To help build and strengthen working relationships with local birthing hospitals and increase appropriate referrals to Early Intervention, Infant Toddler Early Intervention (EI) County Coordinators are invited to participate in the Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative’s (PA PQC) Learning Session on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM. This is a great opportunity for EI programs to connect with their local NICU, birthing hospital, or even affiliated pediatric offices to increase referrals to EI. Connecting families to EI services is one of the PA PQC’s key interventions. Meet champions from the NICUs and birthing hospitals who share your goals.
The Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative (PA PQC) includes 61 birthing hospitals/NICUs and 14 health plans from across the Commonwealth that are actively identifying perinatal processes that need to be improved and quickly adopting best practices to achieve common aims. As an action arm of the Pennsylvania Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC), the PA PQC provider teams’ aims include improving the identification of and care for maternal Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). Learn more about the PA PQC’s Maternal OUD and NAS initiatives via those hyperlinks.
The other parts of the PA PQC learning session will focus on the OUD Centers of Excellence from 8:45 to 9:15 am, and include a keynote on how to use quality improvement methods to improve health equity from 10:15 to 11:15 am.
Please contact Pauline Taylor (taylor@jhf.org) with any questions about the PA PQC and this Learning Session.