Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement
Congratulations to the 2024 Recipients!
About the VON Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement
The annual VON Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement recognizes VON member teams who demonstrate dedication to VON core values of quality improvement: measurement, evidence, families, equity, and collaboration.
"The six awardees have demonstrated how interdisciplinary newborn care teams, including parents as working members, with support from organizational leadership, can apply quality improvement science to improve the health and well being of the infants and families we serve." - Jeffrey Horbar, MD, Vermont Oxford Network President and CEO.
2024 VON Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement Recipients
- Duke Children’s for their work to standardize delayed umbilical cord clamping.
- Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital for their work to increase the number of infants receiving skin-to-skin care within the first 72 hours of life.
- Lankenau Medical Center for their work to reduce rates of severe IVH and improve time to skin-to-skin care.
- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford for their work decreasing the time between birth and when “kangaroo care” is implemented.
- Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center for their work to improve rates of infants discharged home receiving breastmilk, which is important for gut-health, life-long bonding with the mother, and other benefits.
- Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital for their work to improve rates of survival and decrease the severity and frequency of lifelong conditions for infants born <27 weeks gestation.
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