Welcome to the Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North Carolina (PQCNC); a community of organizations, agencies and individuals committed to making North Carolina the best place to be born. To achieve our aim we commit to collaborating with everyone who shares an interest in improving the health and health care of women of childbearing age and/or infants in our state. North Carolina for too long has ranked in the lowest 10% of US states in infant mortality and far too many North Carolina babies are born sick or before completing 39 weeks of gestation. Using the expertise of families and front line health care providers, together with quality improvement science we will improve the triple bottom line: better outcomes for babies and mothers, better experiences for families when babies are born sick or prematurely and better value for each health care dollar.
Join our Team!
The Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North Carolina (PQCNC) is leading transformations in the delivery of value based perinatal healthcare in North Carolina and nationally. PQCNC is a statewide organization which includes 55 hospitals with delivery services, family representatives, perinatal medical and nursing providers, payer groups and state leaders united in their determination to make North Carolina the best place to be born. PQCNC conducts statewide quality improvement initiatives that focus on spreading best practice, partnerships with families and patients, and resource optimization. PQCNC is administratively based at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
Director for Family and Patient Partnerships
The PQCNC Director for Family and Patient Partnerships (DFPP) is a 1.0 FTE position to be filled by an individual with experience in maternal and/or newborn patient- and family-centered care. The PQCNC vision includes partnerships with patients and families as a key element in augmenting the value of perinatal care delivered across the state of North Carolina. This position is required in order to support the development of large scale quality improvement projects in hospital based maternal and newborn care across the state of North Carolina. PQCNC currently operates in 55 centers statewide. Approximately 20% of these centers currently have partnered with patients and families on projects. We are targeting 100% partnership in PQCNC facilities conducting PQCNC initiatives. Funders supporting our work, including BCBS NC, DMA and the ORHCC have all made it clear that they expect PQCNC to deliver on its promise to develop meaningful partnerships locally and at the state level with families and patients as we pursue our mission to make North Carolina the best place to be born.
The Director would be responsible for developing strategies that engage patients and families directly in supporting our mission to make North Carolina the best place to be born. The Director will adapt strategies which have been successful in other PQCNC initiatives, but will also explore new methods to work with patients and families involved in PQCNC newborn and maternal projects. The Director will advise initiative expert teams and lead centers in the pursuit of best patient and family partnership practices.
If you seek an opportunity to be on the forefront of transformations in perinatal healthcare delivery which will impact thousands of moms, babies and their families, contact us. UNC is an Equal Opportunity/ADA Employer.
For consideration, apply online at https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/4178 and attach CV with letter of interest to Martin McCaffrey, MD, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, UNC-CH, CB# 7596, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7596.
Clinical Initiative Manager
PQCNC is seeking an enthusiastic and determined perinatal nursing leader to serve as PQCNC’s Clinical Initiative Manager. This position will be a School of Medicine Faculty Appointment. The Initiative Manager will need to be a Registered Nurse with perinatal clinical experience (maternal, labor and delivery, newborn or neonatal critical care) within the past 3 years. Experience in nursing leadership in coordinating perinatal clinical care at the unit, clinic, hospital or system level is desirable. The Initiative Manager will use professional expertise and communication skills to assist in the development, organization, and execution of statewide quality improvement projects that include from 10-50 centers. The Initiative Manager will work in coordination with Lead Clinical Physicians for maternal and newborn projects, the PQCNC core team and individual initiative Expert Teams.
If you seek an opportunity to be on the forefront of transformations in perinatal healthcare delivery which will impact thousands of moms, babies and their families, contact us. UNC is an Equal Opportunity/ADA Employer.
For consideration, apply online here and attach CV with letter of interest to: Martin McCaffrey, MD, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, UNC-CH, CB# 7596, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7596.
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