YNHHS earns national recognition for promoting safe sleep practices

The National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program recently awarded Yale New Haven Health a bronze-level designation for educating parents about safe sleep practices for newborns.

The certification program was created by Cribs for Kids, a national infant safe sleep organization dedicated to preventing infant sleep-related injuries and deaths due to sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) and accidental suffocation.

Hospitals are evaluated based on their ability to promote safe sleep education to infant caregivers, train staff, implement quality improvement measures and engage in community outreach about safe sleep.

“Yale New Haven Health is proud to champion safe sleep practices at all of our facilities,” said Clifford Bogue, MD, chief medical officer, Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, and chair of Pediatrics and the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine. “Every parent and caregiver of infants should learn about safe sleep to make sure they are providing the best possible environment for a child to live and grow.