{"id":62789,"date":"2015-04-23T14:27:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T21:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=62789"},"modified":"2015-04-27T22:38:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T05:38:50","slug":"av-hospital-receives-baby-friendly-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/04\/23\/av-hospital-receives-baby-friendly-designation\/","title":{"rendered":"AV Hospital receives baby-friendly designation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AVH<\/a>LANCASTER \u2013 Baby-Friendly USA, Inc., the accrediting body of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in the United States, has designated Antelope Valley Hospital as a Baby-Friendly birth facility. This designation means that AV Hospital has met the gold standard in maternity care operations.<\/p>\n

Currently there are 256 active Baby-Friendly hospitals and birth centers in the United States.<\/p>\n

The BFHI is a global program that was launched by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund in 1991 to encourage and recognize hospitals and birthing centers that offer an optimal level of care for infant feeding and mother\/baby bonding.<\/p>\n

It recognizes and awards birthing facilities that successfully implement the \u201cTen Steps to Successful Breastfeeding\u201d and the \u201cInternational Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.\u201d The BFHI assists hospitals in giving all mothers the information, confidence and skills necessary to successfully initiate and continue breastfeeding their babies or feeding formula safely, and gives special recognition to hospitals that have done so.<\/p>\n

The \u201cBaby-Friendly\u201d designation is based on a rigorous on-site survey and must be maintained by following specific quality processes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so proud of the progress made over the last two and a half years and the hard work of our staff at the Women and Infants Pavilion, OB clinics and pediatrics unit in implementing the ten steps to successful breastfeeding,\u201d stated AV Hospital CEO Dennis Knox. \u201cWe are proud to have attained the Baby-Friendly designation, which is aimed at improving the health and well-being of mothers and babies in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

To prepare for the designation process, AV Hospital participated in the Best Fed Beginnings initiative, which is a program of the National Institute for Children\u2019s Health Quality and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Best Fed Beginnings was a first-of-its-kind, nationwide quality improvement initiative to help a select group of 89 hospitals across the country improve maternity care and increase the number of Baby-Friendly designated hospitals in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cAligning our policies and practices with the World Health Organization\u2019s Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative was an essential element for moving toward a maternity care system that women and families deserve,\u201d stated Andrea Randenberg, director of AV Hospital\u2019s Women, Infant, and Pediatric Services. \u201cPromoting and supporting exclusive breastfeeding is central to our vision for a high-quality, high-value maternity care system at AVH.\u201d<\/p>\n

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LANCASTER \u2013 Baby-Friendly USA, Inc., the accrediting body of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in the United States, has designated Antelope Valley Hospital as a Baby-Friendly birth facility. This designation means that AV Hospital has met the gold standard in maternity care operations. Currently there are 256 active Baby-Friendly hospitals and birth centers in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}