For Hospitals
The Oklahoma State Department of Health with multiple partners has launched “Preparing for a Lifetime, It’s Everyone’s Responsibility,” a statewide initiative to help reduce infant mortality, adverse birth outcomes and racial disparities for such outcomes. The hospital-based activities are being conducted as an integral part of the initiative and include:
- Every Mother Counts (Postpartum Hemorrhage Management)
- Abusive Head Trauma Prevention (Period of Purple Crying Program)
- Oklahoma Breastfeeding Resource Center
- CDC's Work to Support & Promote Breastfeeding in Hospitals, Worksites & Communities
- Texas Ten Step Program: 4-5 minute videos for healthcare staff on each of the 10 Steps for Successful Breastfeeding
- The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
- WIC's Breastfeeding Booklet - The Hospital Experience (Engl)
- WIC's Breastfeeding Booklet - The Hospital Experience (Span)
- Hospital Baby-Friendly Practices Experienced in 2012-PRAMSBrief September 2015
- Hospital Actions Affect Breastfeeding - CDC Vital Signs October-2015
- Hospital Support for Breastfeeding - CDC Vital Signs August-2011
- CDC announces new effort to boost number of Baby-Friendly hospitals - CDC press release 10-13-11
- The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding - CDC (See Action Guides)
- Becoming Baby-Friendly in Oklahoma Project
- Claremore Indian Hospital - Oklahoma's First Baby-Friendly Hospital
- Oklahoma Recognized Breastfeeding Friendly Worksites - 260 sites (as of July 2020)
-
Half of Oklahoma Hospitals Encourage Breastfeeding by Not Giving Free Formula Bags (Feb 4, 2014 news release)
Contact Information
Barbara O'Brien, RN, MS
Program Director
Mailing Address:
Oklahoma State Department of Health
Preparing for a Lifetime
123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Suite 1702
Oklahoma City, OK 73102-6406
Physical Address:
Oklahoma State Department of Health
123 Robert S. Kerr Ave.
Oklahoma City, OK
Phone: (405) 426-8084
Office of Perinatal Quality Improvement
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Department of OB/GYN
800 N.E. 15th Street, ROB 204
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
