A 5-Year Follow-up Study of Hospital Breastfeeding Policies in the Philadelphia Area: A Comparison With the Ten Steps

The purpose of this study was to describe the current status of hospital breastfeeding policies and practices in the Philadelphia area, to assess hospitals’current implementation levels of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, and to compare current implementation levels with 1994 baseline data. Most surveyed hospitals were fully implementing 5 of the Ten Steps. Thirty-seven percent of the hospitals were classified as high implementers and...