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NASSAU COUNTY PERINATAL SERVICES NETWORK TO HOLD ITS EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE AT NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ENTITLED “BREAST FEEDING: BUILDING COMMUNITY SUPPORT” TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT BREASTFEEDING, PARTICULARLY AMONG LOW INCOME WOMEN JUNE 5, 2009 FROM 8:00 AM TO 1:00 PM

May 4, 2009
Contact:  Shelley Lotenberg
(516) 572-6055
shelley@numc.edu

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

NASSAU COUNTY PERINATAL SERVICES NETWORK TO HOLD ITS EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE AT NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ENTITLED “BREAST FEEDING:  BUILDING COMMUNITY SUPPORT” TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT BREASTFEEDING, PARTICULARLY AMONG LOW INCOME WOMEN JUNE 5, 2009 FROM 8:00 AM TO 1:00 PM

CONFERENCE OF IMPORTANCE TO HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES PROFESSIONALS WHO SERVE PREGNANT AND PARENTING WOMEN, WITH THE GOAL OF REDUCING INFANT MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY

East Meadow, New York……Arthur A. Gianelli, President/CEO of the Nassau Health Care Corporation, announced the 8th Annual Nassau County Perinatal Services Network “Breastfeeding:  Building Community Support” conference to be held at the Nassau University Medical Center on Friday, June 5th, 2009 from 8 AM to 1 PM.  The Nassau County Perinatal Services Network is overseen by the Nassau County Department of Health, Division of Women and Children, and funded by the New York State Department of Health.

“We urge health and human services professionals who serve pregnant and parenting women to attend this conference in order to create awareness among health providers of the need to promote and protect breastfeeding, particularly among low income women.  By building a community support system to promote breastfeeding, we can work towards achieving a reduction in infant mortality and morbidity,” said Gianelli.

Those health and human services professionals who attend the conference will be able, at the end of the seminar, to:
1. Identify at least one health benefit of breastfeeding and its impact on infant health.
2. Identify at least one barrier that prevents high-risk women from breastfeeding.
3. Describe at least one feature of an outreach/health education model that successfully engages low-income women to breastfeed.
4. Identify one maternal and child health program that provides community support for breast feeding.

Nursing Credits:  This continuing nursing education activity has been submitted to the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation for 3.7 contact hours.  Attendance at entire conference is mandatory to receive contact hours.  No partial credit will be given.
 
Registration is essential as space is limited.  Conference fee is $20 ($10 for students).  Please contact Kristin Hotzler-Connors to register at 516-572-0954 or khotzler@nassaucountyny.gov.