All New York State Hospitals Now Fully Compliant with WHO Breastfeeding Recommendations
All of New York’s hospitals have now implemented breastfeeding policies that support the World Health Organization recommendations, according to a new study published on July 30, 2015, in Preventing Chronic Disease.
The study reviewed policies from all 129 NY hospitals providing maternity care services. In 2009, none were fully compliant, but by 2013, 97, or 75 percent of the hospitals had compliant hospital breastfeeding policies. And as of April 2014, all 129 hospitals in New York had a fully compliant, approved, written breastfeeding policy in place.