Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital in Weston, WV, earns 'Child-Pleasant' certification | WV Information

WESTON — A neighborhood hospital lately earned the extremely prestigious “Child-Pleasant” designation. Following a rigorous evaluation course of carried out by Child-Pleasant USA, the group liable for bestowing this designation, Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital in Weston obtained the certification.

The Child-Pleasant designation signifies that Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital efficiently makes use of evidence-based practices to make sure the well being of each mom and child throughout being pregnant and after.

The coveted designation was celebrated on Tuesday, Dec. 10, with a reception within the SJMH boardroom. The hospital is amongst greater than 500 within the US to earn the designation, and solely the fifth one to earn it in West Virginia.

The challenge was a five-year effort led by the Particular Supply Unit Supervisor Robin Drake. Workers from Mountaineer Healthcare for Ladies additionally labored to implement the requirements supplied by the Child-Pleasant USA group. Throughout a really complete evaluation for SJMH, the employees was elated to search out that they’d obtained the designation with none issues.

In keeping with Drake, this designation will enable the hospital to offer constant care and messaging from the prenatal setting all the best way all through the affected person’s hospitalization, in addition to after discharge.

SJMH CEO Avah Stalnaker stated she was excited concerning the designation and pleased with the employees’s laborious work to obtain the certification.

“Congratulations to Robin and her crew of nice nurses in our Particular Supply Unit, the employees at Mountaineer Healthcare for Ladies and all of the physicians who participated on this effort,” Stalnaker stated.

“This was an incredible quantity of labor that resulted on this optimistic final result for our sufferers. Now we have a lot to have fun as a result of excellent and engaged staff that we now have. Each division within the hospital was educated and had a component on this great suggestion.”

The distinguished honor demonstrates that Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital is adhering to the best requirements of take care of breastfeeding moms and their infants. These requirements are constructed on the ‘Ten Steps to Profitable Breastfeeding’, a set of evidence-based practices really helpful by the World Well being Group (WHO) and the United Nations Worldwide Youngsters’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) for optimum toddler feeding help within the treasured first days of a new child’s life.

Throughout Tuesday’s reception, Drake reconfirmed the significance of affected person care.

“We’re extraordinarily proud to be acknowledged for the laborious work of our crew members all through the Child-Pleasant course of,” she stated. “It’s an honor to say ‘We’re Child-Pleasant designated’. We’re dedicated to implementing evidence-based care to make sure that moms receiving prenatal care in our OBGYN places of work, delivering in our facility and following up with our pediatrician and household observe physicians obtain the knowledge, help and sources wanted to assist her and her child get the very best, healthiest begin in life.”