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The Perinatal Quality Collaborative Vermont (PQC-VT) is a formal partnership of long-standing Vermont Child Health Improvement Program projects that have joined forces to become Vermont’s resource for perinatal care.
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Optimizing Perinatal and Infant Care in Vermont

The mission of the Perinatal Quality Collaborative Vermont is to optimize health access, treatment, and outcomes in pregnancy and infancy through collaboration and continuous quality improvement.

PQC-VT Handout (PDF)

Watch the PQC-VT video today! Learn what the Perinatal Quality Collaborative Vermont is and how the collaborative works to improve outcomes for parents and infants.

Current Projects

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Announcements

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  • The PQC-VT is excited to share the Community Response Teams Best Practice Recommendations & Implementation Guide. This was a collaborative effort between the PQC-VT, KidSafe Collaborative, and the Vermont Department of Health. This guide was created to ensure that every Vermont community has the tools to build and sustain a strong Community Response Team (CRT). The vision is that it will support regions without an active CRT, assist active teams seeking to strengthen their existing work, and serve as a resource for statewide evaluation and system-building.
  • The PQC-VT is pleased to release a data brief, Understanding the Role of Local Maternity Care in Vermont. Our collaborative produced this brief in response to growing concern about access to obstetric services in Vermont's communities. We welcome feedback, question and comments. Email: vchip.pqcvt@med.uvm.edu

Reports

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  • The Vermont Perinatal Public Health Report (PDF) provides an overview of Vermont perinatal data trends and perinatal community support programs. 
  • The annual Evaluation and Report of Perinatal Statistics for Vermont Community Hospitals report is an analysis of perinatal data for ten Vermont community hospitals with obstetric services. The report includes data reported by hospital staff and data reported to the Vermont Department of Health including birth certificate data, immunization registry data and newborn screening registry data. The report is shared annually with community hospitals during the spring through annual stats conferences to review perinatal outcomes data in the context of key maternal and newborn quality indicators. 

Perinatal Health Resources

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Browse our perinatal health resources!

Project Team

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Faculty

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  • Whittney Barkhuff, MD, Assistant Professor of Neonatology
  • Sarah Guth, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry
  • Breena Holmes, MD, FAAP, Professor of Pediatrics
  • Delia Horn, MD, Assistant Professor of Neonatology
  • Samuel Loren, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
  • Carole McBride, PhD, Assistant Professor and Faculty Scientist, Research of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Kelley McLean, MD, Associate Professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine
  • Charles Mercier, MD, Professor of Pediatrics
  • Marjorie Meyer, MD, Professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Vice Chair for Obstetrics
  • Deirdre O'Reilly, MD, Associate Professor of Neonatology
  • Adrienne Pahl, MD, Assistant Professor of Neonatology
  • Marianne (Molly) Rideout, MD, Professor of Pediatrics
  • Michelle Shepard, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
  • Aaron Wallman-Stokes, MD, Assistant Professor of Neonatology

Vermont Department of Health

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  • Ilisa Stalberg, MSS, MLSP, Family and Child Health Director
  • Katy Leffel, RN, BSN, IBCLC, Perinatal Nurse Coordinator
  • Laura Pentenrieder, MPH, Program Manager

Staff

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  • Julie Parent, MPH, MSW, Project Director, Department of Pediatrics
  • Angela Zinno, MA, Project Coordinator, Department of Pediatrics
  • Courtenay Devlin, MS, Data Manager, Department of Pediatrics
  • Kim Dacek, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, Perinatal Community Outreach Nurse Practitioner, Department of Pediatrics
  • Sara Forward, LICSW, Outreach Specialist, Department of Pediatrics
  • Samantha Bellinger, MA, Program Specialist, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
  • Kayla Panko, BSN, RNC-MNN, AIM Nurse Educator, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences

If you would like to be added to the PQC-VT listserv, please contact us by sending an email to vchip.pqcvt@med.uvm.edu.