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ILPQC 9th Annual Conference

Thursday October 28th  | 8am – 4:15 CST

ILPQC 2021 Annual Conference Agenda

  • 8:00 – 9:00 am

    Welcome address & Collaboration in Action: Celebrating Progress of ILPQC Initiatives –

    Slides

    Ann Borders, MD, MSc, MPH with Leslie Caldarelli, MD and Justin Josephsen, MD

  • 9:00 – 9:45 am

    TeamBirth PVB Plenary- Neel Shah, MD, MPP

  • 9:45 – 9:50 am

    Break

  • 9:50-10:35 am

    Antibiotic Stewardship: Beyond the Sepsis CalculatorKaren Puopolo, MD, PhD

  • 10:35-11:30 am

    State PQC Leaders Panel: National Perspectives on Improving Perinatal Care-

    Slides

    Marilyn Kacica, MD, MPH (NY), Barbara O’Brien, MS, RN (OK), & Munish Gupta MD MMSc (MA)

  • 11:45 – 12:45 pm

    Lunch & Poster session

  • 12:45-1:30 pm

    NY State Birth Equity Improvement Project –

    Slides

    Marilyn Kacica, MD, MPH

  • 1:30 – 2:15 pm

    Bridging the Gap: Families Sharing their Experiences to Improve Care Linda Suleiman, MD & Wanda Irving, MPA

  • 2:15-2:30 pm

    Break

  • 2:30 – 4:00

    Breakout Sessions: Targeting Key Strategies for Success as we plan for 2022

    OB Session Slides

    Neonatal Session Slides

    Patient, Family & Community Session

2021 Annual Conference E-Folder

Quality Improvement Poster Session

We encourage you to complete the ILPQC 2021 9th Annual Conference Poster Session Participation Raffle Form after viewing Abstract Poster submissions on the ILPQC 2021 Quality Improvement Poster Session. 

Four lucky winners will be randomly selected to win a $50 Amazon gift card and must attend the wrap-up session to claim their prize.

Questions/Comments for poster authors? Please email info@ilpqc.org with the poster title and we’re happy to connect you with the poster authors.

OB QI Projects

MNO-OB Posters:

Early Recovery After Surgery: Reduction in Opioids: Postoperative and RX at Discharge (Elmhurst Hospital)

OUD Validated Screening Tool (Little Company of Mary Medical Center)

Implementation of Opioid Use Disorder Screening and Treatment Plan for Pregnant Patients (University of Chicago)

Making A differences One Screen at a Time “Navigating the Road to Recovery” (UI Health)

PVB Posters:

Promoting Vaginal Birth (OSF St. Francis Medical Center)

Promoting Vaginal Birth (SSM St. Mary’s- St. Louis)

Nulliparus/Term/Singleton/Vertex (NTSV) Cesarean Delivery Rates (MaNeal Hospital)

Reducing Primary Cesarean Section Rates in Nulliparous, Term, Singleton, and Vertex (NTSV) Patients (AMITA Health Bolingbrook)

Creating Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Reduce NTSV Cesarean Sections (Condell Medical Center)

Promoting Vaginal Birth (Edward Hospital)

The Cost-Effectiveness of Promoting Vaginal Birth: A Quality Improvement Project (Loyola University Medical Center)

Promoting Vaginal Delivery (Memorial Hospital of Carbondale)

Creating Culture Change to Promote Vaginal Birth (Northwest Community Healthcare)

Promoting Vaginal Births (NM Palos Hospital)

Get Out of the Way! – Promoting Vaginal Births (Northwestern Memorial Hospital)

Roll On! Promoting Vaginal Birth (OSF Heart of Mary Medical Center)

Intentional Labor Support as a Method to Reduce Primary Cesarean (Rush University Medical Center)

Promoting Vaginal Birth in an Innovative,  Midwifery-Led Labor and Delivery Unit (Saint Anthony Hospital)

A Quality Improvement Project: Regarding Promoting Vaginal Birth at a Public Hospital in Chicago (Stroger Hospital of Cook County)

Reduction of Cesarean Delivery in the “NTSV” Population by Promoting Vaginal Birth (University of Chicago Medical Center)

Positioning the Parturient for a Positive Labor & Birth (UI Health)

It’s a Matter of Timeliness- Hardwiring the Plan of Care to Reduce the Nulliparous Term Singleton Vertex (NTSV) Cesarean Section Rate Through Collaboration (NM Delnor Hospital)

Birth Equity Posters:

Birth Equity – Launching the Initiative (AMITA Health Alexian Brothers Medical Center)

Birth Equity – Tackling the Elephant in the Room (SSM St. Mary’s)

Sequential Screening for Social Determinants of Health May Improve Outcomes For non-Hispanic Black Pregnant Patients (Stroger Hospital of Cook County)

 Other OB Projects:

Improving Chlorhexidine Treatment Compliance prior to Surgical Procedures in the Family Birth Center (University of Chicago Medical Center)

HIV Screening Compliance in the Family Birth Center (University of Chicago Medical Center)

Standardizing Team Response in OB Urgent Cases (Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital)

Driving Sustainable Change through Multidisciplinary Obstetric Skills & Drills Simulations (UI Health)

“Escaping” from Traditional Competency Verification: The “Wright” Way to Validate Competency (Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center)

Walk In My Shoes: A Nurse-Physician Shadow Program 2.0 (Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center)

Neonatal/Pediatric QI Projects

BASIC Posters:

Reduction of Antibiotic Administration in Well Appearing Neonates Born to Mothers with Chorioamnionitis Neonatal Antimicrobial Stewardship: Baby Steps to Big Success (Advocate Lutheran General Hospital)

Neonatal Antibiotic Stewardship (AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center Hinsdale)

BASIC Quality Improvement Project (AMITA St. Alexis Medical Center)

Implementation of Early Onset Sepsis (EOS) Calculator and Reduction of Neonatal Antibiotic Exposure (Little Company of Mary Medical Center)

Down to the BASICs: Babies Antibiotic Stewardship Improvement Collaborative (Loyola University Medical Center)

BASIC Initiative (MacNeal Hospital)

BASIC Quality Improvement Project in Newborns: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Northwest Community Healthcare)

Optimizing antibiotic use and parental education for early onset sepsis (OSF St. Francis Children’s Hospital of Illinois)

Improving Newborn Antibiotic Stewardship at Silver Cross Hospital (Silver Cross Hospital)

The Basics: Consistent Early Onset Sepsis and Antibiotic Education for Caregivers (Rush University Medical Center)

Other Neonatal Projects:

Benefits of Human Donor Milk for Term Infants (Northwest Community Healthcare)

Transcutaneous Bilirubin Monitoring in the Neonatal ICU (Advocate Lutheran General Hospital)

Minimizing Sudden Unexpected Post Natal Collapse (SUPC): An Emerging complication in term newborns  (Northwest Community Healthcare)

Caregiver Use of the Newborn Safe Sleep Environment (University of Chicago Medical Center)

Decreasing Unintended Extubation Rate in a Level IIIb NICU (University of Chicago Medical Center)

WWW.NEOCIRC.ORG is an Effective Multidisciplinary Resource for Neonatal Circumcision (University of Chicago Medical Center)

More MOM (Mother’s Own Milk) Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase Breast Milk at Discharge in an Urban NICU (UI Health)

A Retrospective Study of Parent’s First-Hand Experience with Premonitions and other Anamalous Aspects of SIDS Phenomenon (University of Chicago Medical Center)

Breastfeeding and Beyond: The Infant Feeding Preference Huddle (NM Delnor Hospital)

Growing Provider Confidence in Neonate Resuscitation Skills (Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center)

Patient and Family Engagement

Collaborator Booths

Click and drag below to scroll through the 10 collaborator booths for awesome perinatal resources!

Illinois Department of Human Services

SUPR – Division of Substance Use Prevention and Recovery

SUPR Fact Sheet with Resources

Drug Overdose Prevention Program (DOPP)

What is DOPP Video

DOPP Website

Illinois Home Visiting & the Maternal and Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV)

Chicago Collaborative for Maternal Health

Fetal and Infant Mortality Review (FIMR)

    2021 Speakers

    Neil Shah, MD, MPP

    Harvard Medical School

    Karen Puopolo MD, PhD

    Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

    Marilyn Kacica, MD, MPH

    New York State Perinatal Quality Collaborative

    Barbara O’Brien MS, RN

    the Oklahoma Perinatal Quality Improvement Collaborative

    Munish Gupta MD, MMSc

    Perinatal Neonatal Quality Improvement Network of Massachusetts

    Wanda Irving, MPA

    Dr. Shalon’s Maternal Action Project

    Linda Suleiman, MD

    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

    Thank You to Our Sponsors

    Illinois Department of Public Health
    Illinois Department of Human Services
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health
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