Breastfeeding plays a crucial role in the overall health of babies and mothers and demonstrates hospitals\u2019 commitment to improving infant and maternal health.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, through its High 5 for Mom & Baby<\/a> program, is committed to promoting breastfeeding best practices and to supporting hospitals\u2019 efforts to ensure their staff are prepared to support parents\u2019 breastfeeding needs and goals.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Twenty-two Kansas hospitals\u2019 commitment to improving infant and maternal health has earned them recognition through High 5 for Mom & Baby Premier. These facilities follow all ten of the evidence-based High 5 for Mom & Baby practices. This is the largest number of hospitals to earn the highest level of High 5 for Mom & Baby recognition since the program was introduced.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n High 5 for Mom & Baby Premier provides training, resources, and a framework to help Kansas hospitals and birth facilities implement ten evidence-based practices proven to support successful breastfeeding, improving maternal and infant health outcomes while also reducing racial and ethnic health disparities. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n To obtain High 5 for Mom & Baby Premier recognition, each facility must complete a voluntary, self-reported evaluation and follow all ten of the evidence-based High 5 for Mom & Baby practices: <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n For a list of the 18 additional Kansas hospitals that maintain at least five of the evidence-based practices above and are recognized as High 5 for Mom and Baby facilities, visit https:\/\/www.high5kansas.org\/<\/a>. For more information on High 5\u00a0for Mom & Baby, contact Cara Gerhardt, Program Coordinator: coordinator@high5kansas.org<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Breastfeeding plays a crucial role in the overall health of babies and mothers and demonstrates hospitals\u2019 commitment to improving infant and maternal health. The United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, through its High 5 for Mom & Baby program, is committed to promoting breastfeeding best practices and to supporting hospitals\u2019 efforts to ensure their staff are …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-early-childhood-news","tag-high-5-for-mom-baby-premier"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}