Women and Child Care Services

The Women and Child Care Unit (WCCU) provides care for women and children (up to 17 years of age) in Grey and Bruce Counties. Our multidisciplinary team includes 5 Paediatricians, 5 Obstetrician/Gynecologists, specially trained Registered Nurses, Social Work, support services, Clinical Nutrition and Midwives.

The team on WCCU provides care for approximately 650 births each year. New mothers and their babies are cared for together in the same room after the birth. Outpatient services include a Birth Preparation Clinic, unit tour and Lactation Consultant support.

Our Paediatric team provides care to acutely ill children admitted for medical, surgical, cancer care and occasionally psychiatric reasons. In the Special Care Nursery, the team cares for very sick newborns. There is a mothers’ sleep room available, for a small cost, for the mothers of infants in the nursery who will be going home within a few days.

The WCCU team also cares for women having gynecological surgery that requires a hospital admission.

In the Paediatric Ambulatory Clinic, a regional paediatric service, the Paediatricians and their support services care for children who require specialty outpatient paediatric consultation and clinical care. Clinic visits for children require referral by family physicians, Emergency physicians, Ob/Gyn physicians, and midwives.

This service is available at the following GBHS hospitals:

Owen Sound