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 Thank you to all of the teams that have sent in so much baseline data! We are working hard to clean the data and look forward to sharing reports with you in January. Jessica will follow up individually with teams about specific data questions. There will be no weekly email next week while the PQCNC Support for Birth team scatters for the holidays and those of us in the office get ready for our January initiative launch. We wish you happy holidays and look forward to working with you in 2011!
Please read below for an important update about changes within PQCNC that will affect the structure of this initiative.-
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| An update from the PQCNC core team... |
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 Funding challenges:
PQCNC is now facing the prospect of a funding gap as of June 30, 2011. We are actively seeking funding from several foundations and are building partnerships with state organizations. This is a challenging year to be seeking support from any potential sponsor and at best we will hear about these applications in the spring. Our plans now are to modify the 2010-2011 PQCNC projects in order maximize the use of our existing funding, which expires on June 30.
Plans for the initiative:
Both the Support for Birth and Human Milk initiatives will have a more narrowly focused active phase from January to June and a sustainability phase beginning in July 2011. The initial learning sessions will be held in January 2011, as will monthly webinars from February to May. Final learning sessions in June 2011 will function as a transition to a focus on sustaining the gains made in the first half of the year. The website and data collection system will remain active, and data reports for hospital teams will be available until January 2012. If additional funding is obtained, we will broaden the focus of each initiative over the ensuing 6 months (July-December 2011) and a third learning session will be added in January 2012.
What does this mean for Support for Birth teams?
In order to bring about improvements in the vaginal birth rate in a more compressed timeframe, we will need to "hit the ground running" following the January learning sessions. We are going to focus in on practices specifically related to induction of labor, as this appears to be the area where there is the possibility for greatest impact on the vaginal birth rate for first-time mothers.
The four monthly webinars we will hold in February, March, April, and May will be structured as "virtual workshops" meaning that each hospital's full team is expected to participate actively in the session. They will be held from 7:30-9:00am to allow as many of your team members as possible to participate. Each month we will focus on a different area of practice, reviewing the evidence, hearing from hospitals that have implemented best practice care and discussing the challenges and opportunities for participating teams as you work to make improvements in each area. In June we will hold a final in-person half-day workshop where we review changes made during this initiative and look at how to sustain improvement over time. We will review these changes and the initiative schedule at the January learning sessions. Please contact us with questions or concerns at any time.
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Contact Kate
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Kate Berrien, RN, BSN, MS
UNC Center for Maternal & Infant Health
CB# 7181
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
kberrien@unch.unc.edu
Phone: 919-843-9336 Fax: 919-843-7866 |
