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Penticton Baby Friendly Initiative Committee

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Commitment: Long-term

Connection method: Hybrid

Open to Interior Region

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Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) is a global quality program that helps health care facilities create welcoming spaces for families and supports breastfeeding and infant feeding.

Penticton Health Center and Penticton Regional Hospital have recently become BFI accredited facilities. There is an ongoing committee that meets every other month to review how the facilities are doing in meeting standards for BFI accreditation.

We are looking for patient partners who can attend these meetings and give feedback on the various projects and changes that go along with maintaining Baby Friendly healthcare facilities. This includes sharing the patient perspective.

These meetings can be attended in person or virtually by patient partners.

Level of Engagement

This opportunity is at the level of Consult on the IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation.

Eligibility

  • Willing & comfortable to share health care experiences in a group setting
  • Specific health care experiences [details below]
  • Comfortable using technology to attend online/virtual meetings
  • An interest in improving health care services
  • The time to participate in the engagement opportunity
  • Specific health care experience includes having a baby in the Penticton area in the last couple of years.
Patient Partners ARE NOT required to be PVN members to participate in this engagement opportunity.

Health Care Partner Contact Information

Jocelyn Haight Baby Friendly Initiative Coordinator (interim), Maternity Care Services | Interior Health - Penticton (778) 988-4058 jocelyn.haight@interiorhealth.ca

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