Forbes Hospital recently became a facility recognized for its efforts to promote and encourage breastfeeding.
The Monroeville hospital was named a Keystone 10 facility, a program developed under the state Department of Health (DOH) to assist birthing hospitals “in implementing evidence-based maternity care practice, with a goal of improving breastfeeding care and rates, and ultimately improving the health of mothers and babies.”
The state DOH partnered with the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics to develop the Keystone 10 initiative, according to its website.
It was modeled after the Texas Ten Step Star Achiever Initiative, which helps hospitals improve policies and processes that affect breastfeeding outcomes.
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PITTSBURGH, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Highmark Health announced today that Kathy L. Pape, Esq., senior counsel with Saxton & Stump in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has been named to its board of directors effective immediately.
Kathy Pape, Highmark Health Board of Directors
Ms. Pape practices in Saxton & Stump s Regulatory and Government Affairs, Business and Corporate, Internal Investigations, and Mergers and Acquisitions groups. Before entering private practice, Ms. Pape was head of American Water s mid-Atlantic region which included Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland. Prior to that she was the president of Pennsylvania American Water.
In the community, Ms. Pape is dedicated to several non-profit organizations and has chaired the Pennsylvania Business Counsel, the Foundation for Enhancing Communities, and the Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Association of Water Companies. She is an active member of the Boards of the M
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