Gift Designation
In an effort to recognize participating facilities, and create a system of sustained evidence-based change, the LaPQC’s Gift Program offers Gift Designation. With two tiers of achievement – LA Gift and LA Gift+ – this Designation recognizes facilities’ consistent, thoughtful healthcare, quality improvement work. Gift Designation also celebrates improved perinatal and neonatal health outcomes, the result of safely and equitably implementing internationally recognized best practices to improve breastfeeding outcomes.
Each Designation level includes the following five areas of requirement: participation in quality improvement and collaborative learning; health disparity and patient partnership; policies and procedures; structures and education, including consistent messaging; and outcome and process measures.
The Gift does not replace Baby-Friendly accreditation, but assists facilities in achieving and maintaining standards that position them for success during Gift and Baby-Friendly™ designation and maintenance.
Applications for designation and redesignation are reviewed on a quarterly basis (October, January, April, July) by a Bureau of Family Health appointed review committee. For more information on enrollment or the designation application process, please contact the lapqc@la.gov.
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Hospitals receiving Gift Designation did not pay for this honor; rather, facilities went through a rigorous application and review process by the LaPQC/Gift Team to receive Gift Designation. Facilities interested in joining the LaPQC or learning more about Gift Designation can contact us at lapqc@la.gov.
Gift Designated Facilities
LA There are currently 40 LA Gift or Gift+ and 8 Baby-Friendly* designated birthing facilities in Louisiana
The Gift program has two designation levels: LA Gift and LA Gift+.
LA Gift+ is the highest designation with more rigorous requirements.
LA Gift+ Designated Facilities:
- Abbeville General Hospital – designated since 2021
- CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital – designated since May 2018
- *East Jefferson General Hospital – designated since 2007
- *Lakeview Regional Medical Center – designated since 2011
- Lane Regional Medical Center – designated since 2018
- *Minden Medical Center – designated since 2009
- Ochsner Medical Center-Baton Rouge – designated since 2011
- Ochsner St. Anne General Hospital – designated since 2015
- *St. Tammany Health System – designated since 2009
- Terrebonne General Health System – designated since 2010
- Willis Knighton Bossier Health Center – designated since 2010
- Woman’s Hospital – designated since 2011
LA Gift Designated Facilities:
- Baton Rouge General Medical Center – designated since 2007
- Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital – designated since 2015
- Beauregard Health System – designated since 2019
- CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center – designated since 2009
- CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital – designated since 2011
- Jennings American Legion Hospital – designated since 2021
- Lafayette General Medical Center – designated since 2008
- Lake Charles Memorial Hospital for Women – designated since Jan 2017
- North Oaks Medical Center – designated since 2016
- Ochsner Baptist, A Campus of Ochsner Medical Center – designated since 2013
- Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport St. Mary Medical Center – designated April 2017
- Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport – Monroe Medical Center – designated since July 2017
- Ochsner Medical Center-Baton Rouge – designated since 2011
- Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner – designated since April 2018
- Ochsner Medical Center-West Bank – designated since 2007
- *Opelousas General Health System – designated since 2015
- Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s and Children’s Hospital – designated since 2009
- Our Lady of the Angels Hospital – designated since Oct 2017
- Rapides Women’s and Children’s Hospital – designated since 2007
- Slidell Memorial Hospital – designated since 2011
- St. Francis Medical Center – designated since 2009
- Thibodaux Regional Health System – designated since 2016
- *Touro Infirmary – designated since 2016
- *Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children – designated since 2008
- West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital – designated since 2016
- West Jefferson Medical Center – designated since 2007
- Willis Knighton South and the Center for Women’s Health – designated since 2010
- Willis Knighton Pierremont Health Center – designated since 2010
Initiatives
The Gift
Seeks to improve maternal and infant outcomes related to breastfeeding and birth parent-infant bonding.
Safe Births Initiative
The primary home for AIM bundle implementation and perinatal outcomes work.
ICSED
Our initiative focused on outcomes related to dyads affected by substance & opioid use disorder.
Caregiver Perinatal Depression Screening
Our work that seeks to understand screening & referral pathways for caregivers affected by depression.