In support of healthy hearts
The GFWC Lutz-Land O’ Lakes Woman’s Club supports women’s cardiac health and promotes the education of the warning signs for heart attacks and strokes. The club turned out in the color red for each of its February meetings and gatherings, to symbolize this serious health issue, for women in particular. For information, visit GFWCLutzLandOLakesWomansClub.org.
Pilot program
The Florida Department of Health in Pasco County (DOH-Pasco) is piloting a new program, Baby on Board, which allows exclusively breast-feeding mothers/employees of the department to bring their babies to work until the baby is 6 months old.
The program was introduced last year after DOH-Pasco received a Gold Level Florida Breast-feeding Friendly Employer Award.
DOH-Pasco also received the 2018 Gold Level Loving Support Award of Excellence for providing exemplary breast-feeding promotion and support activities.
The Baby on Board program complies with the Surgeon General’s 2011 Call to Action to Support Breast-feeding.
An internal survey revealed that the Baby on Board program was supported by 97.2 percent of the DOH-Pasco staff.
