Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center (JSUMC) has been redesignated as a Baby-Friendly Hospital. The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative is a world well being program that promotes evidence-based toddler feeding practices to make sure all households obtain the training and help wanted to fulfill their toddler feeding targets, in the end enhancing the well being of girls and kids in the neighborhood.
This designation is a tribute to our dedication to making sure that each household who delivers a child at our facility is given the assets, info and help wanted to assist them get the very best, healthiest begin in life.”
Ellen Angelo, DNP, MSN, R.N., CCRN, vice chairman and chief nursing officer, JSUMC
This distinguished honor demonstrates that Jersey Shore University Medical Center is adhering to the best requirements of take care of breastfeeding moms and their infants. These requirements are constructed on the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, a set of evidence-based practices beneficial by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for optimum toddler feeding help within the valuable first days of a new child’s life.
“The hospital expertise strongly influences a mom’s skill to start out and proceed breastfeeding,” mentioned Cassandra Leahy, DNP, MSN, RN, IBCLC, scientific program supervisor, BFHI, director of Clinical Services, Center for Breastfeeding, Lactation Services, JSUMC. “We are dedicated to implementing evidence-based care, for everybody who involves our medical middle, to make sure that households delivering right here, who intend to breastfeed, in addition to those that can not or determine to not breastfeed, are totally supported and their toddler feeding alternative is revered.”
“We are extraordinarily proud to be acknowledged for the laborious work of our crew members all through the Baby-Friendly course of in receiving this unique designation. Jersey Shore is one among solely 13 New Jersey hospitals with this designation and the one one in Monmouth and Ocean counties,” mentioned Vito Buccellato, MPA, LNHA, president and chief hospital government, JSUMC. “Our crew is dedicated to offering the help, training and assets households have to efficiently provoke breastfeeding and proceed breastfeeding after they go away our care.”
“Jersey Shore has lengthy been a acknowledged chief within the care of girls and newborns. In reality, that is the third time the tutorial medical middle has obtained this designation, first in 2012, once more in 2017 and now in 2023,” mentioned Kenneth N. Sable, M.D., MBA, FACEP, regional president, Southern Market, Hackensack Meridian Health.
The educational medical middle joins a rising checklist of greater than 20,000 Baby-Friendly hospitals and beginning facilities all through the world, 602 of that are within the United States. These amenities present an setting that helps breastfeeding whereas respecting each girl’s proper to make the very best determination for herself and her household.
Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center in Middlesex County has additionally obtained the Baby-Friendly designation from Baby-Friendly USA. For extra details about providers, go to www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/en/Services/Womens-Health/Maternity-Care.