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York City proclaims SIDS awareness day; officials urge safe-infant-sleep practices
Summary
Mayor Michael R. Helfrich issued a proclamation designating Oct. 25 as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) awareness day while York County coroner Pam Gaye and WellSpan neonatologist Dr. Michael Goodstein outlined safe-sleep guidance and local statistics to reduce sleep-related infant deaths.
Mayor Michael R. Helfrich proclaimed Oct. 25 as sudden infant death syndrome awareness day at a York City event where public health officials and clinicians urged parents and caregivers to follow established safe-sleep practices.
The proclamation noted that SIDS is the leading cause of death for infants 1 month to 1 year of age and reaffirmed the York City Bureau of Health’s commitment to education and outreach on safe infant sleep.
York County Coroner Pam Gaye, who investigators often call to examine sudden infant deaths, described the emotional and investigative work that follows these deaths and emphasized that many are linked to unsafe sleep environments. "Most of these situations are co-sleeping or an unsafe sleep environment," Gaye said, noting coroners typically visit homes or hospitals and that every sleep-related infant death in the county receives an autopsy.
Dr. Michael Goodstein, a neonatologist at WellSpan York Hospital and…
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