Breastfeeding (BEST) and K-10
Funded by: PA Department of Health
Breastfeeding Education, Support, and Training (BEST) and the Keystone 10 program
Breastfeeding Education, Support, and Training (BEST) and the Keystone 10 program
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Keystone 10 is a quality improvement breastfeeding initiative aimed at improving the protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding for all Pennsylvania infants, mothers, and families. Keystone 10 assists Pennsylvania’s birthing facilities in adopting and implementing evidence-based maternity care practices with the goal of improving individual facility and state level breastfeeding care, increasing breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity, and duration rates through the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.
Over the last five years, this initiative has actively engaged 84 of the 90 Pennsylvania birthing facilities in local, regional, and state level efforts showing documented improvement in facility practices, staff education, and patient outcomes in initiation, duration, and exclusivity rates of breastfeeding across the Commonwealth. In addition to working with the hospitals to advance the 10 steps to successful breastfeeding, Keystone 10 offers a 15 Hour Interdisciplinary Breastfeeding Management Course for the hospitals of Pennsylvania. |
The EPIC (Educating Practices/Physicians in their Communities) - BEST (Breastfeeding Education, Support, and Training) program is a statewide practice education program using office-based change as the key to promote initiation and increasing the duration of exclusive breastfeeding. BEST is funded by the PA Department of Health and contractually administered by the PA Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics. EPIC-BEST presentations can be scheduled on site at practices, at grand rounds, monthly meetings and staff meetings. This CME/CEU program helps practices:
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- Interested in FREE breastfeeding training with CME/CEU’s?
- Visit https://cme.hs.pitt.edu/ISER/app/home/displayMainPage?site=paaap to access the 1-hour online BEST module (1 CME/CEU) and the 15-hour Keystone 10 modules (15 CME/CEU’s).
- Questions about the online trainings? Email Shannon Fyalkowski, Program Coordinator at sfyalkowski@paaap.org
- Interested in scheduling a LIVE Keystone 10 or BEST training?
- Email Dottie Schell, Program Director at dschell@paaap.org