The California Breastfeeding Coalition is committed to helping California Perinatal Hospitals implement changes related to California Health & Safety Code 123367. The Health & Safety Code 123367 requires all general acute care hospitals and special hospitals with perinatal units to adopt, by January 1, 2025, The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, as adopted by Baby-Friendly USA, per the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, or an alternate process adopted by a health care service plan that includes evidenced-based policies and practices and targeted outcomes, or the Model Hospital Policy Recommendations.

Learning Webinars – On-Demand Viewing

Each session offers expert information, showcase of successful hospital practices, facilitated shared learning and state-of-the-art resources. Staff/leadership encouraged to attend and review webinar recordings: Quality improvement; Supervisory Perinatal/Maternal/ LDRP/Newborn/NICU; Lactation Specialist; Safety and Quality; Educators; Outpatient/ Ambulatory; Triage.

To view recorded webinars, click on the webinar titles below. 

Mandatory California Hospital Infant Feeding Policy and Practice: Is Your Hospital on Track?

Date: July 21, 2022

Does your hospital infant-feeding policy meet current standards? How well do all your hospital staff adhere to the policy?

Objectives for this webinar: 

1. Evaluate and update your hospital infant feeding policy using California Model Hospital Policy and WHO Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative guidelines and criteria.
2. Identify key components of successful infant feeding policy implementation including staff adherence.
3. Explore best practices in infant feeding policy continuous quality improvement.

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Continuing Education: The California WIC Association is offering units for RN (RN Contact Hours) & IBCLCs (CERPs). Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing Number CEP 16525. Provider approved by the IBCLE, Long Term Provider Number CLT 115-01. 1.0 CH/1.0 L-CERP/1.0 CPEU being finalized.

Once you have watched the webinar recording, please fill out and submit the webinar evaluation form to receive a printable certificate of attendance. 

 

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Family Centered Culturally Responsive Implementation of Hospital Breastfeeding Care Practices

Date: August 12, 2021

Objectives for this webinar:

1. Identify essential elements of sensitive family-centered and culturally responsive counseling that consider a patient’s social, cultural, and/or health related circumstances.
2. Learn how hospitals can work with “Community Liaison” and other strategies to strengthen patient access to appropriate community care.
3. Discuss ways to use breastfeeding performance measures to improve outcomes, care equity and patient satisfaction.

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Implementing Skill-Based Breastfeeding Competency Training

Date: August 5, 2021

Objectives for this webinar:

1. Summarize breastfeeding competencies as defined by current Baby-Friendly and California Model Policy guidance.
2. Identify effective ways to implement and validate skills-based competencies.
3. Learn steps and resources for developing and implementing a sustainable hospital training plan.

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Breastfeeding Metrics: Core Measures and Performance Planning

Date: July 29, 2021

Objectives for this webinar:

1. Explain core and expanded breastfeeding metrics.
2. Identify potential data measures for Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) performance improvement.
3. Learn how other hospitals are addressing barriers using data.

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Why Baby-Friendly Designation Matters for California: The Countdown to 2025

Date: April 27, 2021

The webinar includes an educational session and hospital collaborative roundtable discussion. 

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What is Baby-Friendly?

The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) is a global program sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and implemented in the United States by Baby-Friendly USA, Inc. (BFUSA). The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative recognizes and awards birthing facilities which successfully implement the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding and the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes. 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.

Hospitals play a critical role in a mother’s success in breastfeeding initiation and in helping mothers continue to breastfeed after leaving their facilities. The BFHI focus is to make sure evidence-based maternity policies and practices are in place to support mothers who breastfeed their babies. Data shows that when the BFHI is implemented, exclusive breastfeeding rates increase overall, regardless of a mother’s race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.

In addition, the Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding (2011) includes a call to improve maternity care practices. The Specifications Manual for Joint Commission National Quality Core Measures also includes an “Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding” Performance Measure.

California leads the nation with 91 hospitals and birth centers achieving the prestigious Baby-Friendly Hospital designation. We are proud to recognize these outstanding health care facilities for their commitment to world class maternity care.

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California’s Baby-Friendly Hospitals:

• Adventist Health Lodi Memorial, Lodi, (10/2014) Re-Designated 2019-2024
• Adventist Health Simi Valley, Simi Valley, (03/2016) Re-Designated 2022-2027
• Adventist Health Sonora, Sonora, 02/2020
• Adventist Health White Memorial, Los Angeles, 04/2015
• Adventist Medical Center – Hanford, Hanford, 12/2019
• Alameda Health System-Highland Hospital, Oakland, (02/12) Re-Designated 2017-2022
• Antelope Valley Medical Center, Lancaster, (04/2015) Re-Designated 2020-2025
• Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Colton, (2009) Re-Designated 2019-2024
• Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, Bakersfield, (05/2016) Re-Designated 2022-2027
• Barstow Community Hospital, Barstow, (2007) Re-Designated 2018-2023
• Beverly Hospital, Montebello, 11/2016
• Community Hospital of San Bernardino, San Bernardino, (2007) Re-Designated 2018-2023
• Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey, (2004) Re-Designation 2019-2024
• Community Memorial Hospital-San Buenaventura, Ventura, 08/2018 
• Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, Martinez, 01/2020 
• Corona Regional Medical Center, Corona, (2005) Re-Designation Pending
• Desert Regional Medical Center, Palm Springs, (2010) Re-Designated 2015-2020
• Dignity Health-Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz, (03/2012) Re-Designated 2017-2022
• East Los Angeles Doctors Hospital, Los Angeles, 12/2014
• El Camino Hospital Los Gatos, Los Gatos, 05/2017
• Emanate Health Queen of the Valley Hospital, West Covina, 10/2017
• Enloe Medical Center, Chico, (10/11) Re-Designation Pending
• Fountain Valley Regional Hospital, Fountain Valley, 12/2019
• French Hospital Medical Center, San Luis Obispo, (2012) Re-Designated 2017-2022
• George L. Mee Memorial Hospital, King City, 05/2019
• Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, (04/2012) Re-Designated 2017-2022
• Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, Los Angeles, (04/2014) Re-Designated 2019-2024
• Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, (12/2016) Re-Designation Pending
• John Muir Health-Walnut Creek Campus, Walnut Creek, 05/2019
• Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, 05/2019
• LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, (04/12) Re-Designated 2017-2022
• LAC Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, (07/11) Re-Designated 2021-2026
• Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, Loma Linda, (2009) Re-Designated 2019-2024
• Marin General Hospital, Greenbrae, 02/2017
• Marshall Medical Center, Placerville, (07/2015) Re-Designated 2020-2025
• Martin Luther Kink, Jr. Community Hospital, Los Angeles 12/21
• Mercy General Hospital, Sacramento, 02/2019
• Mercy Hospital of Folsom, Folsom, 06/2018 
• Mercy San Juan Medical Center, Carmichael, 05/2018 
• Mercy Southwest Hospital, Bakersfield, 09/2016
• Methodist Hospital of Sacramento, Sacramento, 09/2017
• Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach, Long Beach, 04/2018
• Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, Burlingame, 05/2020
• Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center, Mission Viejo, 07/2012
• Natividad Medical Center, Salinas, (01/2013) Re-Designated 2018-2023
• NorthBay Medical Center, Fairfield, (08/14) Re-Designated 2019-2024
• Northern Inyo Hospital, Bishop, 09/2018 
• Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Northridge, (11/2016) Re-Designation Pending
• Parkview Community Hospital, Riverside, (10/11) Re-Designated 2016-2021
• Petaluma Valley Hospital, Petaluma, (12/2015) Re-Designated 2020-2025
• PIH Health Good Samaritian Hospital, Los Angeles, (06/2016) 
• Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, Pomona, (03/2014) Re-Designated 2019-2024
• Riverside Community Hospital, Riverside, (05/2012) Re-Designated 2017-2022
• Riverside University Health System-Medical Center, Moreno Valley, 05/2015  Re-Designation Pending
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, 01/2017
• Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, December 2017
• Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System, Salinas, (07/11) Re-Designated 2022-2027
• San Antonio Community Hospital, Upland, (2008) Re-Designated 2018-2023
• San Joaquin General Hospital, French Camp, 04/2016 Re-Designation Pending
• Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, 04/2018
• Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Santa Clara, 01/2019
• Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital, Santa Monica, 06/2018
• Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas, Encinitas, (2004) Re-Designated 2019-2024
• Sierra View Medical Center, Porterville, 08/2016
• Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, San Luis Obispo, 04/2017
• St. Bernardine Medical Center, San Bernardino, (2010) Re-Designation Pending
• St. Francis Medical Center, Lynwood, (10/2014) Re-Designated 2019-2024
• St. Joseph Hospital, Orange, (2009) Re-Designated 2019-2024
• St. Joseph’s Medical Center of Stockton, Stockton, (03/2012) Re-Designation Pending
• St. Jude Medical Center, Fullerton, (07/2011) Re-Designation Pending
• St. Louise Regional Hospital, Gilroy, 11/2017
• St. Mary Medical Center Long Beach, Long Beach, (03/15) Re-Designation Pending
• Sutter Amador Hospital, Jackson, 05/2018
• Sutter Davis Hospital, Davis, (2008) Re-Designated 2018-2023
• Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center, Santa Cruz, (03/12) Re-Designated 2017-2022
• Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, Sacramento, (03/12) Re-Designated 2017-2022
• Tahoe Forest Hospital, Truckee, (2010) Re-Designation Pending
• Torrance Memorial Medical Center, Torrance, 06/2018 
• Twin Cities Community Hospital, Templeton, (06/2015) Re-Designated 2020-2025
• UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, 04/2020 
• UC Irvine Medical Center, Orange, 11/2017
• UC San Diego Health Hillcrest-Hillcrest Medical Center, San Diego, (2006) Re-Designated 2016-2021
• UC San Diego LaJolla-Jacobs Medical Center, La Jolla, (04/18) Re-Designated 2018-2023
• Ventura County Medical Center, Ventura, (2003) Re-Designated 2018-2023
• Ventura County Medical Center Santa Paula Hospital, Santa Paula, (2003) Re-Designated 2018-2023
• Washington Hospital Healthcare System, Fremont, (02/14) Re-Designated 2019-2024
• Watsonville Community Hospital, Watsonville, 05/2018
• Weed Army Community Hospital, Fort Irwin, (1998) Re-Designation Pending
• Woodland Memorial Hospital, Woodland, (2010) Re-Designated 2020-2025
• Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, (2007) Re-Designated 2018-2023