RPA is one of Australia’s leading hospitals for pregnancy and newborn care.
 

Around 4000 babies are born at RPA each year.   

Our skilled team includes obstetricians, midwives, endocrinologists, allied health professionals and other specialist doctors.  

RPA is a level 6 tertiary referral maternity hospital with a delivery ward, birth centre, dedicated obstetric operating theatre and state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care service and RPA Parent Education Service.  

Our Centre for Women’s Ultrasound and Fetal Medicine is a quarternary referral service for obstetric and gynaecological imaging. The service offers first trimester nuchal translucency screening for aneuploidy, pre-eclampsia and intra-uterine growth restriction. RPA was the first public hospital in Australia to offer non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT).

RPA is a teaching hospital with a focus on research.

Baby Friendly Health Initiative accreditation   

RPA is accredited as a “Baby Friendly” hospital.  

The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) is a joint UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) project that aims to give every baby the best start in life by creating health care environments where breastfeeding is the norm. In Australia, the project is known as the Baby Friendly Health Initiative.  

Diversity and inclusion  

We acknowledge that gender identity is personal and evolving. When the term ‘woman’ is used, this refers to current biological status rather than an individual’s personal identity. Our staff will endeavour to be sensitive and respectful of individual identity. We recognise that the term family may be used to describe biological, cultural and/or chosen social unit or group that an individual shares common and ongoing bonds with.

Did you know?

In 1941, the King George V (KGV) Memorial Hospital for Mothers and Babies was opened by His Excellency, The Governor of NSW The Lord Wakehurst K.C.M.G. An antenatal clinic was established. First Matron Parry Evans was appointed.