{"id":787,"date":"2019-05-08T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/?p=787"},"modified":"2019-05-14T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T22:18:09","slug":"stormont-vail-health-receives-project-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/stormont-vail-health-receives-project-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormont Vail Health Receives Project of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Stormont Vail Health received the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund’s 2018 Janet Sevier Gilbreath Special Project Recognition Award for its Integrating\u00a0Community\u00a0Prenatal\u00a0Breastfeeding\u00a0Support<\/em> project at a May 7 celebration in Hutchinson.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The award, in honor of the Fund’s first Board chair<\/a>, is presented each year to one outstanding project selected by the Board of Directors from among all current funded projects.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Most mothers choose\r\ntheir infant feeding preference prior to delivery. However, current health care\r\npractice provides little direct information and support for breastfeeding\r\nduring prenatal care. In response to this knowledge, Stormont Vail Health staff\r\ndesired to be proactive in providing prenatal breastfeeding education and\r\nresources to expectant mothers as they are making this important decision for\r\ntheir child. The Obstetric Care Nurse Navigator position was created by\r\nStormont Vail Health to lead the expansion of educational services to expectant\r\nmothers and staff at the largest obstetric practice in Shawnee County and at the\r\nlocal health department, where 70% of expectant mothers are Medicaid\r\nrecipients.  The OB Nurse Navigator\r\nposition was created with the expectation of providing prenatal women extensive\r\neducation on the benefits of breastfeeding and information on hospital and\r\ncommunity breastfeeding support resources and to assure continuity of care for these\r\nwomen through the completion of their breastfeeding experience. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Stormont Vail delivers\r\napproximately 2,000 babies annually \u2013 nearly 65% of all births in the region. Through the development of the OB Nurse Navigator position,\r\nthe facility saw exclusive breastfeeding increase from 47% in 2016 to 76% in\r\n2018.  Additionally, exclusive\r\nbreastfeeding rates for mothers previously seen by the Nurse Navigator was 75%\r\nby the end of the grant, which, according to Joint Commission standards, places\r\nStormont Vail Health in the top 10% of all hospitals for breastfeeding best practice.\r\nFurthermore, 88% of all women who delivered at Stormont Vail between January\r\nand June of 2018 initiated breastfeeding while in the hospital (up four percent\r\nfrom the prior year) and 76% of them continued this practice exclusively,\r\noffering no supplemental formula to their infant \u2013 an 8% increase over the\r\nprior year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Stormont Vail OB Nurse Navigator met with expectant mothers at the hospital clinic and at the Shawnee County Health Department.\u00a0 By the completion of the grant, the OB Nurse Navigator had met with 3,436 mothers.\u00a0 There were numerous other contact points which reached a total of 5,760 mothers through prenatal education classes and support provided by community outreach. In addition to supporting these mothers, the OB Nurse Navigator provided 18 breastfeeding educational offerings for staff at the hospital and the health department to further encourage sustainability and support of Stormont\u2019s efforts.\u00a0 The senior leadership of Stormont Vail Health view the Nurse Navigation service as a very important investment for their patients and were committed, from the inception of this grant, to fully sustain this position at the conclusion of the grant. For these accomplishments and for the leadership and service to expectant mothers and their infants, Stormont Vail Health is presented the 2018 Janet Sevier Gilbreath Special Project Recognition award for the work of its Obstetric Care Nurse Navigator program. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Representing the project at the awards ceremony were Karen Copeland, RN, Clinical Nurse Leader; Christy Crawford, RN, Director, Birthplace, Maternal Fetal Medicine and Breastfeeding Center; Libby Averill Rosen, PhD, RN, IBCLC, Professor of Nursing, Baker University – Stormont Vail Campus, and Randy Peterson, recently retired CEO.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stormont Vail Health received the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund’s 2018 Janet Sevier Gilbreath Special Project Recognition Award for its Integrating\u00a0Community\u00a0Prenatal\u00a0Breastfeeding\u00a0Support project at a May 7 celebration in Hutchinson. The award, in honor of the Fund’s first Board chair, is presented each year to one outstanding project selected by the Board of Directors from among …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}