Hospital Certification Manual, Guides, Tool Kit
Visiting our program landing page, you'll see a pink menu box allowing you to link to the manual; guides to evaluate your hospital's policies, training, and education; and our tool kit. The tool kit is organized by the level allowing access to resources to support certification applications maintenance, or upgrades.
Submittable Online Management Platform
Our certified hospitals have done an amazing job transitioning to Submittable for Annual Reports, Certification Applications for their hospital or as a system, and accessing the All Employee module. We hope this platform facilitates collaboration among team members and easy year over year information access.
Partner Resource Portal
Certified Hospitals are also welcome to access our Partner Portal. This password protected resource provides our partners and hospitals with access to translated education materials along with downloadable versions of our education. Click below and follow instructions to secure the password.
With our new "Safe or Not Safe" photo module and the return of our Safe Sleep Champion Webinars, Cribs for Kids has added an "Education" drop down menu item from our landing page. This new drop down menu item allows anyone to easily link to shareable and dynamic education resources like our Safe Sleep Ambassador, Safe or Not Safe Photo Module, Safe Sleep Academy, and our Safe Sleep Champion Webinar library and registration. Here is where you'll also find information on our national conference, from 2024 and as we make plans for our 2026 conference. Just follow the home page link and click away!
The next quarterly Safe Sleep Champions Webinar is scheduled for Thursday, January 9th, from 12pm - 1pm Eastern . We will talk with Kyran Quinlan, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Public Health Advisor to SUID-CR Cook County. We will be discussing the perceived risk of unsafe sleep deaths and how that can impact parent and caregiver decisions. Register for January's webinar, watch last month's debut of the quarterly feature, or check out the library of last year's monthly free webinars from the Education drop down menu item or this direct link below.
On October 16th the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted to approve a new safety rule affecting the broad category of "infant support cushions". The CPSC says there have been at least 79 deaths and 124 fatal incidents tied to this product category between 2010 and 2022. Most of the babies who died were younger than 3 months old.
Learn more following this link:
Why Baby Loungers and Support Pillows Are About to Get Safer - Consumer Reports
Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters
Featured in a local news station, CHKD in Virginia promoted infant safe sleep, sharing their commitment to certification. Link below to the story and click through to see how hospital promotes safe sleep on its website.
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital
Working with a local newspaper, this hospital in Tennessee worked with one of their docs to have an article published promoting safe sleep. This hospital has been silver safe sleep certified for nearly a decade!
Health: Ensure your infant is sleeping safely - Main Street Media of Tennessee
Sanford Medical Fargo
This hospital earned its first gold infant safe sleep certification this past July. Their team promoted safe sleep in October with an impactful display in the hospital using this as a springboard to connect with local news outlets.
Bronze
- Second five-year designation awarded to Forrest City Hospital in Arkansas.
Silver
- Second five-year designation awarded to OSF St. Joseph Hospital in Illinois and Brenner Children's Hospital at Wake Forest Baptist Health in North Carolina.
- Upgrade awarded to Duke Life Point Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center in Pennsylvania.
Gold
- Initial designations awarded to Kearny County Hospital in Kansas and Mercy Hospital Ada in Oklahoma.
- Systemwide initial designation to these three Norton Healthcare hospitals in Kentucky: Norton Hospital, Norton Children's Hospital, and Norton Women & Children's Hospital reaching over 10,000 annual births.
- Second five-year designation awarded to NYC Health Hospital|Queens in New York and Comanche County Memorial in Oklahoma, moving from Bronze to Gold with their recertification.
- Systemwide second five-year designation to these three Lee Health hospitals in Florida: Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida, Cape Coral Hospital, and HealthPark Hospital. You can see their team in the Fun Foto Feature.
- Upgrade awarded to Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies in Florida.
Congratulations to each of these hospitals and their safe sleep teams for their initial, ongoing, and expanding commitment to infant safe sleep care. Through your work we are reaching over 30% of the country's births each year.
Database of Infant Safe Sleep Certified Hospitals on the program's landing page:
Congrats to Lee Health - Send Your Fun Foto!
Congratulations to the Safe Sleep Team at Lee Health in Florida. These three hospitals earned their second five-year Infant Safe Sleep Hospital Certification at the system level, each at the Gold level. Shown here are the safe sleep champions for Lee Health's Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida, Health Park Medical Center, and Cape Coral Hospital. These three hospitals represent over 8,000 births. Well done!
We love to share your Fun Fotos. Send them to hospitalcertification@cribsforkids.org.
