NICU Educational Calls and Webinars
NCABSI Coaching Call Resources
LINK TO NCABSI Content Webinar – Feb. 8, 2012
NICU Project Overview
CLABSI, also known as CABSI (catheter-associated bloodstream infection), is a significant contributor to morbidity and mortality for infants receiving NICU care. While many NICUs no longer view these infections as inevitable, NICUs confront a range of unique obstacles in the work to eliminate CABSI. For example, expertise in health care quality varies widely among NICU settings, and NICUs experience fatigue brought about by an ever-expanding menu of quality improvement activities required of hospitals.
Funded under the same AHRQ contract as the adult project, there is a related but different “CABSI” collaborative model focused in NICUs that is taking place in 8 states: Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Wisconsin. Recognizing that CABSI prevention for infants differs from adults, the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) and the Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North Carolina (PQCNC) launched this collaborative in August 2011 with the 8 state leads being neonatologists and clinicians. These state clinical leads are working with their state hospital associations and recruiting NICUs to participate, submit CABSI data to PQCNC for real-time feedback, and engaging unit teams to assess and continually address safety culture through the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP).
The project has two primary aims:
- Create and support eight statewide CABSI collaboratives committed to reducing CABSI by 75%.
- Each state will develop a leadership team that provides a foundation for a stakeholder collaborative organization that seeks to include providers (neonatologists, nurses, nurse practitioners, ICPs), state leaders (DPH), payers (Medicaid and other significant payers) and family organizations.
Based on the belief and emerging evidence that the collective knowledge and support of teams working together as partners is an effective method for quality improvement, we are excited to support this new model of state perinatal collaboratives to reduce CABSI rates and execute future improvement initiatives.
For more information on the NICU collaborative, contact Deb Bohr, at (646) 678-4280 or dbohr@aha.org, or visit www.ncabsi.org.