NYS Breastfeeding Quality Improvement in Hospitals: Improving Care and Outcomes for New York’s Mothers and Babies

Presenters:

Jennifer Ustianov, MS, BSN, RN, IBCLC, National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) Senior Project Director, New York State Breastfeeding Quality Improvement in Hospitals
Yogangi Malhotra, MD, Attending Neonatologist Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital
Sabrina Nitkowski-Keever, RN-C, MSN, Director, Maternal and Child Health NewYork-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital
Sara Bonam Welge, MS, RD, CDN, Manager, Breastfeeding and Early Childhood Initiatives New York State Department of Health

At the conclusion of the presentation, the participants will be able to:

Recognize the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding as the foundation for improvement in hospital maternity care practices.
Identify two important steps that interested hospitals can take to begin preparing for participation in the NYS Breastfeeding Quality Improvement in Hospitals Learning Collaborative.
Describe hospital benefits derived from participating in the NYS Breastfeeding Quality Improvement in Hospitals Learning Collaborative and adopting the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding as the standard of care.

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“Hospital leaders, providers and staff play a vital role in promoting and supporting women to be successful in exclusively breastfeeding their newborn infants. In New York State (NYS), 83.8% of healthy newborns were fed (any) breast milk during their birth hospitalization, which exceeds the Healthy People 2020 goal of at least 82%. However, the percentage of healthy infants who were exclusively fed breast milk was only 40.6%, which was significantly below the Healthy People 2020 goal of at least 70%. It is important to improve these statistics because: 1. Breastfeeding, especially exclusive breastfeeding, reduces the risk of asthma, gastroenteritis, obesity, respiratory infections, and chronic conditions. 2. For mothers, breastfeeding for a minimum of one year has been shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and multiple other conditions. 3. Breastfeeding rates diminish post-hospital discharge and over time. 4. Breastfeeding can help address health disparities; women of color have lower rates of breastfeeding initiation and are more likely to switch to formula within 6 months. This webinar will orient participants to NY’s flagship hospital breastfeeding strategy, the New York State Breastfeeding Quality Improvement in Hospitals (NYS BQIH) Learning Collaborative. The webinar will also: review the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding and its application in hospital quality improvement; identify important considerations in planning for hospital participation in BQIH; and share two hospitals’ perspectives on their BQIH experience.”

Objectives/Learner's achievement of each objective
As a result of this educational activity, I am able to:

Recognize the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding as the foundation for improvement in hospital maternity care practices. *

Identify two important steps that interested hospitals can take to begin preparing for participation in the NYS Breastfeeding Quality Improvement in Hospitals Learning Collaborative. *

Describe hospital benefits derived from participating in the NYS Breastfeeding Quality Improvement in Hospitals Learning Collaborative and adopting the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding as the standard of care. *

Presenters

Presenter 1
Jennifer Ustianov, MS, BSN, RN, IBCLC, National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) Senior Project Director, New York State Breastfeeding Quality Improvement in Hospitals

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Teaching strategies were appropriate for topic *

Teaching by this presenter was effective *

Presenter 2
Yogangi Malhotra, MD, Attending Neonatologist Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital

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Teaching by this presenter was effective *

Presenter 3
Sabrina Nitkowski-Keever, RN-C, MSN, Director, Maternal and Child Health NewYork-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital

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Teaching strategies were appropriate for topic *

Teaching by this presenter was effective *

Presenter 4
Sara Bonam Welge, MS, RD, CDN, Manager, Breastfeeding and Early Childhood Initiatives New York State Department of Health

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Teaching by this presenter was effective *

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