Northeastern Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative

Contact Information

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Learning Collaborative Sessions

• Please refer to the main PA PQC website for upcoming sessions: papqc.org

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Currently Involved Sites

• Evangelical Community Hospital 

• Geisinger Health System

• Guthrie Robert Packer Memorial Hospital 

• Lehigh Valley Hospital - Schuylkill 

• Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono

• Moses Taylor Hospital 

• Mount Nittany Medical Center 

• UPMC Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital 

• UPMC - Susquehanna Williamsport Regional Medical Center

• Wayne Memorial Hospital

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Benefits of Joining

• Work across disciplines and the perinatal continuum of care to improve systems and processes of care for mothers and their infants

• Earn continuing education credits for participation in quarterly in-person learning collaboratives

• Receive virtual (PA PQC) and in-person support (NEPaPQC) for quality improvement projects

• Access VON’s NAS Universal Training Program and the VON Day Audits to become a Center of Excellence 

• Access an online data portal to trend your facility’s outcomes and anonymously compare with other teams 

• Adopt best practices and formalize quality improvement initiatives to improve performance on quality metrics

• Highlight successes and results of best practices at your organization

• Access to resources on the project’s websites (PA PQC)

• Build quality improvement knowledge and capacity applicable beyond the scope of perinatal care

• Connect with other hospital teams to share strategies, identify lessons learned, and overcome barriers

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