Awards and Recognitions

Awards and Accreditations

Baby-Friendly Designation

Baby-Friendly USA is the U.S. authority for implementing the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (“BFHI”), a global program sponsored by the World Health Organization and the United Nations International Emergency Children’s Fund. The initiative encourages and recognizes hospitals and birthing centers that offer an optimal level of care for breastfeeding mothers and their babies. To receive Baby-Friendly designation, hospitals must incorporate the “Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding,” which include prenatal education about optimal infant feeding, keeping mothers and babies together, breastfeeding within one hour, feeding on demand, teaching mothers how to initiate and maintain lactation and referrals to local breastfeeding support groups.

GIFT Designated Birthing Facility

This hospital is a GIFT designated birthing facility. The Gift (Guided Infant Feeding Techniques) is an evidence-based program designed to increase breastfeeding rates and hospital success by improving the quality of their maternity services and enhancing patient-centered care. It is a hospital designation program that is endorsed by the Louisiana services and enhancing patient-centered care. It is also endorsed by the Louisiana Chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics and American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Louisiana Commission on Perinatal Care and the Prevention of Infant Mortality.

Mammography Accreditation

The ACR gold seal of accreditation represents the highest level of image quality and patient safety. It is awarded only to facilities meeting ACR Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards after a peer-review evaluation by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field. Image quality, personnel qualifications, adequacy of facility equipment, quality control procedures, and quality assurance programs are assessed. The findings are reported to the ACR Committee on Accreditation, which subsequently provides the practice with a comprehensive report they can use for continuous practice improvement.

MRI Accreditation

The ACR gold seal of accreditation represents the highest level of image quality and patient safety. It is awarded only to facilities meeting ACR Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards after a peer-review evaluation by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field. Image quality, personnel qualifications, adequacy of facility equipment, quality control procedures, and quality assurance programs are assessed. The findings are reported to the ACR Committee on Accreditation, which subsequently provides the practice with a comprehensive report they can use for continuous practice improvement.

Ultrasound Accreditation

The ACR gold seal of accreditation represents the highest level of image quality and patient safety. It is awarded only to facilities meeting ACR Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards after a peer-review evaluation by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field. Image quality, personnel qualifications, adequacy of facility equipment, quality control procedures, and quality assurance programs are assessed. The findings are reported to the ACR Committee on Accreditation, which subsequently provides the practice with a comprehensive report they can use for continuous practice improvement.