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Overseas visitors check out Selangor Private Hospital

During the Future Birth tour, the team took time out to visit Selangor Private Hospital in Nambour, about an hour north of Brisbane, Queensland. This unit is unique within the private health care system in Australia and also, I believe, within the health care system as a whole. It works on a collaborative model of care between obstetricians and midwives and has long been th leader in offering VBAC, vaginal breech and twin births and birth in water. For a hospital that has no screening, accepts all-comers and has a higher than average “at risk” clientele (because women will travel from all over to be given the chance of a normal birth) they have excellent outcomes.

A report and photographer from the local newspaper joined us and wrote up this article. We should have checked that the report knew how to spell!

Posted by andrea at April 03, 2007 08:23 AM