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Mission Through collaborative use of improvement science methods, reduce preterm births and improve outcomes of preterm newborns in Ohio as quickly as possible. OPQC Obstetric Charter          OPQC Neonatal Charter The Story The Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative (OPQC) was born in early 2007. . . read more (updated March 2009)

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The OPQC NEO project recognizes Aultman Hospital for their outstanding achievement of going over 300 days without an infection in their NICU!

Announcements!

Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine

February 3-6, 2010

On behalf of the OPQC OB improvement project results, Jay Iams gave a platform presentation with a companion publication coming in the March 2010 edition of JCOG titled- "A Statewide Initiative to Reduce Inappropriate Scheduled Births at 36.0-38.6 Weeks Gestation"  Jay Iams and OPQC won the "SMFM Award of Research Excellence".

Press Release Presentation

♦ We are pleased to announce the release of Preventing Infant Mortality in Ohio: Task Force Report November 2009. You can access the report through our web site: http://www.odh.ohio.gov/odhPrograms/cfhs/imtf/imtf.aspx Click on Final Report.

 ♦ IPHIS Hospital Report Directions to access birth certificate data

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 ♦  OPQC's impact on Ohio births

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