NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health Receives National Safety Sleep Hospital Accreditation from Crib®
August 17, 2023
South Brooklyn Health CEO Svetlana Lipyanskaya with her women’s health team.
NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health today announced that it was recently recognized as a “Gold Safe Sleep Champion” by the Cribs for Kids® National Infant Safe Sleep Initiative. Gold Level certification is the highest level of national safe sleep certification and recognizes South Brooklyn Health’s commitment to reducing sleep-related deaths in infants by: 1) Promote the best and safest sleep practices. 2) Educate the public about sleep safety for young children. 3) establish a safe sleep policy for infants; 4) Model infant safe sleep for the patient. This is his second five-year designation by South Brooklyn Health and represents his decade-long commitment to safe sleep for infants.
“I’m proud of the women’s health teams in South Brooklyn who continue to support safe sleep for infants and continue implementing best practices to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death (SUID),” she said. NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health CEO Svetlana Lipyanskaya. “We know that modeling safe sleep for infants in hospitals and providing education to families has a significant impact on infant mortality.”
“This evaluation reflects the tremendous work that parents are doing to successfully care for their newborns after they leave the hospital,” he said. NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health Director of Maternal and Child Health Nursing Jennifer Tutone. “This valuable partnership will make a huge contribution to safe and healthy neonatal outcomes that are immeasurable.”
We will continue to develop and implement policies, training and family/caregiver education, as well as implement wearable blanket programs, maintain quality improvement efforts through safe sleep audits, and continue to assess and distribute safe sleep spaces. Otherwise, we would not have achieved this milestone. families at risk. At our new Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital, we offer comfortable private rooms for new parents and babies to bond because we believe an intimate and personal childbirth experience is a right, not a privilege. . All of these facilities contribute to the patient care experience and provide superior patient care for all.
For more information on the Cribs for Kids® National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification program, please visit: https://cribsforkids.org/hospitalcertification/
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Media contact: Bridget Ingraham Roberts, (646) 937-2945, ingrahab@nychhc.org
About NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health
NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health and its 371-bed Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital and Health & Wellness Institute are one of the public health system’s 10 acute care campuses, providing general and acute care to adults and children. We provide term care. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital offers state-of-the-art trauma and emergency medicine, general medicine, adult medicine, pediatrics, general surgery, subspecialties of medicine and surgery, coronary care, intensive care, obstetrics and gynecology, and midwifery. We offer inpatient services for primary and acute care. Neonatology, Critical Care Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine, Psychiatry, Behavioral Health. With more than 40 outpatient clinics, the Health & Wellness Institute provides patient- and caregiver-centered primary and specialty care to residents of South Brooklyn and the surrounding area. The hospital is a Certified Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Center, an Advanced Primary Stroke Center, a Certified Baby-Friendly Hospital, a US News & World Report High Performance Hospital, and a SAFE Center of Excellence under the Sexual Assault Reform Act.・Designated as Excellence. Designated AIDS Centers (DAC) and Level 2 Perinatal Centers.
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