Initiatives

Following are the current initiatives we are working on:

  • How's Your Baby

    The goal of the How's Your Baby Initiative is to adapt and make available the parent survey tool "How's Your Baby?" developed by Bill Edwards, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Dartmouth-Hitchcock School of Medicine for use by individual centers to evaluate and improve the NCCC experience for families with a particular focus on understanding parent perceptions of readiness for discharge and parent satisfaction with care.

  • NC Immunization Registry

    The goal of the Immunization Registry Initiative is to enroll all newborns admitted to Newborn Critical Care nurseries in North Carolina in the state registry (NCIR) prior to discharge from the hospital.The North Carolina Immunization Registry (NCIR) is a secure, web-based clinical tool which has become the official source for North Carolina immunization information. The NCIR will take the place of handwritten charting of immunizations administered in the state.

  • Catheter Associated Blood Stream Infections (CABSI)

    With the potential to impact outcomes at every center and improve the health of a large population of North Carolina patients, and with recent support from the Division of Medical Assistance,, the goal of the Catheter Associated Blood Stream Infections (CABSI) Initiative is to reduce CABSI by 75% in participating Newborn Critical Care Centers by reducing the number of line days and by standardizing insertion and line maintenance.

  • Eliminating Elective Deliveries Under 39 Weeks Gestation

    The goal of this initiative is to eliminate elective deliveries under 39 weeks’ gestation without documented pulmonary maturity studies in participating hospitals

  • Human Milk and Breastfeeding: Increasing exclusivity in the hospital

    The exclusive human milk for babies (EHM4B) neonatal health initiative will focus on the use of human milk in hospitals for infant nutrition. Tracks have been designed for Newborn Critical Care Centers (NCCC) to focus on supports and barriers to getting mother’s milk for babies under 1500 grams and/or for maternity care centers to focus on supporting mothers choice to provide exclusive breastfeeding for their term infants. The initiative will reduce variations in care and increase the number of infants nourished by mother’s milk.

  • SIVB - Increasing the rate of vaginal delivery among low-risk, nulliparous women with a term, singleton, vertex baby
    The 2010-2011 maternal health initiative will focus on improving the rate of vaginal births among low-risk first-time mothers, women who come to labor and delivery intending to give birth vaginally but who may end up with a c-section, sometimes as a result of the failure to apply evidence-based, best practice care.  We will address best practices in induction of labor and augmentation of labor.