ILPQC has officially launched the Illinois Birthing Hospital Quality Designation Program with funding from BCBSIL Special Beginnings® Program! This program will provide hospital teams with mini-grant funding up to $3,750 per year (for 2025 and 2026) and quality improvement support to help hospitals implement key strategies toward achieving designation criteria.  Hospitals achieving designation criteria will […]

Building upon the foundational work of the ILPQC Birth Equity initiative, Equity and Safe Sleep for Infants (ESSI) will promote neonatal equity, address racial and social inequities, and seek to reduce neonatal health disparities in sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) related to the sleep environment.