Your VON Newsletter
May 2026 |
VON Quality Congress 2026 - Registration Open! |
Plenary Sessions:
- Tele-resuscitation
- Neuroprotective Lung Strategies
- Developmental follow-up for infants with BPD
- Parent Perspectives
- Innovative Surfactant Therapies
- Caring for the Caregiver
- Words Matter – Language with Families
- AAP Terminology Project
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Breakout Sessions:
- VON Data
- Focus on Dads
- Follow Through Toolkit
- Publishing Your QI Work
- Trends In Interventions and Outcomes At The Earliest Gestations
- Burnout and Retention
- The Language That We Use When We Talk to Families
- VON Global Health Update
- Developing a Point of Care Ultrasound Program in Your Neonatal ICU
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Chicago, IL | November 5-8, 2026!
Thursday: NICQ Quality Improvement Topic Homeroom Meetings
Friday: All Care is Brain Care Meetings and Team Presentations - afternoon sessions open to all
Saturday: Plenary, Posters, and Breakout sessions
Sunday: Workshops
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Teams participating in All Care is Brain Care receive complimentary registrations for 4 clinical team members and 2 senior leaders. All parent partners attend for no cost! |
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Crowdsourcing Improvement
Participate in the VON Community Forum to learn and improve together! |
Do you have good diaper care guidelines and protocols in your unit?
What about successful guidelines for BPD or noninvasive ventilation?
Share your thoughts and experiences about these topics and others with your improvement community on the VON Community Forum.
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Evidence to Practice: Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents
VON Grand Rounds - Recording Available |
Our latest VON Grand Rounds webinar and discussion focused on the use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (including erythropoietin and darbepoetin) for the prevention of anemia and improving neurodevelopmental outcome in preterm newborns. The active discussion will continue in the next "On with VON" episode of The Incubator Podcast. Watch the webinar recording to get all caught up! |
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Check the Incubator Podcast for "On with VON" episodes continuing the conversation!
Evidence to Practice: Surfactant Administration – September 16, 2026
Evidence to Practice: Kangaroo Mother Care – December 16, 2026
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Reporting and Benchmarking for Health Systems and Groups |
- Compare performance of each hospital in the group to one another in a special annual report.
- Use interactive reporting to compare individual center data to consolidated data about all centers in the group and to other benchmarks provided by VON (all VON, regional, NICU type, etc.).
- Control whether the individual hospital data in your group is identifiable or is blinded.
- Additional custom group reporting is available.
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Congratulations to the Eight 2025 Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement Recipients |
The annual VON Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement recognizes VON member teams who demonstrate dedication to VON core values of quality improvement. The recipients for 2025 are:
- Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital
- Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital
- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
- Manning Family Children’s Hospital
- Norton Children’s Hospital
- Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center
- Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital
- St. Joseph Medical Center
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