Collaborative Initiatives for Quality Improvement (CIQI) Program
Mission
Provide leadership to CHNC for prioritizing and completing CIQI projects important for children’s hospital NICUs.
Vision
All neonates in children’s hospital NICUs receive safe, high-quality care
Achieving the Vision
The CHNC Quality Improvement (CIQI)Program aims to establish the best possible neonatal care and outcomes using quality improvement science in Children’s Hospitals NICUs. The CHNC Global Aim is to improve the health of neonates. CHNC CIQIs Smart Aim is to enable the completion of meaningful, collaborative QI projects in the CHNC-CIQI by achieving the targets set on measures.
Progress towards these aims are evaluated through:
Total sites participating in the collaborative
And the progress of sites towards their improvement aims, measured by collaborative progress reports.
The Quality Improvement Program strives to achieve this objective through:
A collaborative Structure
Improvement Competency at the Macro, Meso, and Micro Level
Effective Communication Model
Data system driven by the CHND with minimal additional data collection
Resource access for collaborative QI efforts
Identifying value added projects
Hardwiring sustained improvement
Dedicated Quality Improvement Leadership facilitates and supports children’s hospitals with these objectives and strategies by:
Selection and facilitation of CIQI projects.
Sponsoring a Collaborative Initiative Quality Improvement Fellowship
Providing Quality Improvement resources, tools, and dashboards.
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