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.

11/13/2025

Let's learn more about VON's quality improvement process! The collaboratives are designed for the entire multidisciplinary team, including parents who are core faculty and contributing members of improvement teams. Expert faculty engage teams throughout the course of each VON collaborative and provide coaching to help teams present measurable improvement.

Our iNICQ level of membership is currently enrolling. To learn more, please visit https://bit.ly/3WV67bR .

Join us Wednesday, November 12 at 12ET for a discussion on the NICU environment. Faculty, including Robert White, MD; J...
11/07/2025

Join us Wednesday, November 12 at 12ET for a discussion on the NICU environment. Faculty, including Robert White, MD; John Zupancic, MD, MS, ScD; Roger F. Soll, MD; Danielle Ehret, MD, MPH, will discuss how infants are impacted by the sensory features of their care environment, including auditory and visual stimuli.

Register for this free webinar (with CEUs!) here: https://bit.ly/43gdvlQ .

A little known, yet fun fact about the VON database, is that any NICU can participate, regardless of level. As long as ...
11/05/2025

A little known, yet fun fact about the VON database, is that any NICU can participate, regardless of level. As long as your unit admits babies who need respiratory support for more than 24 hours, you qualify as a NICU by VON’s definition.

We welcome data from all NICU types. In fact, in Nightingale, our online reporting system, you can select to compare your data to like NICUs…meaning you will have data that compares to other Level II, III, or IV NICUs.

By including every kind of NICU, we ensure a more complete picture of neonatal care - reflecting the wide variety of units where fragile infants receive life-saving support. In short: more data, more perspectives, better care for babies.

To learn more about our databases, please visit https://bit.ly/3AXoNjm

Now that’s something to scream about! Collecting data is just the beginning. The real magic happens when teams use it t...
10/31/2025

Now that’s something to scream about!

Collecting data is just the beginning. The real magic happens when teams use it to drive quality improvement.

VON helps NICUs around the world transform numbers into knowledge and knowledge into action—because no team should face their data alone.

Discover how VON helps data come to life: https://bit.ly/4dSZQ7n

For many, the VON Quality Congress is the highlight of the year — a place where neonatal care teams from around the worl...
10/29/2025

For many, the VON Quality Congress is the highlight of the year — a place where neonatal care teams from around the world gathered to share knowledge, celebrate progress, and learn together. The pause in recent years may have led some to think the VON meeting was gone for good.

But here’s the truth: The VON Quality Congress is returning in 2026. This event will bring back the community of learning, innovation, and collaboration that has always defined our worldwide community. NICU professionals will once again come together to accelerate improvement for babies and families everywhere.

Mark your calendars for November 5-8, 2026 in Chicago, IL and stay tuned for more details!

Be sure to visit and bookmark https://public.vtoxford.org/annual-quality-congress/ to stay up to date!

10/27/2025

The VON team had an amazing time at the jENS conference in Belgrade, Serbia!

In addition to a great short oral presentation by Erika Edwards, we also had several Global Health team members present.

Key takeaways from the booth include:
⭐️: Database membership is open to centers in any country! Learn more on our website.
⭐️: QI programs are actively enrolling for 2026 with one more year of All Care is Brain Care. An added perk to joining is free registrations for a limited number of team members at the VON quality congress in November of 2026
⭐️: Grand Rounds are a free, online resource for any individual who wants to learn about evidence into practice. Our next live webinar is November 12. All recorded webinars are available online with a simple, individual login
⭐️: The VON Quality Congress will be back in Chicago in November 2026! We look forward to welcoming teams from all over the world!



https://public.vtoxford.org/

It’s a common misconception that VON serves primarily U.S. hospitals. In fact, VON is a global community of more than 1,...
10/22/2025

It’s a common misconception that VON serves primarily U.S. hospitals. In fact, VON is a global community of more than 1,500 NICUs in over 30 countries.

The diversity of this network is one of its greatest strengths. By sharing data, strategies, and outcomes across borders, VON accelerates learning and improvement worldwide. Better care for every baby, everywhere — that’s what global membership makes possible.

Learn more about VON’s global reach and see a list of member centers, please visit https://public.vtoxford.org/member-map/ .

The VON team is excited to see you at the jENS conference this week! In addition to hearing about all our programs at b...
10/20/2025

The VON team is excited to see you at the jENS conference this week! In addition to hearing about all our programs at booth 40, below is a list of opportunities to participate in presentations using VON data or by VON Global Health centers.

Short Oral Presentations:
Optimal Diagnostic Cut-Offs and Predictive Markers for Culture-Positive Neonatal Sepsis at a Tertiary Hospital in Ethiopia; Merhawit Hagos

Admission Hypothermia and Neonatal Mortality in the Ethiopian Neonatal Network; Kullehe Haddis Yeshanew

Current Staffing landscape in Neonatal Units in Africa: Insights from the African Neonatal Network; Redeat Workneh Tadesse

Exposure to Antenatal Steroids, CPAP, and Kangaroo Care: What is the most effective bundle of interventions to reduce mortality among preterm infants in resource-limited settings?; Erika Edwards

Donor Human Milk in Ethiopia: Pre-Implementation Perspectives from Mothers with Small or Sick Newborns Admitted to the NICU; Redeat Workneh Tadesse

Parallel Sessions:
A Quality Improvement Project on Reducing Admission Hypothermia in a Neonatal Intensive Care unit at a Tertiary Center, Addis Ababa ; Ethiopia; Kullehe Haddis Yeshanew

Impact of the Ethiopian Neonatal Network- Mixed Methods Analysis and Evaluation; Mahlet Gizaw

Poster Presentations:
Short-term outcomes and associated factors among low-birthweight infants discharged from the Neonatal ward, St Paul Hospital Mellinnium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Workineh Tesfaye Chimssa

A Quality Improvement Project to Improve the Knowledge of Nurses Working at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit(NICU): A Pre - and Post - Test Study; Firehiwot Markos Mekuria

Registration is now open for our next Grand Rounds: NICU Environment. Infants are impacted by the sensory features of th...
10/17/2025

Registration is now open for our next Grand Rounds: NICU Environment. Infants are impacted by the sensory features of their care environment, including auditory and visual stimuli. Behavioral and structural changes have been recommended to minimize noxious auditory stimuli and to promote positive experiences.

These online learning and discussion opportunities are supported by the work of dedicated VON teams and faculty and informed by the VON Institute for Evidence-Based Practice, and are intended to advance evidence into practice through sound quality improvement methods. These free, 1 hour webinars include CEUs!

To register, please visithttps://bit.ly/4qbSjH8

Yes, VON data has powered some of the most important neonatal research in the world. But its value doesn’t stop there. T...
10/15/2025

Yes, VON data has powered some of the most important neonatal research in the world. But its value doesn’t stop there. Through Nightingale, VON provides real-time benchmarking that helps NICUs compare their outcomes with peers, identify gaps, and measure improvement. This data supports frontline teams, not just researchers, in making daily decisions that improve care. The data can also be used to drive quality improvement projects, both with VON and at the hospital level.

Benchmarking transforms data into action — turning numbers into better outcomes for babies and families.

Learn more about benchmarking: https://public.vtoxford.org/data-and-reports/

10/13/2025

As neonatology has substantially improved survival rates over the years, it is more important than ever to do what we can to ensure infants and families have their best start to life beyond the NICU. To do so, we must safeguard an especially vulnerable and important organ: the brain.

VON’s Internet-based Newborn Improvement Collaborative for Quality (iNICQ) brings teams together to use local and collective data to guide improvement on a designated topic. Our Practice Gap Assessment for each topic helps you identify areas your team can improve at the local level.

Benefits of joining iNICQ for 2026 include:
⭐Live webinar series: includes CEUs
⭐Additional recorded lessons: includes CEUs
⭐Online discussion forum and email listserv
⭐Potentially better practices/change ideas and clinical examples
⭐Foundational QI resources to guide structured improvement processes
⭐All online education (17+ hours of CEUs): Quality Improvement Foundations, Responding to NAS, Collaborative Spotlight
⭐Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Part 4 credits for entire physician team with completion of a poster
⭐Exclusive sessions at the 2026 VON Quality Congress: coming back in November 2026 in Chicago, IL!
⭐Complimentary registration at the VON Quality Congress for 4 clinical team members; 2 senior leaders; and unlimited family partners

To get more information or register your team, please visit: https://public.vtoxford.org/quality-education/brain-care/

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