News
Here's the recent news from PQCNC.
On January 7th PQCNC held its Annual Meeting and I was most grateful that WRAL expressed great interest in covering the event. My intention was that WRAL would have an opportunity to showcase for the state the tremendous work we all have done and will be doing to improve perinatal care in North Carolina. Read more...
Presentations from the 2014 Annual Meeting and Initiative Kick-off are here! Read more...
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...
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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.
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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...