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Contact: Lori Maldonado
Public Information Officer
(303) 692-2028
For Immediate Release Monday, July 24, 2006
Colorado Organizations Receive Breast-feeding Friendly
Worksite Awards
Denver - The Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment's Physical Activity and Nutrition Program, in collaboration
with the Colorado Breast-feeding Task Force, recently presented
Breast-feeding Friendly Worksite Awards to 45 Colorado businesses and
organizations.
The awards, announced in anticipation of the upcoming
World Breast-feeding Week, Aug. 1-7, recognize businesses and
organizations that provide supportive workplace environments and
practices for female employees who are breast-feeding their babies.
Bronze, silver and gold designations signify increasing levels of
support from recipient organizations. One organization, the University
of Colorado Hospital, received a gold award, while 18 organizations
received silver designations and 26 received bronze.
"These businesses and organizations made exemplary
efforts to support Colorado families," said Jennifer Dellaport,
breast-feeding promotion coordinator for the Colorado Health
Department's Women, Infants and Children Program and chairperson of the
Colorado Breast-feeding Task Force. The task force is a volunteer
organization, founded in 1990, made up of physicians, public health and
clinical nurses, public health nutritionists, lactation consultants, lay
counselors and members of the business community.
"Returning to work is the fourth most common reason
Colorado mothers give for stopping breast-feeding early," Dellaport
said. "The workplaces who received these awards protect breast-feeding
by establishing baby-friendly environments."
Recipient organizations received gold, silver or bronze designations
according to their level of implementation of such measures as providing
a specific break room for use only by breast-feeding women; creating a
written company policy that allows breaks for pumping milk or
breast-feeding; communicating company breast-feeding policy to all
employees; and permitting part-time work, job sharing, individualized
scheduling of work hours, compressed workweeks or telecommuting to
accommodate breast-feeding schedules.
This year's theme for World Breast-feeding Week, Code
Watch: 25 years of Protecting Breast-feeding, celebrates the more than
two-decade history of the International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk
Substitutes. The code provides guidelines for appropriately marketing
infant formula and bottle-feeding products and challenges communities to
provide supportive environments.
Dellaport said that infant formula marketing campaigns
sometimes discourage breast-feeding by playing on new mothers' lack of
confidence about producing enough milk. She said 42 percent of mothers
who stopped breast-feeding within two months of delivering their babies
said they quit because they didn't produce enough milk. "Most women make
plenty of milk, and replacing feedings with even small amounts of
formula will cause a woman's body to begin producing less milk,"
Dellaport said.
"Families have a right to know about the benefits of
breast-feeding and to be supported if they choose to feed their babies
this way," she said. "Families should have access to all the information
on infant feeding choices in order to make informed choices for babies."
For more information on breast-feeding, contact the
following organizations:
Colorado Breast-feeding Task Force, 303-869-1888; La Leche League,
303-779-6722; Women, Infants and Children Program, 303-692-2400; Family
Healthline, 1-800-688-7777; Colorado Physical Activity and Nutrition
Program, 303-692-2441; Mothers' Milk Bank, 303-869-1888; International
Lactation Consultant Association, www.ilca.org or 1-919-861-5577; and
National Breast-feeding Helpline, 1-800-994-9662.
The list of Colorado businesses and organizations receiving the 2006
Breast-feeding Friendly Worksite Awards accompanies this release.
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2006 Recipients of Breast-feeding Friendly Worksite Awards:
Gold Level:
University of Colorado Hospital, Denver, 303-372-5368
Silver Level:
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Denver, 303-831-2024
CH2M-Hill, Englewood, 720-286-5161
Colorado Access, Denver, 720-744-5450
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center, Wheat Ridge, 303-425-2229
HealthONE, Denver, 303-584-6030
Holme Roberts & Owen LLP, Denver, 303-866-0485
Kaiser Permanente, Aurora, 303-614-1116
Kaiser Permanente, Wheat Ridge, 303-421-5015
Memorial Health System, Colorado Springs, 719-365-5997
Parkview Medical Center, Pueblo, 719-584-4589
Pfizer Inc., Centennial, 303-793-5664
Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, 970-495-8252
Raytheon Company, Aurora, 720-848-4100
Rebeltec Communications, LLC; Kit Carson, 719-767-8902
The Children's Hospital, Denver, 303-861-6561
The Medical Center of Aurora, South Campus; Aurora, 303-873-5945
Valley View Hospital, Glenwood Springs, 970-384-7230
Wray Community District Hospital, Wray, 970-332-4811
Bronze Level:
Advanced Medical Imaging, Denver, 303-430-1709
Aspen Valley Hospital, Aspen, 970-925-1120
Avista Adventist Hospital, Louisville, 303-673-1105
Buchtel Motors, Denver, 303-733-4030
Carter & Burgess Inc., Denver, 303-820-5245
Chaffee County Public Health, Salida, 719-539-4510
COBIZ Inc., Denver, 303-312-3478
Colorado Plains Medical Center, Ft. Morgan, 970-867-3391
Delta County Memorial, Delta, 970-874-6424
Denver West Surgery Center, Golden, 303-271-1112
Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital, Denver, 303-837-6612
InSync Creative Marketing, Denver, 303-296-6879
JP Morgan Chase, Denver, 303-607-7700
Lincoln County Public Health, Hugo, 719-743-2526
Melissa Memorial Hospital, Amherst, 970-854-2241
Montrose Memorial Hospital, Montrose, 970-249-2211
Prowers Medical Center, Lamar, 719-336-4343
Rose Medical Center, Denver, 303-320-2072
SANDOZ, Broomfield, 303-438-2682
Southwest Memorial Hospital, Cortez, 970-564-2245
St. Anthony Summit Medical Center, Frisco, 970-668-8200
Swedish Medical Center, Englewood, 303-788-6060
Swift, Greeley, 970-304-7226
TIAA-CREF, Denver, 303-607-2492
United Health Care of Colorado, Centennial, 303-267-3406
Yampa Valley Medical Center, Steamboat Springs, 970-870-1118
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