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REFERRING DOCTORS
ABOUT THE FPMS
The Family Practice Maternity Service (FPMS) was
formed by a dedicated group of family doctors with the purpose
of providing sustainable, holistic, family-centred maternity
care within the model of Family Practice. We offer primary
maternity care or consultations. We support the ongoing relationship
between the childbearing woman and her Family Practitioner
in the community. Patients may be referred at any stage of
pregnancy. In the early postpartum period patients are referred
back to their family doctors along with timely transfer of
records.
OUR GOALS
- To be a model of exemplary Family Practice maternity care.
- To promote and strengthen maternity
care within the discipline of Family Practice.
- To advance knowledge in Family Practice
maternity care.
- To provide women access to Family
Practice maternity care.
- To provide referral maternity services
for doctors who no longer practice obstetrics.
- To address the maternity care needs
of specialized populations who have difficulty accessing
services.
- To provide educational training
and mentoring for medical students, residents and other
health workers in Family Practice maternity care.
- To ensure high standards of care
through continuing education, evidence-based practice, best
practices, and quality management.
- To promote a team approach to providing
care within the FPMS physician group and with other care
providers.
SERVICES OFFERED
- Prenatal Care: Referrals
can be made at any time. An early referral is appreciated
for meeting and registering patients. Ongoing prenatal care
can be provided entirely by the FPMS or can be shared with
the referring doctor. Let us know your preference.
- Labour and Delivery
- Postpartum Care
in hospital for mother and baby
- Immediate Outpatient Postpartum
Care after discharge
- Referral Back to Community
Family Physician
- Consultation or Transfer
of Care for Patients with Addictions See Our
Programs or Who We Are Page...
STRUCTURE OF OUR CARE
- Patients are referred to one FPMS
doctor as their primary care maternity doctor.
- Prenatal care occurs in the Ambulatory
Care Clinic at BCWH or occasionally in a private physician’s
office when the scheduling dictates.
- Health concerns not related to the
pregnancy continue to be treated by the community Family
Physician.
- Labour, delivery, and emergency care
is shared by the FPMS doctors who work in 24 hour dedicated
shifts. Two FPMS doctors on call at all times.
- Meet the Doctors Night is an informal
meeting where patients meet all the doctors in the on-call
group while discussing issues related to labour and delivery.
- Postpartum care in hospital is shared
by the group.
- After discharge mother and baby
are referred back to the community Family Physician within
1-6 weeks.
- A summary of the pregnancy, birth,
and postpartum care is faxed to the referring doctor within
a few days of discharge from hospital.
- A dictated Delivery Report follows.
OUR PROGRAMS
- Traditional Care:
one to one prenatal care in a clinic setting.
- Centering Pregnancy:
Prenatal care combined with prenatal education in a group
with an FPMS doctor held at BCWH. See Your
Journey or www.centeringpregnancy.com
- Youth Pregnancy and Parenting
Program: Some of our doctors provide care to young
mothers in the YPPP program located at Evergreen Community
Health Center. Learn
more about YPPP...
- Perinatal Addictions Clinic:
Complete pregnancy care for women with current or past problems
with substance use in the clinic at BCWH.
- Sheway: Some of
our doctors work at Sheway, a clinic located on the downtown
east side, which provides care to women who are pregnant
with current or past substance use. Learn
more…
- Consultation for Physicians
Caring for Substance Using Pregnant Women: The
doctor on call for the Perinatal Addictions Service will
be happy to discuss issues of perinatal addictions with
physicians throughout the province. We support care in her
own community as optimal but can arrange for patient transfer
to BC Women’s Hospital where appropriate. Contact
us...
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Holistic, woman and family centred, up-to-date, team approach,
supporting multicultural diversity, continuity within the
group and with referring doctors. Read
more on our philosophy...
CONTACT US
For more information or
referral forms
RESOURCES:
Pregnancy related information for you or your patients.Read
more...
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