Select Committee on Health Minutes of Evidence

Peripheral Unit—Grange Ward—East Hants Community

—  Eight single rooms, four of which can be used as birthing rooms

—  Active birth facilities

—  Water birth facilities

—  140 births in 2002 (32 of which were in water)

—  Transfer rate is 6.25%

—  Parent education on a monthly basis

—  Antenatal drop in sessions every week

—  Breast feeding support group every week

—  Staffed each shift with one midwife and one HCSW

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Prepared 18 June 2003