Geary Community Hospital and its Martha K. Hoover Women’s Center have been recognized as a Gold Safe Sleep Champion by Cribs for Kids®, a Pittsburgh, PA based organization that works to prevent sleep-related death of infants in unsafe sleeping environments by educating parents and caregivers on the importance of practicing safe sleep for their babies. Geary Community Hospital is the only Kansas hospital certified by the Cribs for Kids® organization.

The Cribs for Kids® National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification program awards recognition to hospitals that demonstrate a commitment to reducing infant Sleep-Related Deaths by promoting best safe sleep practices and by educating on infant sleep safety.  By becoming certified, a hospital is demonstrating that it is committed to being a community leader and is pro-actively eliminating as many sleep-related deaths as possible.

The program has three levels of certification: Bronze Safe Sleep Hospital, Silver Safe Sleep Leader, and the top certification level Gold Safe Sleep Champion.

Release from Harold Marion, GCH Director of Marketing and Public Relations.