2008 Annual Meeting & Quality Congress
We invite you to attend our Annual Meeting and 9th Annual Quality Congress in Washington, DC on December 6 and 7, 2008. Come discuss Network projects and plans at the Annual Meeting, hear from internationally respected experts in health care quality and safety at the Quality Congress and learn from other multidisciplinary NICU teams' improvement experiences at the Quality Learning Fair. Register now for the meetings and hotel.

2nd Annual NICU Video Festival: NICU Tube 2008. The Vermont Oxford Network's First Annual NICU Video Festival previewed to standing room only crowds in 2007. Don't miss this opportunity to be part of the 2nd annual NICU Video Festival and submit a short video about your NICU, staff, infants or families. Click here for details.

Nightingale Internet Reporting System
We are pleased to offer Nightingale - an online reporting system for members that provides secure real-time access to your hospital's data and to network data. Now you can view, print and analyze your data in a variety of ways including comparing your hospital's results with those of the Network as a whole and with subgroups of hospitals similar to yours. Trend data are available starting in 1990. Nightingale provides new flexibility to access and understand your data. It is available to Network Members only, sign up is required. Click here for more information.

The Registry for Neonatal Encephalopathy
The Vermont Oxford Network has established a Registry for Neonatal Encephalopathy. The Registry is enrolling newborn infants with documented encephalopathy to identify their demographic characteristics, associated perinatal factors, medical treatments, co-morbidities and outcomes. Click here to learn more about the registry and to listen to our multimedia presentations on neonatal encephalopathy. . .

New Study on Acuity-adjusted Staffing, Nurse Practice Environments and NICU Outcomes
We are working with researchers from the School of Nursing at the University of Pennslvania, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Dartmouth College, and the University of Pittsburgh to study the effects of nurse staffing on NICU patient outcomes. Participating NICUs will receive special confidential acuity adjusted staffing reports. For more information about this Robert Wood Johnson funded study click here. Please contact the study project manager Dr. Robyn Cheung if you are interested in learning more about this study.

The NIC/Q 2007 Collaborative
NICU Practice & Process-Putting It All Together
NICQ 2007, which began in January 2007, is the 5th in a series of intensive improvement collaboratives sponsored by the Vermont Oxford Network. Interdisciplinary teams from 46 institutions in North America are working together over two years to improve the quality and safety of medical care for newborn infants and their families by focusing on 7 critical themes. The final meeting of the NICQ 2007 Collaborative will be held September 12-14, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. Learn more . . .

The Delivery Room Management Trial
is perhaps our most ambitious effort ever. The DRM Trial will evaluate three distinct approaches to stabilization and support of premature infants at high risk of respiratory distress syndrome. Learn more . . .

Free Data Entry Software Available
Network Members can request a free copy of our data entry software called "eNICQ" to submit infant data electronically. Make the move from paper forms to electronic submission with this tool. Learn more . . .