Jessie McPherson Private Hospital

Jessie McPherson Private Hospital is located at 246 Clayton Rd, Clayton VIC 3168, providing women with access to state-of-the-art care and facilities for both mother and baby. Their Maternity Unit has a long and proud history of caring for women with both high and low risk pregnancies.

The hospital’s maternity unit is a 19 bed antenatal/postnatal unit with a 6 bed Special Care Nursery for babies who needs intensive care. They have a highly specialised birth and spacious suite, allowing you to have an active birth. Also, they have available baths for water immersion during labour or water births.

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Does Jessie McPherson Private Hospital have visiting private midwives?

UNKNOWN

Does Jessie McPherson Private Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?

UNKNOWN

Does the Jessie McPherson Private Hospital have visiting Obstetricians?

UNKNOWN

Hospital Facilities

Antenatal Beds

19

Birthing Rooms

?

Postnatal Beds

19

Special Care Nursery Beds

6

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 Jessie McPherson Private Hospital have a birth centre?

Maternity Services Tour Video

What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?

Baby-friendly accredited?

Jessie McPherson Private Hospital is not accredited under the global Baby Friendly Health Initiative program.

Jessie McPherson Private Hospital Statistics

PBB is unable to find separate statistics for individual hospitals in Victoria. The following statistics are from Victoria as a whole.

Victoria Hospital Statistics

How a woman’s labour starts influences the chance interventions in labour. If labour starts spontaneously, there is less likelihood of interventions. In addition, 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. Furthermore, please note that Victoria’s statistics did not tell us if spontaneous labour is artificially sped up with medication or breaking of the bag of water. Therefore, this graph’s spontaneous labour includes labours 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.

There’s no available data on How Labour Started in 2015 and 2020. Please contact us if you have access to the statistics for the missing years.

Victoria Hospital Statistics

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 2010 the Cesarean birth rate in Victoria 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.

Victoria Hospital Statistics

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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Date page published 15th November 2024