Soins maternels intensifs (Maternal Intensive Care) en Belgique - KCE

KCE Reports 94 Maternal Intensive Care in Belgium 41
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Among these maternities, 17 have a proportion of their beds registered as MIC-beds.
Table 11 shows that as well the number of M -beds as the proportion of MIC-beds
among the total number of beds varies widely between maternity services.
The total amount of maternity beds per MIC-service varies between 20 and 65 and the
proportion of MIC-beds within these maternities varies between 13.3% and 44.4% of all
M -beds.
Among the MIC-services, 7 are imbedded in a university setting.
All the 17 maternities with MIC-beds have also NIC-beds and are considered as P*
function. Only 2 hospitals are isolated NIC centres (marked in blue) without a
maternity with MIC-beds.
Table 11: Hospitals with MIC- and NIC-services 37
Maternity Town M beds Nic beds Mic beds
Proportion MIC
beds on M beds
Academic
status
710403 UCL Brussel 36 15 16 44.4 yes
710300 U.I.A. Edegem 20 19 8 40.0 yes
710076 C.H.U. St. Pierre Brussel 40 15 15 37.5 no
710322 K.U.L. Leuven 65 35 20 30.8 yes
710077 CHU Brugmann + hôpital des enfants Brussel 30 0 9 30.0 no
710406 Erasme Brussel 27 15 8 29.6 yes
710096 C.H.U. Tivoli La Louvière 28 15 8 28.6 no
710158 C.H. St. Vincent & Ste Elisabeth Rocourt 61 35 16 26.2 no
710670 UZGent Gent 31 32 8 25.8 yes
710009 AZ Middelheim Antwerpen 36 15 8 22.2 no
710049 AZ St. Jan Brugge 38 15 8 21.1 no
710143 VUB Brussel 40 16 8 20.0 yes
710027 C.H. Notre Dame/Reine Fabiola Charleroi 45 18 8 17.8 no
710099 AZ St. Augustinus Wilrijk 49 15 8 16.3 no
710412 C.H.Régional La Citadelle Liège 53 25 8 15.1 yes
710332 C.H. Edith Cavell Brussel 54 15 8 14.8 no
710371 Z.O.L. Genk 60 17 8 13.3 no
710006 C H R NAMUR Namur 40 15 0 0.0 no
710718 C H U CHARLEROI Charleroi 38 15 0 0.0 no
Total number of beds 713 172 24.1
Source: Ministry of Public Health and phone calls with hospital workers (prof. Dr. Spitz)
The 106 maternities totalize 3.200 beds and the maternities with MIC-services have 713
beds. In other words, 22.3 % of all maternity beds are situated within maternities with
MIC-services.
In Belgium, 27.8 % of all deliveries occur in MIC-services. However, among the total
number of beds owned by maternities with MIC-services, only 172 are MIC-beds,
accounting for 5.4% of the total amount of maternity beds.
It is therefore important to keep in mind that the majority of women admitted to MICservices
do not occupy MIC-beds. Unfortunately, data registration is done for the
maternities as a whole, not separately for the MIC- and maternity beds.
The following figure shows the geographical distribution of the hospitals with MICservices
on the Belgian territory. The map shows clearly that the MIC-services are
located in big cities.
37 The abbreviations of the hospitals in our tables and figures come from our database of 2003-2004. Some
of the names of the hospitals have changed as this report is written 4 years later , e.g. VUB= UZ Brussel.