VON Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement
Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement 2025
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 eight hospitals for their work in 2025. 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 2025 Award Recipients
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
POKE Project: Reducing Unnecessary Labs and Painful Procedures
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Helen DeVos Children's Hospital
Improving Parent Participation in Mitigating Painful and Stressful Procedures
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Peyton Manning Children's Hospital
Implementation of Neuroprotective Care Bundle to Reduce the Incidence of Severe IVH in Infants Born at < 27 weeks gestation
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St. Joseph Medical Center
Introducing and Increasing Skin to Skin Contact for Babies Born < 30 weeks Prior to 72 Hours of Life
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Manning Family Children's
SNOOZE to Protect Little Lungs and Boost Early Brain Development
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Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center Betty H. Cameron Women and Children's
On track for change: Better Lung Care is on the Horizon!
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Norton Children's Hospital
First Moments Matter - A QI Project to Improve Time to First Hold for Very Low Birth Weight Infants
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Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital
Improving every breath: Advancing care for infants with BPD
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