News
Here's the recent news from PQCNC.
Phase II learning sessisons scheduled for ongoing PQCNC Initiatives:Conservative Management of Preeclampsia - February 11, 2015, McKimmon Center in RaleighNeoNatal Abstinence Syndrome - February 12, 2015, McKimmon Center in RaleighPlease visit the corresponding initiative page for more information and to register... Read more...
Our own Tara Bristol was named in the Caregiver Action Network’s Advancing Excellence: Best Practices in Patient and Family Engagement Recognition Program, a seven month long project to identify, recognize and publicize the best practices in patient and family caregiver engagement. Read more here. Read more...
Thanks to the work of each participating institution we have learned a great deal about pregnant women in North Carolina with hypertension in pregnancy. For the first time we know how many women have which diagnosis and which diagnoses most often lead to preterm deliveries. We know that the vast majority of women with hypertension in pregnancy receive steroids if they deliver before 34 weeks. Read more...
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...