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Perinatal Outreach Program - Quality Oversight Initiatives

For more information contact:

Ruth Simmons
NENY Quality Specialist
(518) 262-8234
simmonri@mail.amc.edu

The Regional Perinatal Center is responsible to provide quality oversight to each affiliate hospital in the NENY region.

We work collaboratively with each hospital to identify opportunities to support and improve their
internal quality processes including:

  • Common perinatal database with regional subcommittee to oversee data quality
  • Regional and cohort data reports
  • Customized data analysis and reports
  • Perinatal/Neonatal benchmarking of key indicators
  • Evaluation of perinatal standards of care and protocols
  • Annual customer satisfaction survey
  • Educational learning needs assessment
  • Continuing education programs to regional hospitals, physicians and nurses
  • Site visits to each regional hospital
  • Focused data site visits to regional hospitals