ILPQC 11th Annual Conference

The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center | Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 | 8:00am – 4:30pm CST

ILPQC Annual Conference 2023 Slide Decks

ILPQC 11th Annual Conference Agenda
(talk titles and order subject to change)

7:00 – 8:00 am

Check-in, QI poster set up, and Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:15 am

Welcome

Charity S. Bean, CMA, CFSD, CLC, CBA, CHW, SRN

Doula Bean Maternal Care, LLC
8:15 – 9:00 am

ILPQC Year in Review: Making a Difference with Patients and Community

Ann Borders, MD, MSc, MPH

Executive Director and Obstetric Lead, ILPQC

Leslie Caldarelli, MD

Neonatal Clinical Lead, ILPQC

Justin Josephsen, MD

Neonatal Clinical Lead, ILPQC
9:00 – 9:45 am

Incorporating Health Equity into Quality Improvement Initiatives in Perinatal Healthcare

Christina Davidson, MD

Associate Professor | Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine

Vice Chair of Quality, Patient Safety & Health Equity | Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology | Baylor College of Medicine

System Chief Health Equity Officer

Chief Quality Officer, Obstetrics & Gynecology

Texas Children’s Hospital
9:45 – 10:00 am

Break
10:00 – 10:45 am

Equity-focused Approaches to Improving Safe Infant Sleep during Birth Hospitalization

Sunah Susan Hwang, MD, MPH, PhD

The Lula O. Lubchenco Chair in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Director, Perinatal Health Services Research

Section of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics

University of Colorado School of Medicine

10:45 – 11:45 am

State Quality Collaborative Leaders Panel: National Perspectives on Improving Perinatal Care

Kylie Hibshman, LCSW, PMH-C (she/her/hers)

Director of Integrated Behavioral Health and Continuum of Care, Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative (CPCQC)

Sydnie Carraher DNP, APRN-NP, NNP-BC

Program Administrator, Nebraska Perinatal Quality Improvement Collaborative (NPQIC)

Brenda Barker, M Ed, MBA

Executive Director, Tennessee Initiative for Perinatal Quality Care (TIPQC)
11:45 am – 12:00 pm

ILPQC Award Ceremony
12:00 – 1:15 pm

Networking Lunch and Poster Session
1:15 – 1:45 pm

The Power of the Community in Promoting a Safe Sleep Environment

Nancy Maruyama RN, BSN, NCBF

Executive Director, Sudden Infant Death Services (SIDS) of Illinois, Inc.

Kakuna Smith

ILPQC Neonatal Community Advisory Board member
1:45 – 2:30 pm

Momma’s Voices: Taking Steps to Engage Patient Partners in QI

Bekah Bischoff

Program Manager, Momma’s Voices

Tamela Milan-Alexander, MPPA

Community Engagement Director, EverThrive Illinois
2:30 – 2:45 pm

Break
2:45 – 4:15 pm
Breakout Sessions: Getting Ready for 2024
- OB Teams Breakout Session
- Neonatal Teams Breakout Session
- Patient, Family, Community Engagement Breakout Session
4:15 – 4:30 pm

Wrap-up & Evaluation

Calling all perinatal health advocates interested in improving perinatal health outcomes!

Calling all obstetricians, neonatologists, pediatricians, nurse midwives, and other perinatal healthcare practitioners, nurses, lactation counselors, perinatal health educators, social workers, quality leaders, administrators, payers, public health professionals, and all advocates interested in perinatal health!

Join us to share strategies, lessons learned from perinatal quality improvements (QI) efforts across Illinois as well as across the country, and hear from national and state leaders providing resources and expertise as we strengthen state-based perinatal quality efforts to improve perinatal outcomes for our statewide QI initiatives: Birth Equity (BE), Promoting Vaginal Birth (PVB), as well as the launch of our new neonatal initiative Equity and Safe Sleep for Infants (ESSI)!

We will also hear from other state perinatal quality collaboratives’ success stories in newborn equity, safe sleep, patient engagement, mental health, and other QI initiatives with insights from national leaders and personal stories.

Breakout sessions will be held for OB teams, Neonatal teams, as well as for community, family, and patient advisors. We will continue the tradition of teams sharing hospital QI initiatives with our interactive Poster Session (see below for abstract submission information).

Patient Partners:

We invite ALL patient partners to attend the ILPQC 11th Annual Conference for FREE! Please email info@ilpqc.org for a free registration code.

How to Prepare for the 11th Annual Conference!

Register for the 10th Annual Conference (Registration Opens Tuesday, September 5th)
Reserve your hotel room block at the Westin Yorktown Lombard! Book by 10/12/2023 to receive the reduced rate of $149/night
Review and submit QI initiative data by Friday, September 22nd to be in consideration for Quality Improvement Recognition Awards
Work with you QI team to complete an Annual Conference Teams Survey, to be submitted by Friday, September 22nd. This is a great opportunity to share your teams thoughts & insights reflecting on 2022 and planning for 2023.
- Survey link here
- PDF Version of survey
All hospital teams are encourage to submit an abstract on complete or in-progress quality improvement work in any area. Abstracts submitted by September 22nd will be reviewed for awards (September 29th is the deadline for late breaking abstracts, which are not eligible for awards). We especially encourage hospitals that have not previously submitted an abstract, including Level I and Level II hospitals, to submit an abstract this year! A poster template will be provided and support is available from ILPQC. QI stories of successes, opportunities, and plans for 2024 for any of the current ILPQC initiatives, or other OB or Neonatal QI efforts are welcome.
Top abstract(s) in each submission category (OB, Neonatal, Patent Family Engagement, Level 1/Level II) will receive an Award of Excellence. One abstract in the OB and Neonatal submission category will receive special recognition for Best Use of Data & Best Project Implementation.
1. Please submit your team’s abstract by clicking here.
Joint Accreditation & CE Credit Statement

pending approval

Annual Conference 2023 Speakers

Christina Davidson, MD

Associate Professor | Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine Vice Chair of Quality, Patient Safety & Health Equity | Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology | Baylor College of Medicine System Chief Health Equity Officer Chief Quality Officer, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Texas Children’s Hospital

Sunah Susan Hwang, MD, MPH, PhD

The Lula O. Lubchenco Chair in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Associate Professor of Pediatrics Director, Perinatal Health Services Research Section of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics University of Colorado School of Medicine