DIVERSITY MIDWIVES - HOME BIRTH SEMINAR!
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 5:30-7:30 p.m.
A Free Community Event

Midwives provide individualized care during pregnancy, labor and the postpartum. Midwives are the only birth professionals that offer women the option of giving birth at home or in the hospital. Educate yourself and explore the possibilities of a midwifery supported birth at home.

Location: Scarborough West Community Health Centre-4002 Sheppard Ave. East, Suite 401

Located at the northeast corner of Kennedy Rd and Sheppard Ave. East in Scarborough Please register with your midwife or by calling the practice administrator, Donna Parker @ 416-609-8187

LIMITED SPACE- SO BOOK NOW!

Office Volunteer Needed!

The Scarborough Hospital Maternal Newborn & Child Care Services
Join Our Family Maternity Centre (FMC) Family Advisory Council

Have you ever wanted to influence the development of maternity services and programs in your community? Are you interested in health care and want to ensure the wiser use of scarce health care resources? Do you want to learn more about programs and activities of your local hospital? If so, The Scarborough Hospital has a unique opportunity for you!

The Maternal Newborn & Child Care Services at the Scarborough Hospital are implementing a Family Maternity Centre Family Advisory Council. This council will serve as an advisory resource to administration, physicians, and staff as we plan new mother-baby programs, policies and procedures and the delivery of care.

We are looking for patients and/or family members who have recently delivered their infant at either the Grace or General Campus. You are not required to have any specific background or experience to serve on the Family Advisory Council, but you should meet the following criteria:

• A positive approach and ability to share and see many points of view
• Good listening skills
• Enthusiasm for the hospitals mission of excellence in patient care, education and family-centred care
• Ability to share both positive and negative experiences in a constructive manner
• Ability to communicate and work with families and staff whose backgrounds, experiences and styles may be very different from your own

Patient and family representatives will be asked to participate in an orientation as well as expect to attend six meetings each year. Meeting times will be determined based upon family/patient input.

For more information, please contact Ann MacKinnon, Patient Care Director, Maternal Newborn ∓ Child Care Services at:

Diversity Midwives' Client Committee

Our client committee is made up of present and past clients of Diversity Midwives who are interested in the provision of midwifery care in the greater Scarborough areas. The committee assists midwives at Diversity to maintain a community-based focus to our care by providing a forum for client voices to be heard.

Activities include:

• Organizing reunion picnics and other events where clients and midwives can reconnect.
• Providing a client voice to help shape the future of midwifery at Diversity and elsewhere in the province.
• Helping to lobby government and other stakeholders for improved access to midwifery care in Ontario.
• Assisting midwives with community outreach by coming to events and sharing your experience of midwifery care.

All present and past clients are welcome to attend a committee meeting, share their experience of midwifery care with others like themselves and become involved in our various activities .

If you are interested in participating in the Client Committee, please contact our practice administrator, Donna Parker, at 416-609-8187.

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