News
Here's the recent news from PQCNC.
Perinatal quality collaboratives (PQCs) are state or multi-state networks of teams working to improve the quality of care for mothers and babies. PQCs have contributed to important improvements in health care and outcomes for mothers and babies, including: Reductions in deliveries before 39 weeks of pregnancy without a medical reason. Reductions in infections in neonatal intensive care units. Reductions in severe pregnancy complications. Read more...
The clOUDi Expert Team has been hard at work developing an action plan for our initiative launch January 2021. The care of infants at risk for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome is a critical element in this initiative. PQCNC conducted an NAS initiative from 2015-2016. At the time Eat Sleep and Console (ESC) was not widely discussed, but we did in that project learn that non-pharmacologic methods were critical to the successful treatment of NAS infants. Read more...
AIM COVID-19 Partner Resources - click for dwonloadable PDF with active links to resources Read more...
CDC has published infection prevention and control considerations for healthcare facilities providing obstetric care for pregnant patients with confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) or pregnant persons under investigation (PUI) in inpatient obstetric healthcare settings including obstetrical triage, labor and delivery, recovery and inpatient postpartum settings. Read more...
Introduction to the Mother and Baby Substance Exposure ToolkitWebinar, Mar 13, 2020 12:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)Objectives: At the completion of this webinar, participants will be able to: Read more...
Council on Patient Safety - Safety Action SeriesAn Interdisciplinary Look at Obstetric Care for Women with Opioid Use DisorderTuesday, February 11, 2020 | 2 p.m. ETRegister here OBJECTIVES Read more...
Due to the impact of Covid 19 (Coronavirus), we have had to make the very difficult decision to cancel the upcoming 2020 PQCNC Dialogues Meeting scheduled for March 30th in Wilmington, NC. Read more...
Perinatal Core Measures 06 and 07 - are you ready to respond? Read more...