State works with hospitals to enhance neighborhood wellness and the well being of mothers, infants
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INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH
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Good Samaritan Medical Heart is one in every of 45 hospitals just lately acknowledged by the Colorado Division of Public Well being and Setting for efforts to advertise breastfeeding and supply more healthy meals and beverage choices by the Colorado Wholesome Hospital Compact and Colorado Child-Pleasant Hospital Collaborative. The initiatives are a part of the state’s work to advertise wholesome consuming and lively dwelling to cut back charges of demise and illness from continual sickness amongst Coloradans.
Good Samaritan Medical Heart was acknowledged on the Gold Stage for the Wholesome Hospital Compact.
DeNae Alva, director of meals and diet companies at Good Samaritan Medical Heart, stated her group has loved partnering with CDPHE on this compact over the previous three years.
“Annually we now have made small modifications to depart a big, lasting influence on our caregivers, sufferers and the neighborhood,” stated Alva.
Because it started in 2014, the Wholesome Hospital Compact has supported hospitals to vary food and drinks choices in hospital cafeterias, merchandising machines and affected person menus.
Good Samaritan is a part of SCL Well being, now Intermountain Well being. Different Intermountain Well being hospitals acknowledged for the Wholesome Hospital Compact program had been St. Mary’s Medical Heart, Platte Valley Medical Heart, Lutheran Medical Heart and Saint Joseph Hospital.
The 5 Intermountain Well being care websites in Colorado had been amongst 41 hospitals with the Rejoice 6 Award of Breastfeeding Excellence. The hospitals have applied at the least six of the Child-Pleasant Hospital Initiative’s Ten Steps to Profitable Breastfeeding. These are confirmed insurance policies and practices recognized to extend breastfeeding success and enhance maternal and toddler well being outcomes.
“These hospitals have labored exhausting to create change that helps Colorado households to breastfeed. With over 90 p.c of Colorado households selecting to breastfeed their kids every year, such insurance policies and practices are important,” stated Stacy Miller, breastfeeding specialist at CDPHE and facilitator of the Colorado Child-Pleasant Hospital Collaborative.
The variety of Child-Pleasant-designated hospitals in Colorado has grown from three in 2013 to 14 in 2023. Good Samaritan has been a Child-Pleasant-designated hospital since 2004.
Be taught extra in regards to the Colorado Wholesome Hospital Compact and the Colorado Child-Pleasant Hospital Initiative at cdphe.colorado.gov/colorado-healthy-hospital-compact and at BreastfeedColorado.com.
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