Vermont Oxford Network

Vermont Oxford Network Transforming data into action to help save babies lives.

Vermont Oxford Network (VON) is a nonprofit voluntary collaboration of health care professionals working together as an interdisciplinary community to change the landscape of neonatal care. Founded in 1988, VON is now comprised of teams of health professionals representing neonatal intensive care units and level I and II care centers around the world, in support of our mission to improve the quality and safety of medical care for newborn infants and their families through a coordinated program of research, education, and quality improvement projects.

We are back!  The VON team is so excited to announce our return to Chicago, IL in 9 months!  November 5-8 we invite you ...
02/05/2026

We are back! The VON team is so excited to announce our return to Chicago, IL in 9 months! November 5-8 we invite you to gather in community as we share evidence based practices updates and quality improvement projects. Please visit our website for a preliminary agenda and to hear more about registration.

https://bit.ly/VONQC

Join us this Wednesday for the first Grand Rounds of 2026!  You can register at https://bit.ly/3Zql0E8
02/02/2026

Join us this Wednesday for the first Grand Rounds of 2026! You can register at https://bit.ly/3Zql0E8

As members of the iNICQ topic group Neuroprotective Lung Strategies, the team at Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medi...
01/30/2026

As members of the iNICQ topic group Neuroprotective Lung Strategies, the team at Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center demonstrated excellence in Quality Improvement with their project to reduce chronic lung disease. With an overall goal to improve chronic lung disease rates, this center tracked unplanned extubations, oxygen saturation parameters, and the use of histograms to promote oxygen weaning.

To learn more about this project and all Excellence in Quality Improvement Award recipients, please visit https://bit.ly/49lEOyz.

Today we celebrate Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, a 2025 Excellence in Quality Improvement award recipient.  Recognizi...
01/28/2026

Today we celebrate Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, a 2025 Excellence in Quality Improvement award recipient. Recognizing that parents play a key role in every day care, this center worked to increase parent presence and participation in pain reduction strategies, including during 2 month immunizations.

To learn more about this project and the other 2025 award recipients, please visit https://bit.ly/49lEOyz.

The Vermont Oxford Network team is proud to announce another new publication from our Global Health team. This study, co...
01/27/2026

The Vermont Oxford Network team is proud to announce another new publication from our Global Health team. This study, co-lead by Dr. Danielle Ehret and the VON global health team members, examines how participating in a structured neonatal quality improvement community in Ethiopia was associated with measurable improvement in care processes and outcomes from 2018-2022. The findings highlight how data-driven collaboration and systems-level approaches can strengthen neonatal care in low-resources settings.

To read the whole article, please visit: https://bit.ly/3YLOgoH

Today we highlight the work of Norton Children's Hospital, an iNICQ team member in our Bundling Care to Reduce Severe IV...
01/26/2026

Today we highlight the work of Norton Children's Hospital, an iNICQ team member in our Bundling Care to Reduce Severe IVH topic group. As part of their work to reduce severe IVH while also enhancing parent’s experience in the NICU, this center worked to change the time to first skin-to-skin in infants born less than 32 weeks.

To learn more about this project and all Excellence in Quality Improvement Award recipients, please visit https://bit.ly/49lEOyz.

Congratulations to the team at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital for their work to improve sleep for infants with BPD...
01/23/2026

Congratulations to the team at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital for their work to improve sleep for infants with BPD. The team created a care bundle to protect sleep and promote neurodevelopment of infants with BPD. It included communication with families, providers and bedside staff to limit nighttime interruptions and encourage day time schedule.

To learn more about this project and all the Excellence in QI Award recipients, please visit https://bit.ly/49lEOyz .

As members of our NICQ topic group Promoting Parental Wellbeing and Health Equity, award recipients St. Joseph Medical C...
01/22/2026

As members of our NICQ topic group Promoting Parental Wellbeing and Health Equity, award recipients St. Joseph Medical Center proudly focused on skin to skin rates in their NICU. To enhance parent's experience in the NICU while also promoting neurodevelopment of ELBW infants, this center worked to increase their skin to skin time by enhancing the time to first hold and frequency of holding, even during the 72 hour midline period. Amazing work!

To learn more about this and all 2025 Excellence in Quality Improvement Award recipients, please visit https://bit.ly/49lEOyz

Announcing our first Grand Rounds of 2026: Evidence to Practice: Transfusion ThresholdsTransfusion thresholds for packed...
01/21/2026

Announcing our first Grand Rounds of 2026:
Evidence to Practice: Transfusion Thresholds

Transfusion thresholds for packed red blood cells and platelets have been evaluated in multiple RCTs and meta- analyses. Join us for a webinar and discussion focused on transfusion thresholds for blood products in critically ill preterm infants.

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time

To Register: https://bit.ly/4b4uNqM

In the Optimizing Neurodevelopment for Infants with BPD topic group, the team at Manning Family Children's focused on sl...
01/20/2026

In the Optimizing Neurodevelopment for Infants with BPD topic group, the team at Manning Family Children's focused on sleep. For infants with BPD, sleep is essential to lung recovery and brain development, therefore this team worked to improve prolonged sleep periods with the development of a SNOOZE project with a goal of reducing nighttime interventions and disruptions.

To learn more about this project and the other 2025 award recipients, please visit https://bit.ly/49lEOyz

Dr. King's timeless message reminds us that advocacy and action for better health outcomes can't wait. Today, VON's comm...
01/19/2026

Dr. King's timeless message reminds us that advocacy and action for better health outcomes can't wait. Today, VON's community of clinicians answers that call, building a brighter future for babies and their families. Learn more about our health equity work and toolkit, visit https://public.vtoxford.org/health-equity/.

For the 2nd year in a row, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital has received the VON Award for Excellence in Quality Impro...
01/16/2026

For the 2nd year in a row, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital has received the VON Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement. For 2025, they participated in the Reducing Pain and Pokes topic group. Their project focused on reducing painful procedures and the number of pokes an infant receives during the first 14 days of life. To do this, the team implemented consolidated lab draws and the use of transcutaneous monitoring to limit the lab draws for blood gases and blood sugars.

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