Membership Levels and Fees

VON supports interdisciplinary teams around the world dedicated to our shared vision of giving every infant and family the best start to life.

Core and Quality Circle membership allows all staff at the member center to access VON tools, resources, and programs. Teams can also join NICQ, which is a two-year project-based enhanced Quality Circle membership.

We provide no-cost Basic Access to select programs and resources to support individual health care professionals who are not affiliated with a VON member center but are striving to provide the highest quality care for infants and families.

Core Membership

Core members contribute to databases and receive extensive reporting with regional and international benchmarks to target clinical practices and patient outcomes. Select a database below for details and learn about data submission and support on the Database and Reporting page.

Cost varies dependent on the database. Group reporting and pricing is available.

Other features for Core Members include:

Quality Circle

Quality Circle members have full access to VON quality improvement and education resources to learn, measure, share, and improve together. Enrollment includes participation in the current iNICQ collaborative and membership will automatically renew each year.

Cost: Core membership + $7,500

Quality Circle features include:

  • Current iNICQ: Internet-based Newborn Improvement Collaborative for Quality (webinars, toolkits, online discussions, and other benefits)
  • QI Foundations course for entire multidisciplinary staff
  • Educational courses for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and Antibiotic Stewardship
  • Benchmarking measurement (VON Day Audits)
  • All Improvement Library resources
  • Community Forum
  • Recognition of center as “Quality Circle Member”
  • CME/CNE for all staff
  • MOC Part 4 for entire physician team
iNICQ All Care is Brain Care

Internet-based Newborn Improvement Collaborative for Quality (iNICQ)

All Care is Brain Care

This collaborative is a benefit of Quality Circle membership. Specific features of iNICQ include:

  • Toolkits outlining key evidence, potentially better practices, and change ideas
  • Community Forum and dedicated listserv to communicate with expert faculty and peers
  • Live webinar series
  • Topical Learning Communities for collaboration with other centers and deep dives in clinical topics
  • Support to implement Experience-Based Co-Design (EBCD)
  • Online classroom, including recorded webinars accessible any time for CE credit
  • Education for QI fundamentals for entire interdisciplinary team
  • Improvement stories from teams applying QI and EBCD methodologies
  • Support for peer-to-peer learning
  • Faculty review of improvement posters
  • VON Day Audits to provide baseline gap analysis and to track progress over time
  • Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Part 4 credits for entire physician team
  • CME, CNE, CPE for an unlimited number of team members
More about iNICQ: All Care is Brain Care
NICQ All Care is Brain Care

Newborn Improvement Collaborative for Quality (NICQ)

Two-year quality collaborative "All Care is Brain Care"

NICQ features and benefits include:

  • All Quality Circle features, including iNICQ and QI Foundations Course
  • Homeroom of 8-10 teams working on similar projects
  • Homeroom-dedicated faculty teams
  • Interactive electronic toolkit supporting evidence-based QI
  • Data transparency and custom VON data reports
  • Basic and advanced QI methods training
  • Community Forum and dedicated listservs to facilitate discussion
  • Onsite, in-person meetings

Cost: Core membership + $25,000 

More about NICQ

Basic Access

Basic Access supports improvement in newborn care through no-cost and publicly available resources for non-VON members, including: