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Upcoming
important dates, next steps for the SIVB Initiative...
(The Support for Birth initiative's weekly email newsletter comes out every Tuesday. As a reminder, it is your job as key contact to share relevant information with other team members at your hospital.)
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| Learning Session 1 in Winston Salem next week... |
|  We are looking forward to seeing many of you next Tuesday in Winston Salem! Below are some details:
When: Tuesday, January 11, 2011. Plan to arrive between 8:30-9:00am for continental breakfast. We will begin promptly at 9am and end promptly at 3:30pm.
Where: Forsyth Medical Center Conference Center. Click here for a link to the Learning Session 1 webpage which contains specific instructions about where to park and a Google maps link where you can download directions.
What to bring: Your team - including, at a minimum, a physician champion, a nurse champion, and a senior hospital administrator. If you have not done so already, please confirm with Jessica Phipps exactly who will be representing your hospital at the learning session (jphipps@email.unc.edu). Also - bring your enthusiasm for improving the quality of maternity care for women in North Carolina.
How to prepare: One representative from each team will introduce your team to the group. You will also be asked to share one challenge your team is facing in addressing the c-section rate and/or one opportunity you have identified to increase the vaginal birth rate at your hospital.
For those teams who will be joining us in Raleigh on January 25, details about the location are also available on the SIVB Learning Session 1 webpage.
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Learning Session 1 Hotels
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|  If you will need to spend the night of January 10 in Winston Salem, there are hotels convenient to the conference center which offer group rates. You must call the hotel directly and request the "FMC Conference Center" rate.
1) SpringHill Suites by Marriott Winston-Salem RATE: $72.00 plus tax
1015 Marriott Crossing Way
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
336-765-0190
Moderate up-scale hotel offering Complimentary Hot Breakfast, 32" TV, Complimentary internet & USAToday, 24-hour Fitness Center, and in-suite refrigerator & microwave.
2) Comfort Suites RATE: $62.00 plus tax
200 Capitol Lodging Court
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27103
(336) 774-0805 Comfortable and clean hotel offering complimentary breakfast. Located next to Outback Steak House.
3) Holiday Inn Express RATE: $72.99 plus tax
110 Miller Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
(336) 721-0220 In addition to complimentary breakfast and fitness center, the hotel offers courtesy shuttle to and from the conference center.
If you will need to spend the night of January 24 in Raleigh, the McKimmon Center lists several hotels in the area that offer group rates. Click this link to access the list.
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| A reminder of changes in the timeframe/structure of this initiative... |
|  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 |
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