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ILPQC 12th Annual Conference

The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center | Wednesday, October 30th, 2024 | 8:00am – 4:30pm CST
Register Today! Registration Closes 10/11/2024

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ILPQC 12th 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

  • 8:15 – 9:00 am

    ILPQC Year in Review

    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

    Keynote Speaker

  • 9:45 – 10:00 am

    Break

  • 10:00 – 10:45 am

    Keynote Speaker

  • 10:45 – 11:45 am

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

  • 11:45 am – 12:00 pm

    ILPQC Award Ceremony

  • 12:00 – 1:15 pm

    Networking Lunch and Poster Session

  • 1:15 – 2:15 pm

    Patient Panel

  • 2:15 – 2:30 pm

    Break

  • 2:30 – 4:00 pm

    Breakout Sessions: Getting Ready for 2025

  • 4:00 – 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), and Equity and Safe Sleep for Infants (ESSI).

We will also hear from other state perinatal quality collaboratives’ success stories in patient and community engagement, Social Determinants of Health workflow, 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 patient/parent partners and QI team leads.

We will continue the tradition of teams sharing hospital QI initiatives with our interactive Poster Session (see below for abstract submission information).

How to Prepare for the 12th Annual Conference!

Want to get ILPQC-event ready? Use the ILPQC 12th Annual Conference Checklist below.

1. Submit your team’s QI abstract (obtain the poster template here) by 9/20/2024.
2. Register for the event and get the ILPQC Early Bird Rate until 9/27/2024.
3. Submit all QI initiative Data by 9/27/2024 to be considered for QI recognition awards.
4. Complete the Annual OB & Neonatal Teams Survey by 9/27/2024.                                               5. Reserve your hotel room by 10/8/2024 for the night before.
6. Bring your perinatal items to the ILPQC Share the Love Donation drive onsite.
7. Bring your printed QI poster to share at the QI Poster Session at the Westin Lombard hotel.

September 20th – Abstracts Due
• To be considered for an award, submit Abstracts by Friday, September 20th. Posters are encouraged to showcase a completed or in-progress QI work in any area. Hospitals that have not previously submitted an abstract, including Level I and Level II hospitals, are especially encouraged to participate! 
• Submit your abstract and obtain the poster template here.

September 27th – All QI Initiative Data Due
• To be considered for a QI recognition award, please submit all data by Friday, September 27th into RedCap. Click on the link to access REDCap.

September 27th - Annual OB & Neonatal Teams Survey Due
• We want to hear from you! This Annual Survey asks what teams need and helps ILPQC learn how we can best support teams throughout the QI journey. It is important that EVERY team completes this survey, so we really appreciate ONE person from your hospital investing the time! Click on the link to complete the AC Survey.

SSM Health: Joint Accreditation & CE Credit Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the Illinois Perinatal Quality Collaborative (ILPQC) and SSM Health. SSM Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. As a Jointly Accredited Organization, SSM Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit.

Accredited continuing education credits will be awarded to physician, nurse, and social work attendees. Learners should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity

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