This week’s Champion is Becca Young, medical student at Oxford University and CHEERing volunteer. Becca was nominated for her hard work and dedication while she volunteered with CHEERing in Athens last August. Being a medical student with a keen interest in international aid work, Becca decided

Our CHEER Champion of the Week is Paula Schreck, MD, IBCLC, FABM and Medical Director, Breastfeeding Support Services, Ascension St. John’s Hospital in Michigan. Dr. Schreck was nominated for her accomplishments in getting Detroit hospitals baby-friendly designated and founding the Ascension St. J

This week’s Champion of the week is a special young woman living in Athens, Greece. “Elise” (her name has been changed to protect her confidentiality) is a refugee living in an Athens shelter, with her husband and baby. The family sought refuge in Greece to escape the ongoing war in their Afri

Congratulations to Anderson Regional Medical Center in Meridian, Mississippi, for becoming the 13th hospital in Mississippi to attain Baby-Friendly Designation on September 11, 2019. Anderson has approximately 1200 births per year with a level III NICU. They began their Baby-Friendly journey in 2015

Congratulations to CHAMPS Hospital Merit Health Madison in Canton, Mississippi, for becoming Baby-Friendly on September 4, 2019! Merit Health Madison Hospital is a 35,000 square foot facility with a maternity department that has approximately 300 births per year. Merit Madison began their Baby-Fr

​Our CHEER CHAMPion of the Week is Lacey Griffith, RN, and Director of Women’s Services at Merit Health River Region. She was nominated for her pivotal role in the CHAMPS hospital’s progress towards designation. ​ “The best part of the job is that special “Ah-ah” moment when all the

The CHEER Champion of the Week blog will be on vacation for the month of August. The next post will appear after Labor Day, on September 9th. See you then!

Major Kimberly (“Kim”) Rosenbaum, MSN, RNC-OB, IBCLC, was CHEER Champion of the Week in 2016 for creating a unique patient education checklist at

This week, CHAMPS would like to recognize the wonderful work the Greenwood Leflore Hospital (GLH) Baby-Friendly Team has been doing. GLH, in Greenwood, Mississippi, has approximately 435 births per year. They joined CHAMPS in 2015 and started their Baby-Friendly journey in 2017. Like all Baby-Friend

This week’s CHEER Champion of the Week is Linda Jackson, BS, Peer Counselor II for Mississippi State Department of Health’s (MSDH) WIC Breastfeeding Program. She was nominated by her supervisor,  Read More