News
Here's the recent news from PQCNC.
Thanks to the work of each participating institution we have learned a great deal about Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in North Carolina and the myriad issues surrounding standardizing and improving care. Read more...
"WakeMed Health & Hospitals in Raleigh will join with Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem and Vidant Health in Greenville, the health care system affiliated with East Carolina University, to form a new company that each says will allow them to gain benefits of scale, but still maintain their independence." Read more Read more...
Teams from three separate ongoing initiatives gathered September 2 in Raleigh to discuss results, plan for the next phases, and learn from the keynote address from Alison Steube, FACOG, MD, MSc “Creating Sustainable Change Using the Six Sources of Influence”…. Read more...
PQCNC is so proud to have had two of its members, Greg Cohoon and Julie Coates (pictured here with Tanya Lord, AHA Patient Engagement Consultant) attend the Symposium for Leaders in Healthcare Quality’s (SLHQ) 2nd Annual Quality and Safety Roadmap Meeting and the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Leadership Summit. Here’s what they had to say about their experience… Read more...
We have all been intently engaged in dealing with the challenges of NAS. As a neonatologist I reflexively bring lots of preconceived notions to the care of such infants. As we have developed this project over the last year, and I have spent more time with mothers of these infants, my view of the NAS world has changed. No doubt clinically trying to standardize communication, diagnosis, assessment, treatment and discharge planning for newborns at our facilities is an enormous task. Read more...
…of 12 states with greater than 100K deliveries per year, North Carolina and New Jersey tied for first at 2% Read more...
Conservative Management of Preeclampsia LS2 / Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome LS2/ Patient Family Engagement 2 KickoffMay 8, 2014McKimmon CenterRaleigh, NC9:00 - 3:30 Read more...
PQCNC had a number of presentations at the Pediatrics Academic Societies metting in Vancouver, Canada, May 3-6 2014...Nancy DeMaria, Clinical Initative Coordinator from PQCNC: Improving Exclusive Human Milk Rates in Well Baby Nurseries through a Collaborative, Hospital-Based Quality Improvement Initative Read more...