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Home Birth Supplies Program

The Home Birth Supplies Program is a standardized provincial program for all care providers attending home births to access supplies, medications, and sterilization (reprocessing) services. The program also integrates home birth services into health authority and provincial planning through an improved data collection process.


Home Birth Supplies Program signing authority:


Fraser Health Authority

Interior Health Authiorty

Northern Health authority

Provincial Health Services Authority - C & W

Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

  • Linda Knox - Head, Regional Department of Midwifery

Vancouver Island Health Authority

  • Trapper Edison - Clinical Director of Pediatrics, Neonatal, Perinatal & Women's Health



Home Birth Supplies Program Advisory Committee:


BC College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM)

  • Stephanie McDonnell - Policy Consultant

Fraser Health Authority

  • Dina Davison - Co-Regional Division Head of Midwifery
  • Heather Mash - Director, Clinical Operations
  • Jan Nusche - Co-Regional Division Head of Midwifery
  • Rachael Catalano - Coordinator, Quality Improvement

Interior Health Authority

  • Julie McRae - Network Director, Maternal and Child Health
  • Tanya Momtazian - Lead, HBSP Midwifery

Midwives Association BC (MABC)

  • Charlotte Morrison - Research Program Manager
  • Kristen Ash - Executive Director

Ministry of Health

  • Manna Saunders - Senior Policy Analyst
  • Zoe Hodgson - Clinical and Policy Lead, Midwives

Northern Health Authority

  • Celina Laursen - Midwifery Lead
  • Rachel Wardle - Head Division of Midwifery University Hospital of Northern BC
  • Vanessa Salmons - Executive Lead, Primary Health Care

Perniatal Services BC

  • Ellen Giesbecht - Provincial Medical Director
  • Lisa Sutherland - Lead Midwifery
  • Shauna McNutt - Project Coordinator

Provincial Health Services Authority - C & W

  • Anne Margaret Leigh - Senior Program Director
  • Beth Duncan - Assistant Department Head & Quality Lead
  • Carole Miceli - Head, BCWH Department of Midwifery

Providence Health Authority

  • Amy Hamill - Program Director, Pregnancy, Birthing, Newborn & NICU

Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

  • Linda Knox - Head, Regional Department of Midwifery

Vancouver Island Health Authority

  • Shannon Cross - Leader of Regional Perinatal & Newborn Program Development

  • Trapper Edison - Clinical Director of Pediatrics, Neonatal, Perinatal & Women's Health

  • Yarra Vostrcil - Midwifery Department Head and Medical Director, Perinatal Medical Co-Lead, Comox Valley Hospital

 

PDC Customer Service: 

Phone: 604-927-2286
or toll free: 1800 988-1155
Fax: 604-941-6632
Email: PDCCustomerSer@gov.bc.ca 


Updates:

October 2024

Bulletins


April 2020

Faxing customer support
  • Please be advised that PDC customer support will no longer be able to monitor and receive faxes as they are working remotely.  They request that you send them email attachments instead.  
  • Please note that faxes for pharmacy orders by midwives will still be received by the PDC pharmacy team.



SOURCE: Home Birth Supplies Program ( )
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