TABLE 3.

Among hospitals not implementing ideal^a rooming-in practices, reasons healthy full-term breastfed infants are removed from their mothers’ room by hospital characteristics, mPINC 2015

Hospital characteristic	Number of hospitalsb	Percentage of hospitals reporting removing >50% of infants for the following reasons
		Pediatric rounds	Hearing test	Heel stick	Infant photos	Infant’s bath
Total	1755–1888	35.5	73.2	65.5	25.4	40.2
Hospital type
Private (for profit)	227–238	56.5	63.7	72.3	22.5	54.7
Government	334–349	36.0	76.8	66.7	35.3	48.6
Nonprofit/nongovernment	1177–1212	31.2	74.3	64.2	23.3	35.6
Military	17–19	10.5	68.4	63.2	17.7	5.3
Teaching hospital
Yes	132–137	19.0	56.2	38.0	3.8	22.8
No	1623–1688	36.6	74.8	68.0	27.2	41.6
Size (annual number of births)
1–249	326–345	24.5	90.4	77.3	44.2	49.9
250–499	376–393	37.8	88.3	76.8	41.0	45.2
500–999	389–408	43.7	76.2	70.1	28.8	41.0
1000–1999	389–400	37.4	63.0	57.4	9.8	35.7
2000–4999	302–310	32.0	47.4	45.0	3.6	31.2
≥5000	31–32	28.1	40.6	43.8	6.3	9.7
Geographic region
Mid-Atlantic	184–187	41.7	75.4	63.6	21.7	42.7
Midwest	402–417	27.7	83.2	69.6	29.6	29.6
Mountain Plains	297–306	32.6	86.9	70.5	32.3	41.5
Northeast	171–185	23.4	75.1	60.3	9.4	26.2
Southeast	302–313	60.9	66.7	70.3	30.5	56.7
Southwest	218–228	44.3	59.0	63.2	25.2	54.2
Western	223–236	14.7	56.4	52.6	16.6	29.1

^aIdeal defined as ≥90% of infants rooming-in >23 h per day.

^bNumber of hospitals varies due to missing response.