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About our maternity care

About our maternity care

At Fiona Stanley Hospital, our maternity services provide safe, high-quality care and a full range of birthing options throughout your pregnancy and birth journey.

Our woman-centred model of care offers gynaecology, maternity and neonatal services to low-risk women and those with complex medical and obstetric issues.

Our services include:

  • outpatient medical and midwifery antenatal clinics
  • inpatient wards
  • birthing suite and induction of labour suite
  • Maternal Fetal Assessment Unit (Ward 3D)
  • Family Birthing Centre and Midwifery Group Practice.

The maternity service has close links with the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit which cares for sick and premature babies.

Complex fetal medicine services, including births under 28 weeks, are not provided at our hospital and will be transferred to King Edward Memorial Hospital (external site).

We are committed to providing general practitioner (GP) shared care, when you care is shared between the hospital and your GP according to the GP shared care guidelines. Please discuss with your doctor if you are suitable for this type of care.

We also offer specialist outpatient consultation and referral to all women in the south metropolitan area with medical conditions including:

  • diabetes in pregnancy requiring insulin management.
  • maternal fetal medicine
  • medical disorders in pregnancy
  • Karri clinic for complex care
  • Aboriginal maternal health program
  • next birth after caesarean.

Although you may have been referred to our hospital and attended our antenatal clinics, increased demand on our maternity unit on any given day may mean you are directed to another maternity hospital. Read more about our bypass practice.

Who can use our services

To receive maternity care at Fiona Stanley Hospital you need to:

  • live in our catchment area – you can find this out by using our postcode guide (Healthy WA)
  • be referred by your general practitioner (GP)

or

  • require tertiary level maternity care which our hospital provides.

Treatment costs

Current Medicare card holders

Medicare eligible public patients in Western Australian public hospitals do not pay for accommodation, surgery, medication and other in-hospital services.

If you have private health insurance with the appropriate level of cover, you can choose whether to be treated as a public or private patient.

As a private patient you are guaranteed no out-of-pocket expense and can access a range of benefits that help make your stay more comfortable. Read more about private patients (external site).

Overseas visitors and students

If you are not eligible for a Medicare card or reciprocal healthcare (external site), you:

  • cannot receive free treatment via Medicare
  • are responsible for the payment of all costs associated with your hospital treatment, unless you hold adequate travel health insurance.

Read more about treatment costs for overseas visitors and students (external site).

If you hold health insurance, you must let the Revenue Department know in order for a maternity cover eligibility check to be conducted.

If your insurance provider does not provide a Guarantee of Payment, stating that they will cover the total estimated cost of your maternity treatment, you will be responsible for prepaying before your due date the amount your insurer will not cover.

If you do not hold a current Medicare card and you have been referred to us for maternity treatment you will be contacted by the Revenue Department.

If you have any questions, please contact the Revenue Department on 6152 7910 or email Fiona Stanley Hospital Revenue

More information

Find out more about our maternity services or return to the Maternity page.

 

Last Updated: 17/04/2025
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