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Here's the recent news from PQCNC.

In which he suggests specific strategies and tactics that leadership and managers should practice to achieve our goal - A learning health care system is anchored on patient needs and perspectives and promotes the inclusion of patients, families, and other caregivers as vital members of the continuously learning care team... Read more...
Kangaroo Care - The Power of Skin to Skin Holding is a new video resource created by the Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North Carolina, and Mission Women's Health, based on the March of Dimes NICU Family Support® Close to Mesm parent education presentation.   Read more...
ACADEMIC PEDIATRICS 2013;13:S1–S4 - This supplement is intended to make readers aware of key developments in QI policy, practice, education, and evaluation research. Our goal is to stimulate additional sharing of lessons learned, whether through research publications or other means, and to encourage health care providers and researchers to become full participants in the current national movement toward the triple aim of better care, better population health, and more affordable care. Read more...
Improving the health of mothers and infants is an ongoing challenge throughout North Carolina, but the problems are particularly overwhelming in the eastern part of the state. The expansive area of Perinatal Care Region VI in Eastern North Carolina encompasses 29 counties and 22,000 annual births, 31% of which are to black mothers [1], and this region contains a disproportionate share of counties with the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality in North Carolina. Read more...
This video sums up my son's first year. He was born way too early, and the obstacles he had to overcome were really big… Read more...
An article describing PQCNC's CLABSI initiative which focused on reducing central line associated blood stream infections concluding: "A collaborative structure targeting team development, family partnership, unique bundle elements and strict reporting on line care produced the largest reduction in CLABSI rates for any multiinstitutional NICU collaborative." Read more Read more...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified a cluster of newborns in Tennessee with late vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB). VKDB is a serious, but preventable bleeding disorder that can cause bleeding in the brain. In each case, the newborn’s parents declined vitamin K injection at birth, mainly because they were unaware of the health benefits of vitamin K at birth. Read more...

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