July reports have been distributed
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July reports were sent in the past few days. Please contact Jessica jphipps@email.unc.edu if you have any questions about your report or if your team did not receive a report. As we discussed during the August webinar, the deadline for entering August data has been extended to September 20. Please ensure your team will be able to make this deadline, so that we will still be able to get August reports out by the end of September.
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| CCNC's Pregnancy Home program and SIVB initiative share a common goal |
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Community Care of North Carolina's 14 local networks have enrolled over 250 practices and clinics so far as Pregnancy Medical Home practices for Medicaid patients. These practices represent about 700 individual providers who have agreed to meet the performance goals of this program. One of these goals is to maintainn a primary c-section rate at or below 16% among patients at term with a singleton, vertex fetus (this includes multiparous patients). Each CCNC local network has an "OB team" consisting of a physician champion and a nurse coordinator who will be working with providers to help them reach this goal. This work in the ambulatory setting reinforces what the SIVB hospitals are trying to put in place on the inpatient side. It may make sense for SIVB hospitals to collaborate with their local CCNC network's OB team. For more information, including contact information for the nurse coordinator in your area, visit this website.
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A final word...
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This email marks my final week coordinating maternal health initiatives for PQCNC. Over the past two and a half years, I have been inspired by the level of commitment shown by so many North Carolina hospitals to improve the quality of care provided to mothers and babies in our state. It has been truly impressive to see the significant improvement that can be achieved so quickly as hospitals have voluntarily opted to work together at the state level and to find creative approaches to reaching your goals. PQCNC hospital teams have made a choice to dedicate time and resources to collecting and sharing data (thank you!) so that we can learn from each other and as a state how best to meet the quality improvement goals we have set for ourselves. I wish the SIVB teams ongoing success for the duration of this initiative and look forward to collaborating with you in my role with CCNC's Pregnancy Home program. Please stay in touch (kberrien@n3cn.org), and keep up the excellent work on an already successful initiative to increase the rate of vaginal birth among NTSV women.
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