The Mt. Hope Women’s Hos­pi­tal was of­fi­cial­ly rec­og­nized and award­ed Ba­by Friend­ly Ac­cred­i­ta­tion on Au­gust 5. The of­fi­cial Ba­by Friend­ly Hos­pi­tal Ini­tia­tive Ac­cred­i­ta­tion cer­e­mo­ny was held at the Col­poscopy Women’s Cen­tre on Sat­ur­day morn­ing, with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Min­istry of Health, PA­HO/WHO, NCRHA Board of Di­rec­tors, Ex­ec­u­tive Man­age­ment and staff in at­ten­dance to cel­e­brate the mile­stone achieve­ment which was cul­mi­nat­ed with the un­veil­ing of the of­fi­cial plaque pre­sen­ta­tion.

The Ba­by-Friend­ly Health Ini­tia­tive (BFHI) is a World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WHO) a project that pro­motes prac­tices that fa­cil­i­tate pos­i­tive out­comes for moth­ers and ba­bies world­wide.

In June 2023, the Mount Hope Women’s Hos­pi­tal suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed eval­u­a­tion by a WHO ap­point­ed pan­el to as­sess whether the hos­pi­tal met the glob­al cri­te­ria against which in­ter­na­tion­al fa­cil­i­ties are as­sessed and Mt. Hope Women’s Hos­pi­tal re­ceived ac­cred­i­ta­tion sta­tus with fly­ing colours, hav­ing ex­celled in all ex­am­i­na­tion cat­e­gories.

At­tain­ing Ba­by-Friend­ly Hos­pi­tal Ini­tia­tive (BFHI) ac­cred­i­ta­tion high­lights that the Mount Hope Women’s Hos­pi­tal is com­mit­ted to ev­i­dence-based, best-prac­tice ma­ter­ni­ty care; and to en­sur­ing that moth­ers and new-born­sre­ceive time­ly and ap­pro­pri­ate care dur­ing their stay at the hos­pi­tal, to en­able the es­tab­lish­ment of op­ti­mal feed­ing of new-borns, which pro­motes their over­all health and de­vel­op­ment.