Kingaroy Hospital is located at 166 Youngman St, Kingaroy QLD 4610. They have a wide range of maternity services, including access to physiotherapy and antenatal classes for parents, helping you strengthen your knowledge about your birth options and more.
The Kingaroy is a family-friendly hospital. Their model of maternity care includes a GP Obstetrician, a Midwifery Group Practice (MGP) caseload, and shared care. For complicated pregnancies, they have high-risk maternity care available. After your birth, the hospital encourages skin-to-skin contact between the baby and the mother. Also, if you are encountering trouble breastfeeding your baby, they will give you lactation advice and support.
Hospital Address
166 Youngman St, Kingaroy QLD 4610
07 4162 9200
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Kingaroy Hospital Map
Kingaroy Hospital Services
Does Kingaroy Hospital have visiting private midwives?
NO
Does Kingaroy Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?
YES
Does the Kingaroy Hospital have visiting Obstetricians?
UNKNOWN
Hospital Facilities
Antenatal Beds
Birthing Rooms
Postnatal Beds
Special Care Nursery Beds
Neonatal Intensive Care Beds
Are there birth pools available for labour and birth?
Birth centres are designed to be a home away from home. A birth centre is a separate unit located away from the standard birth unit. Birth centres encompass a philosophy that pregnancy and birth are normal, natural events in the life of a woman and her family.
Does Kingaroy Hospital have a birth centre?
Birth Suite Tour Video
Coming soon
What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?
Baby-friendly accredited?
Kingaroy Hospital is not accredited under the global Baby Friendly Health Initiative program.
Kingaroy Hospital Statistics
PBB is unable to find separate statistics for individual hospitals in Queensland. The following statistics are from Queensland as a whole.
How a woman’s labour starts influences the chance interventions in labour. If labour starts spontaneously, there is less likelihood of interventions. If a woman has an induction of labour there is an increased chance of further interventions. In the above graph, spontaneous labour refers to labour that starts on its own. Please note that QLD statistics did not tell us if spontaneous labour is artificially sped up with medication or breaking of the bag of water. So spontaneous labour in this graph includes labours that are sped up by medical intervention.
Induction of labour in PBB’s graph refers to one or more of the following interventions used to start labour:
- Artificial rupture of membranes
- Balloon catheter to open the cervix
- Prostaglandins placed in the vagina
- Synthetic oxytocin drug to start or speed up labour
No labour is when a woman has an elective (non-emergency) caesarean before labour starts.
Since 1985, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended countries keep the caesarean birth rate between 10–15% to ensure mortality rates are kept low for mothers and babies (WHO’s last statement update was April 2015). Since 1995 the cesarean birth rate has increased every year across Australia. In 2019 the Cesarean birth rate in the QLD was more than double the WHO recommendation.
A small number of breech babies are born vaginally. Instrumental births include forceps birth and vacuum extraction. The caesarean birth rate includes both elective (planned) and emergency (unplanned) caesarean births.
Please note that even though there is a dramatic increase in interventions in labour and caesarean birth – there is no change in the perinatal death rate.
PBB attained the data in the statistics from the Queensland Government.
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Page updated 4th July 2022
Hello, I will be moving to Kingaroy in the next two months and would like to know if the Kingaroy hospital has a birth centre? I would like to ideally have a home water birth but just checking other options also. Thanks
Hi Teresa – as far as we know, Kingaroy Hospital doesn’t have a birth centre. I’d recommend phoning the hospital and asking to speak to one of the midwives to make sure. If you find out they have a birth centre – we’d love to hear from you to update this page.
Hey,
They do not have a birth centre but do have very new birth suites and some are fitted with birth pools.
They do offer an MGP program for continuity of care but at this stage do not offer home births. There are also no private midwives in Kingaroy offering private home births.
Thank you for sharing this useful info Em.