We exist to empower and advocate for holders of the IBCLC® credential in the marketplace, in legislation and in policy. Our vision is to advance health by ensuring access to care by persons holding the IBCLC® credential.
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What have we been up to?
We're glad you asked!
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NLCA provided comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) fiscal year (FY) 2023 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS) proposed rule.
This call for comments centered around interventions to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality through hospital prospective payment systems. Suggested hospital performance standards related to lactation care were missing from this call for comments. We commented on how breastfeeding reduced maternal morbidity such as hypertension and postpartum depression. We related how the IBCLC was instrumental in providing exemplary lactation care to produce optimal breastfeeding outcomes. We proposed performance standards for value-based incentive payments to hospitals that should include standards for exemplary hospital lactation care such as appropriate IBCLC staffing.
Review our comments on the NLCA News page of our website at www.NLCA.us/news
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NLCA submitted comments to the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Please find the toolkit here.
Our comments centered on access to the infant’s first food- breastmilk. We talked of the importance of access to the IBCLC®, how to reduce the demand for infant formula, increasing access via licensure of the IBCLC®, the relationship between lack of breastfeeding and diet-related diseases, and how breastfeeding could be better protected.
Review our comments on the NLCA News page of our website at www.NLCA.us/news
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Registration is now open for our upcoming Workshop Series: The Summer of the IBCLC®!
This series of two three-hour workshops will focus on the IBCLC® in the hospital setting. Application has been made for 3 hours of continuing education credits for IBCLCs, RNs, and RDs for each workshop.
Purchase tickets to one workshop, both workshops, or both summer workshops plus the recording of our recent workshop, Moving the IBCLC® Forward: A Workshop on Improving Access to Clinical Care (awarded 3 E-CERPS, or three hours of CE for RNs and RDs) for a total of 9 hours of continuing education.
Workshops will be recorded and available after the event to those who cannot attend live.
Workshop One: July 30, 1:00-4:30 pm ET
How to be an Effective Hospital-Based IBCLC®
- Session 1: Optimal Lactation Care in the Hospital Setting
- Session 2: It’s Just the Milk - Why Bother Breastfeeding in the NICU?
- Session 3: Advocating for the IBCLC® in the Hospital Setting
Faculty: Rebecca Mannel, MPH, IBCLC, FILCA; Sylvia Edwards, RN, MS, APN, IBCLC; Teresa McCullen, BA, IBCLC, Lic. LC; Claire Eden, BA, IBCLC, Lic. LC; Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
Workshop Two: August 27, 1:00-4:30 pm ET
Extending Your Reach Beyond Patient Care
- Session 1: Opportunities for Breastfeeding Support in a Pediatric Hospital
- Session 2: Improving Outcomes Through Motivational Interviewing
- Session 3: A Data and Team Driven Approach to Becoming a Baby Friendly Hospital
Faculty: Ginger Carney, MPH, RDN, LDN, IBCLC, FILCA, FAND; Glenda Dickerson, MS, RN, IBCLC; Sylvia Edwards, RN, MS, APN, IBCLC
Click here to register or visit www.nlca.us
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Each month, we introduce to you a different NLCA Board Member. Our board is made up of current and former Board Members of ILCA®, USLCA, IBLCE®, HMBANA, Baby-Friendly USA and many state breastfeeding coalitions. We are current and former Editors of the Journal Clinical Lactation, members of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Human Lactation and authors of numerous journal manuscripts and textbooks. We are attorneys, APNs, RNs, Dietitians, University Faculty Members and LLL leaders and we are all holders of IBCLC® certification. |
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Ginger Carney RD, LD, IBCLC, FILCA
Ginger Carney is from Memphis, TN. She is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant®. Her current position is Director of Clinical Nutrition & Lactation Services at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Her passion is pediatric nutrition and the promotion and support of breastfeeding. She helped establish a lactation program at St. Jude and also promoted breastfeeding in her previous position in a general pediatric hospital. She provides clinical lactation training for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and dietitians. She currently teaches employee breastfeeding classes and mentors RDNs who have an interest in clinical lactation. Ginger also provides volunteer breastfeeding support to families in her community.
Ginger has contributed to many publications related to breastfeeding and lactation and has presented to numerous groups on the importance of breastfeeding as optimal infant nutrition and the dietitian’s role in its promotion. She has been active locally, state-wide, and nationally serving in professional organizations, including the United States Lactation Consultant Association and the Women’s Health and Pediatric Nutrition Dietetic Practice Groups of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She is currently serving on the Academy’s Breastfeeding Policy and Advocacy Collaborative. She is an original founding member of the Memphis Area Lactation Consultant Association, serving as President and is a long-time board member. She also serves on the board of the Shelby County Breastfeeding Coalition and is active in the TN Department of Health State Breastfeeding Initiative.
Ginger is a founding Board Member of the National Lactation Consultant Alliance. She is also currently serving as President of the Tennessee Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. We're so fortunate to have Ginger's experience and leadership 'on board' with NLCA!
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Board News
Board members Merrilee Gober, Teresa McCullen, and Marsha Walker recently participated in a panel discussion on the formula shortage crisis for the show Delivering Joy MD TV. The recording will air on Roku and is available on YouTube here.
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The US Infant Formula Shortage and the IBCLC®
The IBCLC® may receive questions from anxious parents, the media, and puzzled healthcare providers regarding infant feeding options during the infant formula shortage. NLCA has composed a statement on who can help parents, how parents can access infant formula, information regarding breastfeeding options, cautions, and resources. Review our statement here.
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