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Los Angeles County Baby-Friendly Hospitals
"10 Baby Friendly Hospitals and Counting....."
Regional Hospital Breastfeeding Consortium Meetings
| Region | SPAs included | Contact person |
| RHBC East | SPA 3 & 4 | Christine Gibson at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
| RHBC North | SPA 1 & 2 | Olga Vigdorchik at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
| RHBC South | SPA 7 & 8 | Marie Gambon at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
The Regional Hospital Breastfeeding Consortium (RHBC) meetings to provide ongoing support and guidance for staff from participating hospitals, This consortium is co-hosted by the Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health.
Resources
- RHBC Resources
- Statewide and hospital-specific breastfeeding data
- Educational materials for nursing staff and healthcare providers
- Education materials for patients
Although 87% of Los Angeles County mothers initiate breastfeeding, only 33% of their babies leave the hospital exclusively breastfeeding. Hospitals play a critical role in a mother’s success in establishing breastfeeding and in helping mothers continue to breastfeed after leaving the facility. Hospital policies can be used as a tool to get breastfeeding off to the best start. The focus of this initiative is to make sure evidence-based policies and practices are in place to support a mother’s choice to breastfeed.
This policy initiative brings together public health officials, hospital administrators, and breastfeeding and quality improvement experts to discuss meaningful ways to create systems change and improve in-hospital breastfeeding policies and practices.