Hospital Initiative Toolkit

Starting A Hospital-Based Infant Safe Sleep Program

In order to reduce sleep-related infant deaths in a community, it is critical to provide a consistent and repetitive message about infant sleep safety. A hospital-based program will achieve this goal of reducing the risk of injury and death to infants while sleeping, through multiple processes including: 1) providing accurate and consistent infant safe sleep information to hospital personnel including medical, nursing, breastfeeding, child birth education, and nutritional staff; 2) enabling the hospital to implement and model infant safe sleep practices throughout their facility; and 3) providing direction to health care professionals so that safe sleep education for parents is consistent and repetitive.

Below are materials that are currently used to implement a successful Hospital Initiative. Feel free to review and use for your own program.

1. Instructions for Starting a Hospital-based Safe Sleep Program

2. Organizational Chart

3. Generic Baby Poster/ English

4. Generic Baby Poster/Spanish

5. Hospital Policy for Infant Sleep Safety

6. Safe Sleep Initiative Policy Manual and Toolkit

7. Acknowledgement Form/English

8. Aknowledgement Form/Spanish

9. Safe Sleep Flip Chart 2010

10. Safe Sleep Flip Chart / Design Instructions

11. Non Compliance Waiver/English