Calvary John James Hospital is located at 173 Strickland Cres, Deakin ACT 2600. The maternity hospital designed their birthing suites emphasising comfort and offering a relaxing, and comfortable environment in which to have your baby. They actively encourage the partner and/or support person to be involved in your care throughout labour, birth and beyond. Also, overnight accommodation is available for your partner/support person.
Hospital Address
173 Strickland Cres, Deakin ACT 2600
(02) 6281 8100
Website Calvary John James Hospital
Hospital’s Map
Calvary John James Hospital Services
Does Calvary John James Hospital have visiting private midwives?
NO
Does Calvary John James Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?
UNKNOWN
Does Calvary John James 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?
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.
Does Calvary John James Hospital have a birth centre?
Birth Suite Tour Video
What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?
Baby-friendly accredited?
Calvary John James Hospital is not a baby-friendly accredited. But, the hospital supports breastfeeding, and lactation specialist midwives are on-hand to offer support and help to mothers who experience feeding lactation difficulties.
Calvary John James Hospital Statistics
PBB is unable to find separate statistics for individual hospitals in the ACT. The following statistics are from the ACT as a whole.
How a woman’s labour starts influences the chance interventions in labour. If labour starts spontaneously, there is less likelihood of interventions. If a woman has an induction of labour there is an increased chance of further interventions. In the above graph, spontaneous labour refers to labour that starts on its own. Please note that ACT statistics did not tell us if spontaneous labour is artificially sped up with medication or breaking of the bag of water. So spontaneous labour in this graph includes labours that are sped up by medical intervention.
Induction of labour in PBB’s graph refers to one or more of the following interventions used to start labour:
- Artificial rupture of membranes
- Balloon catheter to open the cervix
- Prostaglandins placed in the vagina
- Synthetic oxytocin drug to start or speed up labour
No labour is when a woman has an elective (non-emergency) caesarean before labour starts.
Since 1985, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended countries keep the caesarean birth rate between 10–15% to ensure mortality rates are kept low for mothers and babies (WHO’s last statement update was April 2015). Since 1995 the cesarean birth rate has increased every year across Australia. In 2019 the Cesarean birth rate in the ACT was more than double the WHO recommendation.
A small number of breech babies are born vaginally. Instrumental births include forceps birth and vacuum extraction. The caesarean birth rate includes both elective (planned) and emergency (unplanned) caesarean births.
Please note that even though there is a dramatic increase in interventions in labour and caesarean birth – there is no change in the perinatal death rate.
PBB attained the data in the statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
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Page first published 22nd January 2022
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