BMIRH

Health Care Provider Information

Breastfeeding

• Latch On NYC
• Promoting Breastfeeding in Hospitals LIST SERVE
• NYS Model Breastfeeding Policy (PDF)
• NYS Model Breastfeeding Policy Implementation Guide (PDF)
• NYS Model Hospital Breastfeeding Policy Training (PDF)
• Breastfeeding Mothers' Bill of Rights
• Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding (2011)
• Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Model Breastfeeding policy (PDF)
• International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (PDF)
• Community Transformation Grant (CTG) The NYC Breastfeding Hospital Collaborative (NYC BHC)

Additional Maternal and Infant Health

• Breastfeeding in New York City Hospitals, 2009 (PDF)
• Beliefs and Practices Regarding SIDS Risk Reduction Among African-American Mothers, Fathers, and Caregivers in NYC (PDF)
• SIDS Risk Reduction: Letter to Hospitals (2004) (PDF)
• Strategies for SIDS Risk Reduction: Family-Centered Strategies for Health Care Providers (PDF)
• Prenatal Care Appointment Survey. Barriers to Accessing Prenatal Care in New York City (2001) (PDF)
• Maternal Hemorrhage
  • Alert: Prevention of Maternal Deaths through Improved Management of Hemorrhage (PDF)
  • Managing Maternal Hemorrhage Poster (PDF)
• Infant Feeding Survey (2000) (PDF)
• Mental Health Resource Guide (PDF) 
• Prenatal Passport (PDF)

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Reproductive Health and Contraception

• Contraception: Encouraging Its Use : City Health Information 24(3): (2005) (PDF)
• Quick Guide to Contraception (PDF)
• Pocket Guide to Contraception (PDF)
• Emergency Contraception Brand/Dosage Chart 
• Emergency Contraception Action Kit (tool kit for pharmacists, 2005)
  • Fact Sheet (PDF)
  • Poster [ Spanish ] (PDF)
  • Letter (PDF)
• Sexual History Form (PDF)
• Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in NYC (2005) (PDF)
• Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy 
• Intimate Partner Violence Resources 
• Contraception: Encouraging Its Use : City Health Information 24(3): (2005) (PDF)

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Teen Pregnancy Prevention

• Healthy Teens Initiative: Seven Steps to Comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health Care for Adolescents in New York City: A toolkit and resource guide for health care providers (PDF)
• Neighborhood-based Public Health Program to Reduce Teen Pregnancy Disparities in NYC, Allyna B Steinberg, MPH and Philip M Alberti, PHD (PDF)
• Who’s At Risk? Teen Pregnancy in New York City (2002) (PDF)
• Adolescents' Reproductive Health Rights

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Consent and Reporting

• Adolescents' Reproductive Health Rights 
• DOHMH Universal Reporting Form for STDs and other reportable conditions (2003) 
• Sterilization Reporting
  • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) (PDF)
  • Guidelines (PDF)
  • Individual Sterilization Report Form (PDF)
  • New York State Sterilization Form 
  • NYC Administrative Code—Standards Governing the Performance of Sterilizations

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Resource Directories:

• Breastfeeding Resource Guide (PDF)
• Maternal Mental Health Resource Guide (PDF)

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For patient materials, click here.

For additional local, state and national resources, click here.

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