Baptist Women’s Hospital and Regional One recently partnered to host a two-day Vermont Oxford Network meeting. During the first day of the conference, Baptist Women’s Hospital team members gave presentations and led tours of the hospital. In addition, former neonatal intensive care unit families spoke to attendees about their stay in the unit. Nine centers from across the nation attended the meeting.
Founded in 1988, Vermont Oxford Network is a nonprofit voluntary collaboration of health care professionals working together as an interdisciplinary community to change the landscape of neonatal care. Teams of health professionals representing NICUs and level I and II care centers around the world are part of the network, whose mission is to improve the quality and safety of medical care for newborns and their families through a coordinated program of research, education and quality improvement projects.
Baptist joined the network in 1992, and today, Baptist Women’s Hospital participates in a Newborn Improvement Collaborative each year where hospital team members work intensively on a specific quality improvement area for two or three years in conjunction with about 10 other centers from across the network.