Also, if your pregnancy is complicated, high-risk maternity care is available.
Longreach Hospital Map
Longreach Hospital Services
Midwifery Antenatal Clinic
Preparation for Birth Classes
Longreach 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. Longreach Hospital offers this option.
Publicly funded homebirth program
Longreach Hospital does not offer a free homebirth program for low risk women.
Parenting Classes
Longreach Hospital does not offer parenting classes.
Breastfeeding Classes
Longreach Hospital does not offer breastfeeding classes..
Does Longreach Hospital have visiting private midwives?
NO
Does Longreach Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?
YES
Does the Longreach Hospital have visiting Obstetricians?
UNKNOWN
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? 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 Longreach 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?
Longreach 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.
Longreach Hospital Statistics
Coming soon
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Date page published 12th June 2022
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