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Cribs for Kids National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program

Also: Cribs for Kids · Safe Sleep Hospital Certification

Pittsburgh-based charity that supplies portable cribs to families who cannot afford a safe sleep space, and certifies hospitals at bronze (Certified Safe Sleep Hospital), silver (Leader) and gold (Champion) levels for having a policy, training staff, modelling and teaching AAP safe sleep, and (at gold) community outreach and crib provision.

Years
2017–now
Country
United States
Topic
Infant sleep
Asks people to
Substitute
Strategy
Environmental supportSimple instruction
Channel
Clinical setting
Audience
CliniciansParents
Hospitals caring for infants; low-income families

Evidence

NoneUnknown

No evaluation of certification itself found. Related evidence: hospital QI projects all report in-hospital gains (Salm Ward & Yasin review of 27); Pennsylvania mothers who gave birth in initiative hospitals more often reported back sleep, separate surface and no soft objects (PRAMS-linked); but in the SAFE RCT the nursing QI arm alone did not change home practices.

Sponsor (who paid)

  • Cribs for Kids NGO

Credits (who made it)

Not recorded yet.

Related campaigns

Sources

  1. Cribs for Kids hospital certification: about our program sponsor
  2. Salm Ward TC, Yasin T. Hospital-based inpatient QI initiatives on safe infant sleep: systematic review. Sleep Med Rev 2022 reference · 2022 · DOI 10.1016/j.smrv.2022.101622 · PMID 35367719
  3. Decker CM et al. A hospital-based initiative for infant safe sleep practice (Pennsylvania). Pediatrics 2025 evaluation · 2025 · DOI 10.1542/peds.2024-067659 · PMID 39799962
  4. Moon RY et al. Nursing QI and mobile health interventions on infant sleep practices: RCT. JAMA 2017 evaluation · 2017 · DOI 10.1001/jama.2017.8982 · PMID 28742913

Research notes

Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. Over 500 certified hospitals is a founder claim in a hospital press release. Start year not found. URL seen in WebSearch results; startYear 2017 is the earliest dated source found, not a confirmed launch year.

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