Eight hospitals have received the Vermont Oxford Network Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement for their work caring for infants.
The award is given to VON member teams who demonstrate dedication to quality improvement and the organization’s core values, including measurement, evidence, families, equity and collaboration. To be eligible, members must have participated in the VON database for at least one year, participate in current quality improvement collaboratives and have quality improvement initiatives. Learn more about the award here.
This year, all the winning hospitals had quality projects around the health and well-being of infants.
Here are the 2025 winners along with the program that earned recognition:
- Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital (Houston): Implemented a care bundle to optimize neurodevelopment in infants with BPD.
- Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital (Grand Rapids, Mich.): Involved parents in mitigating painful and stressful procedures for infants.
- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (Palo Alto, Calif.): Reduced unnecessary labs and painful procedures by decreasing the number of glucose and blood gases for premature infants.
- Manning Family Children’s Hospital (New Orleans): Optimized neurodevelopment in infants with BPD by reducing sleep disruption.
- Norton Children’s Hospital (Louisville, Ky.): Decreased the time before a parent’s first hold of their very low birth weight infant.
- Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center (Wilmington, N.C.): Decreased rates of chronic lung disease in very low birth weight infants.
- Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital (Indianapolis): Reduced the incidence of severe IVH in infants born fewer than 27 weeks into gestation.
- St. Joseph Medical Center (Reading, Pa.): Increased skin-to-skin care for infants born less than 30 weeks into gestation.
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