With 30 teams registered, PQCNC is looking forward to launching its second maternal health initiative. A webinar will be held for all participating teams on Tuesday September 21 at 1pm to orient teams to the data collection form. Teams will collect data on nulliparous women with term, singleton, vertex fetuses (the "NTSV" population) in October and November 2010 to establish what their hospital's baseline c-section rate is in this population, as well as to identify practices that are associated with higher rates of vaginal birth. PQCNC has set a statewide goal of increasing the rate of vaginal birth in this population by 25%. All teams will attend a learning session in January 2011 where they will be asked to set a site-specific goal, as well as to develop an action plan of changes to test in an effort to increase the rate of vaginal birth. Dates and locations of the learning sessions will be announced at the end of September.
