{"id":586823,"date":"2026-04-06T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/586823\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:20:07","slug":"white-rock-hospital-set-for-10-maternity-diversion-since-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/586823\/","title":{"rendered":"White Rock hospital set for 10 maternity diversion since December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              White Rock hospital set for 10 maternity diversion since December<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 3:00 pm Monday, April 6, 2026<\/p>\n<p>A White Rock hospital is set for its <a href=\"https:\/\/peacearchnews.com\/2026\/03\/24\/white-rock-hospital-set-for-9th-maternity-diversion-since-december\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">10th maternity diversion since December<\/a> \u2014 this time, while a maternity diversion is also in place for Ridge Meadows Hospital in Maple Ridge.<\/p>\n<p>While the \u2018temporary\u2019 maternity diversions have been happening since December of last year at Peace Arch and Ridge Meadows hospitals, they have previously, only happened at one hospital at a time.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Peace Arch Hospital\u2019s maternity will shutter starting Tuesday, April 7 at 8 a.m. and go until Tuesday, April 14 at 8 a.m., while Ridge Meadows\u2019 maternity is still on diversion until 8 a.m. Friday, April 10.<\/p>\n<p>Expecting parents in South Surrey, White Rock and Maple Ridge \u201cmay be guided to another maternity site to deliver their baby,\u201d according to a Fraser Health website.<\/p>\n<p>Maternity diversions have been happening at both Peace Arch and Ridge Meadows hospitals since last December due to a \u2018temporary\u2019 shortage of obstetrician-gynecologists, according to Fraser Health.<\/p>\n<p>Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of B.C. president Dr. Chelsea Elwood said the <a href=\"https:\/\/peacearchnews.com\/2026\/03\/16\/top-doc-says-b-c-is-in-crisis-when-it-comes-to-maternity-gynaecological-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">entire province is \u201cabsolutely\u201d in a crisis<\/a> when it comes to obstetrical and gynecological services, but B.C.\u2019s health minister Josie Osborne has declined answering whether the ongoing diversions constitute a crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Maternity diversions at Peace Arch Hospital since Dec. 7, 2025 include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Dec. 7 to 10, 2025<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Dec. 22 to 25, 2025<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Dec. 29, 2025, to Jan. 1, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Jan. 8 to Jan. 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Jan. 22 to Jan. 26, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Feb. 5 to Feb. 10, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Feb. 19 to Feb. 25, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 March 12 to March 18, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 March 25 to March 31, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 April 7 to April 14, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White Rock hospital set for 10 maternity diversion since December Published 3:00 pm Monday, April 6, 2026 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-586823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}