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From: "Chris Musser" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:57 PM
Subject: Portland hospitals give the best gift of all for WBW!
> That is, they are no longer giving away formula-filled discharge bags!
>
> As of today, all major hospitals in Portland, Oregon, will no longer serve
> as formula company marketing hacks, sending new babies and moms home with
> formula in the traditional "gift" bag. This was managed without government
> intervention, but by staff lactation consultants and others who persuaded
> their hospitals administrators to voluntarily stop issuing the bags. (Once
> a
> couple hospitals agreed to stop, an LC at one holdout warned her
> hospital's
> administrators, "You don't want ours to be the last hospital in town still
> giving away formula, do you?") Altogether, five hospital systems, totaling
> 16 medical centers (including several outside the Portland area, as far
> off
> as Medford, Oregon), have stopped giving out formula in discharge bags.
> Some
> still are giving bags, but without formula or coupons.
>
> Today, during its annual Benefit Luncheon, the Nursing Mothers Counsel of
> Oregon awarded the following hospitals for "Maternity-Care Best Practices"
> for eliminating infant formula sample packs:
>
> * Adventist Medical Center
> * Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center
> * Legacy Emmanuel Hospital and Health Center
> * Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center
> * Legacy Meridian Park Hospital
> * Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center
> * Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital
> * Providence Portland Medical Center (where my two came into the
> world!)
> * Providence St. Vincent Medical Center
> * Providence Milwaukie Hospital
> * Providence Newberg Medical Center
> * Providence Seaside Hospital
> * Providence Medford Medical Center
> * Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital
> * Oregon Health and Science University
> * OHSU Doernbecher Neonatal Care Center
>
> Thank you to all those who worked to make this happen. Happy World
> Breastfeeding Week!
>
> Chris Musser
>
> Reluctant Lactivist | reluctantlactivist.blogspot.com
> Mom's Milk Anywhere | momsmilkanywhere.org
> Portland, Oregon
>
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