Forbes Hospital recently became a facility recognized for its efforts to promote and encourage breastfeeding.
The Monroeville hospital was named a Keystone 10 facility, a program developed under the state Department of Health (DOH) to assist birthing hospitals “in implementing evidence-based maternity care practice, with a goal of improving breastfeeding care and rates, and ultimately improving the health of mothers and babies.”
The state DOH partnered with the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics to develop the Keystone 10 initiative, according to its website.
It was modeled after the Texas Ten Step Star Achiever Initiative, which helps hospitals improve policies and processes that affect breastfeeding outcomes.