Section 1257.9 Of Article 1. General From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 1.
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. (a) (1) The department shall recommend training for general
acute care hospitals, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1250,
and special hospitals, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section
1250, that is intended to improve breast-feeding rates among mothers
and infants. This recommended training should be designed for general
acute care hospitals that provide maternity care and have exclusive
patient breast-feeding rates in the lowest 25 percent, according to
the data published yearly by the State Department of Public Health,
when ranked from highest to lowest rates. The training offered shall
include a minimum of eight hours of training provided to appropriate
administrative and supervisory staff on hospital policies and
recommendations that promote exclusive breast-feeding. Hospitals that
meet the minimum criteria for exclusive breast-feeding rates
prescribed in the most current Healthy People Guidelines of the
United States Department of Health and Human Services shall be
excluded from the training requirements recommended by this
paragraph.
(2) The department shall notify the hospital director or other
person in charge of a hospital to which paragraph (1) applies, that
the eight-hour model training course developed pursuant to
subdivision (b) of Section 123360, is available, upon request, to the
hospital.
(b) The recommendations provided for in this section are advisory
only. Nothing in this section shall require a hospital to comply with
the training recommended by this section. Section 1290 shall not
apply to this section, nor shall meeting the recommendations of this
section be a condition of licensure.