CHKD Kidstuff, Winter 2025

CHKD was recently recognized by the National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program as a Gold Certified Safe Sleep Hospital, the highest certification a hospital can receive. This program, created by Cribs for Kids, recognizes CHKD’s commitment to providing resources and education to ensure babies in our hospital and the community sleep in the safest environments possible. Cribs for Kids is a national infant safe sleep organization with a mission to reduce infant sleep-related deaths by educating parents and caregivers on the importance of practicing safe sleep for their babies. Hospitals play a significant role in this effort by:

• Promoting infant safe-sleep guidelines like placing infants on their backs to sleep to reduce the risk of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) and unsafe sleep injuries.

• Identifying at-risk families and caregivers and providing them with safe sleep spaces for infants.

• Educating the community on safe sleep practices for children under 1 year of age.

• Training healthcare team members and family caregivers in the most up-to-date safe sleep guidelines.

For more information on safe sleep for infants, visit CHKD.org/SafeSleep.