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- National Breastfeeding Week, Aug. 1-7, Focuses Attention On Need For Supportive Families, Friends And Employers
World Breastfeeding Week is Aug. 1-7, so the state Department for Public Health is pointing out the importance of providing support for breastfeeding families. ?We encourage mothers to breastfeed to ensure that infants are getting the nutrition they need...
- Uk Hospital Chosen To National Program To Improve Breastfeeding Rates
Photo courtesy of University of Kentucky Chandler HospitalUniversity of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital has been chosen to participate in Best Fed Beginnings, a national effort to improve breast feeding rates. Improvement is badly needed, with...
- New Technology At Uk Allows For More Comprehensive Breast Imagery, Especially For Women With Much Dense Or Fatty Tissue
Technology that will enable radiologists to see individual breast structures without overlapping tissues obstructing their view will begin being used at the breast care center at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center. It will be the only center...
- Breast Cancer Screening Offered
If you're a woman, mark your calender for Wednesday, October 7. That's when we're inviting you to join us for an evening of frank and honest discussion about women?s breast health hosted by WJZ-TV 13 news anchor Mary Bubala. Clinical breast...
- Sinai Hospital Honored As Breastfeeding-friendly Workplace
Sinai Hospital has won an award for being a Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplace, the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced Monday. August was Breastfeeding Month in Maryland, and DHMH recognized employers through the state whose programs...
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Kentucky companies adjust to new federal rules requiring accommodations for breast-feeding mothers
Rules in the federal health-care refom law are resulting in Kentucky companies making room and time for mothers breast-feeding their children, the Lexington Herald-Leader's Mary Meehan reports.
Louisville Metro Government and four Louisville hospitals have announced programs that encourage breast feeding. Thirteen government work sites in Louisville will add lactation stations funded by a $7.9 million federal grant. The University of Kentucky started providing a program for breast-feeding mothers in 2009.
"It's not easy being a working mom when you are trying to breast-feed," said mother Lauren Goodpaster, right (H-L photo by Mark Cornelison). "Just having the support, having people say that's a great thing you are doing, that was kind of a boost to keep me going on days when it is such a pain."
The rules, which took effect when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed March 23, 2010, require employers to provide reasonable break time and a private, non-bathroom place for nursing mothers to express breast milk during the work day. For more information about the regulations, click here. The U.S. Department of Labor has not yet released specific accommodation requirements or penalties if companies don't comply.
As of now, accommodations can be anything from providing a clean room with a locked door to allowing a fast food worker time to pump breast milk while in her car, Meehan reports.
Studies show breast-fed children are sick less often than those given formula, resulting in mothers missing less work time to care for their kids. In Kentucky, just 59 percent of new mothers breast-feed, compared to 75 percent nationwide. (Read more)
- National Breastfeeding Week, Aug. 1-7, Focuses Attention On Need For Supportive Families, Friends And Employers
World Breastfeeding Week is Aug. 1-7, so the state Department for Public Health is pointing out the importance of providing support for breastfeeding families. ?We encourage mothers to breastfeed to ensure that infants are getting the nutrition they need...
- Uk Hospital Chosen To National Program To Improve Breastfeeding Rates
Photo courtesy of University of Kentucky Chandler HospitalUniversity of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital has been chosen to participate in Best Fed Beginnings, a national effort to improve breast feeding rates. Improvement is badly needed, with...
- New Technology At Uk Allows For More Comprehensive Breast Imagery, Especially For Women With Much Dense Or Fatty Tissue
Technology that will enable radiologists to see individual breast structures without overlapping tissues obstructing their view will begin being used at the breast care center at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center. It will be the only center...
- Breast Cancer Screening Offered
If you're a woman, mark your calender for Wednesday, October 7. That's when we're inviting you to join us for an evening of frank and honest discussion about women?s breast health hosted by WJZ-TV 13 news anchor Mary Bubala. Clinical breast...
- Sinai Hospital Honored As Breastfeeding-friendly Workplace
Sinai Hospital has won an award for being a Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplace, the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced Monday. August was Breastfeeding Month in Maryland, and DHMH recognized employers through the state whose programs...