2012 Annual Meeting & Quality Congress is moving to Chicago in October!
We are pleased to announce that the Vermont Oxford Network Annual Meeting & Quality Congress will take place:

As those of you who attended the 2011 meetings recognized, we have outgrown our traditional venue in Washington, DC. The Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers will easily accommodate our growing number of meeting attendees and will provide flexible meeting space for breakout sessions and the Learning Fair. This new venue is in a great location overlooking the Chicago River and within walking distance to the Magnificent Mile, Millennium Park, the Art Institute, Navy Pier as well as many restaurants and other entertainment. We hope you can join us in this new location in October!

The meeting agenda, faculty list and meeting & hotel registration with VON room block information will be emailed to all VON contacts and posted to this site in the coming weeks. Please contact Nancy Cloutier at nancy@vtoxford.org with any questions.

2011 Annual Meeting concludes in Washington, DC
We recently celebrated 20 years of meetings in Washington, DC. Health professionals from our member hospitals convened on December 3rd and 4th for lectures, workshops, a learning fair and a video festival. Audio Presentations of the talks are now available.
Click here for the Dec. 3rd presentations.
Click here for the Dec. 4th presentations.

First VON Day a Success!
VON days are our latest efforts to do cross-sectional studies that will allow us to better understand our practices. Our first VON Day on Pulse Oximetry was a great success with 150 centers contributing. Each center that participated was able to see their results from the quality audit immediately. Aggregate data will be presented at the VON Annual Meeting in December. Find out more . . .

Tikur Anbessa NICU Project
In partnership with our colleagues, Dr. Bogale Worku and Dr. Damte Shimelis in the Department of Pediatrics at Addis Ababa University, we have implemented a project in which teams from hospitals in the United States, including both physicians and nurses, work alongside our colleagues at the Tikur Anbessa (Black Lion) Hospital, the major teaching hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The teams provide bedside teaching and lectures to medical students, residents, fellows and nurses. The Vermont Oxford Network funds travel expenses, Addis Ababa University provides housing, and the specialists contribute their time. Learn more about the Tikur Anbessa NICU Project and how you can get involved. . .

Cochrane Neonatal Review Group
The Vermont Oxford Network and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development are pleased to have sponsored the first in a series of web conferences created by the Cochrane Neonatal Review Group. The first conference dealt with "Systematic overviews and meta-analysis in Neonatal Perinatal Medicine". The seminar introduced the members of the Cochrane Neonatal Review Group and discussed the basic methodology of systematic reviews and meta-analysis, using concrete examples from the Cochrane Library. Click here to view the recent Cochrane Webinar. Future conferences will explore current topics covered by Cochrane Reviews such as delivery room management and respiratory support.

NICQ 2007 eBook available
We are pleased to present the eBook entitled "NICQ 2007: Improvement in Action". This ebook is the culmination of NICQ 2007, a two-year improvement collaborative involving teams of neonatal professionals and families representing 46 hospitals in North America. This book is available to download in it's entirety or by chapter. Learn more . . .

Maintenance of Certification
The American Board of Pediatrics has recently approved several of the Vermont Oxford Network Collaboratives, both NICQs and iNICQs, as a source of credit for Maintenance of Certification, Part 4. Learn more and review detailed criteria for submission . . .

A Community of Practice
This article, The Vermont Oxford Network: A Community of Practice, authored by the Directors of the Vermont Oxford Network was published in the March 2010 issue of Clinics in Perinatology. The article concludes: “... that the neonatology community is an evolving worldwide community of practice in which health professionals and families around the world are engaged in collective learning about our shared domain of human endeavor, providing high-quality and safe care to newborn infants and their families. The Vermont Oxford Network looks forward to providing the tools and resources to help this community of practice continue to grow and flourish. ” The full text of this article is available here.