Lactation Room Hospital

Fact Sheet #73A: Space Requirements for Employees to Pump Breast Milk at Work under the FLSA March 2025 Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), as amended by the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (the PUMP Act), most nursing employees have the right to reasonable break time and a private place to pump breast milk while at work. This right is available each time. Explore guidelines for designing lactation/wellness rooms in work and public spaces that are easy to use and offer comfort and respect to mothers.

Lactation Room Requirements F or many years lactation rooms have been recognized as a building amenity with advantages for both employer and employee. Benefits include increased workplace diversity, improved children's health, reduced absenteeism and increased productivity. Lactation Room Program WashU Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital launched the Lactation Room Program in 2014.

The program promotes healthy families with a campus-wide initiative to protect and support students, faculty, staff, trainees and visitors who breastfeed. A lactation room is the best way to support breastfeeding employees. Learn about designing a lactation room in the workplace from an IBCLC.

A fully equipped mothers' room includes: Refrigerator with freezer unit. Optionally, consider a unit that features individual milk lockers for each mom. Microwave Hospital.

MGB sponsors Lactation Resources, a program to help employees make the transition back onsite from maternity leave and allow employees to continue breastfeeding while at work. We are fortunate to be able to offer efficient electric Medela Breast Pumps in our comfortable, private lactation rooms, accessible only by the lactating employee. Lactation Room Locations and Resources Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Below is the current list of staff lactation rooms on campus.

If you have questions or need resources, please call the team of lactation consultants at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital at 727. Learn about Johns Hopkins University's lactation support program, which offers private space for expressing milk, along with supplies and support for those needing to express milk after returning to work. Lactation/wellness room design Mothers returning to the workplace after childbirth face challenges to express medically beneficial breastmilk while also reentering the workforce.

Companies that provide lactation rooms in the workplace help these employees achieve both of these goals. Public facilities increasingly provide Lactation and Mother's rooms for nursing due to growing demand.