MI Collaborative Mission
The Michigan NICU Quality Collaborative, a consortium of Neonatal Intensive Care Units, is to provide continuing improvements in the health of Neonates in Michigan.
Change
Process and System Thinking
Evidence Based Practice
Collaborative Learning
From the pen of Dr Padmani Karna, MD:
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The MI Collaborative gives an opportunity to network with other MI NICU's and embark upon quality improvement projects by NICUs at state level
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Quality Improvement is not Easy but Worth the Effort
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The Goals for the MI VON Collaborative for 2009-2010 were:
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As a result of the 2009 MI VON initiative, most centers demonstrated decrease in nosocomial infections in their units:
Consistent Care For Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Infants
Von iNICQ 2013 Controversies in Caring For Infants and Families Affected by Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
(Education funded by Medicaid and MDCH for this initiative for all NICU and interested level 2 nurseries)
Goals: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) Michigan Quality Improvement
- Capture current incidence of Pharmacological treated NAS infants in MI
- Observe influence of Vermont Oxford Network (VON) NAS education on car practice at MI centers
- To capture consistent and reliable data for MI NAS babies cared at NICU
- Study the impact of VON NAS QI on cost of NAS babies in MI
NAS Toolkit (powerpoint)
- ACOG (PowerPoint)
- AAP Recommendations (PowerPoint)