St. Dominic Hospital NICU

St. Dominic Hospital is a member of Vermont Oxford Network (VON), a worldwide community of health care professionals and families participating in data-driven quality improvement, education, and research to improve the quality, safety, and value of care for infants and families. VON, a nonprofit collaboration, facilitates the world’s largest databases of practices and outcomes for neonatal care. Through participation in a VON database, St. Dominic’s receives reports documenting patient characteristics, treatment practices, morbidity, mortality, and length of stay. The reports help the NICU team track performance over time to benchmark against previous years, subgroups of similar centers, and the network as a whole, and are used to identify quality improvement initiatives with the goal of providing ever-improving care for infants and families.