VON Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement
Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement 2024
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 selective award recognizes six hospitals for their work in 2024. These multidisciplinary teams demonstrated their dedication to VON principles of quality improvement by meeting criteria including:
- Participation in a VON quality improvement collaborative
- Commitment of support from senior leadership
- Regular meetings with multidisciplinary team
- Inclusion of family partner on QI team
- Completion of VON’s Quality Improvement Foundations course
- Demonstration of quality improvement performance through identifying a SMART aim, applying formal QI methods, and measuring results
Projects of the 2024 Award Recipients
Duke Children’s
Don't Clamp the Cord: Standardization of delayed umbilical cord clamping (DCC) at the Duke Birthing Center
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Helen DeVos Children's Hospital
Improving Time to First Skin to Skin in Very Low Birthweight Infants
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Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center
Improving Breastmilk Culture to Optimize Nutrition in the NICU
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Lankenau Medical Center
All Care is Brain Care: Improving Skin to Skin by 72 Hours of Birth
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Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Improving Developmental Care for Neonates Through the Use of the iRainbow Tool
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Peyton Manning Children's Hospital
Small Baby Program Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital NICU
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