Outreach

Outreach Services

• Annual on-site quality of care visits to each affiliate which include as time permits the review of:

1. Available perinatal data
2. The affiliate’s internal quality assurance program, policies, & procedures
3. Care provided by medical, nursing, & other health care practitioners
4. The appropriateness & timeliness of maternal & newborn referrals and transfers, as well as the outcomes of patients retained at the affiliate hospital who met the criteria for transfer to a higher level of care
5. Adverse perinatal events & outcomes such as fatalities, morbidity, nosocomial infections, and high-risk procedures
6. Pathology related to all deaths & significant surgical specimens
7. The effectiveness of any plans for correcting quality of care problems

• Review & identification of problems: review of data, adverse outcomes, transports and non-transports, and the affiliates internal QA/QI activities
• Solutions/recommendations and their effectiveness
• Outreach and education including identification of needs
• Attending level perinatal consultations
• Development, updating, and implementing affiliation agreements
• Patient transport

Outreach Meeting Schedule 2023

• Outreach Schedule:

  • FF Thompson   Monday September 18, 2023 7:00am - 9:00am

  • Unity    Wednesday October 4, 2023    7:30am - 8:30am

  • Noyes    Tuesday October 17, 2023   0800a – 1000a

  • Highland    Thursday November 2, 2023    0730a – 0830a

  • RGH    Thursday November 30, 2023     0730a – 0830a

  • Newark-Wayne    TBD

  • Arnot & Corning     TBD