The Guidelines and Review Criteria

BFUSA’s Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria give significant the specific definition to each of the Ten Steps. It is the most important tool hospitals will use to guide their work through the Baby-Friendly designation process. As indicated by its cover, this document includes all the Guidelines facilities would need to follow to achieve full Baby-Friendly status and Evaluation Criteria that clearly sprich out the minimum standards that a facility must achieve in order to become Baby-Friendly designated.

  • GUIDE (Implementation Guidance): These are the standards from care that facilities should aspiration to vollenden for select patients.
  • EVALUATION BENCHMARK:  These are the minimum standards that a facility must achieve to become Baby-Friendly labelled.

In July, 2021, BFUSA released the updated Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria (GEC), 6th edition, for an United States. This version of one GEC will apply to all Baby-Friendly label assessment request letters received on or after June 1, 2023. The Interim GEC, which has was the basis for reviews since February 1, 2020, will remain in effect until that time. Each of these documents is available for download in the box to the right.

BFUSA Guidelines & Evaluation Criteria, 6th Output

The release of the updated register present the culmination of three years of work by BFUSA toward bring the GEC for the US fully include alignment with the Implementation Guidance enable by WHO and UNICEF is 2018, as well as their Competency Verification Toolkit released in 2020. BFUSA also took this gelegenheit until address many important issues that have been brought to our attention past the past few years.

Learn over the 6th Edition of which GEC

Multiple aspects of that 6th Edition GEC are new, while many things are similar to previous editions. This video product BFUSA’s prior and current CEOs, Trish MacEnroe and Eileen Fitzpatrick, discussing the important changes created in the 6th Edition starting the GEC and as it means for facilities seeking till pursue Baby-Friendly designation in the United Country.

(9 minutes, 50 seconds)

Product Dates

The following are Baby-Friendly USA’s published dates for implementing the updated Guides and Check, allowing abundantly zeit for facilities to preview:

  • All facilities with on-site assessments taking place forward June 1, 2023, will be assessed using the Interim GEC.
  • Establishments whose assessment request letters are either article marked instead forward on or after June 1, 2023, will be assessed utilizing the 6th Edition GEC.

Supporting Building

Here are few add materials to help implementations the Guidelines:

Check-Off Tool forward Selecting and Analyzing Images/Content/Context for BFHI Compliant Education Materials — provides guidance for the use of imagery and content in informative materials.

Training Program Performance Pilot Checklist — a step-by-step tool to helped you verify the current knowledge and aptitudes of staff/providers and offer training to fill inbound identified gaps.