Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement
Congratulations to the 2025 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.
"These teams 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.
2025 VON Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement Recipients
- Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital for their work to implement a care bundle to optimize neurodevelopment in infants with BPD.
- Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital for their work to involve parents in mitigating painful and stressful procedures for infants.
- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford for their work to reduce unnecessary labs and painful procedures by decreasing the number of glucose and blood gases for premature infants.
- Manning Family Children’s Hospital for their work to optimize neurodevelopment in infants with BPD by reducing sleep disruption.
- Norton Children’s Hospital for their work to decrease the time before a parent’s first hold of their very low birth weight infant.
- Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center for their work to decrease rates of chronic lung disease in Very Low Birth Weight infants.
- Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital for their work to reduce the incidence of severe IVH in infants born <27 weeks gestation.
- St. Joseph Medical Center for their work to increase skin-to-skin care for infants born <30 weeks gestational age.
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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