Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative
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PAIRED Initiative
Family-Centered Care in the NICU
Family-centered care (FCC) is a shared approach to the planning, delivery, and evaluation of health care that is grounded in mutually beneficial partnership among health care professionals, patients, and families. FCC assures that health care is responsive to priorities, preferences, and values of patients and their families. FCC recognizes that families are essential partners not only to improve the quality and safety of health care for the patient, but also to improve outcomes for the family.
About the PAIRED Initiative
We have designed PAIRED to help NICUs develop and implement unit-specific strategies that will improve how a family engages with the NICU staff to assist in the care of their infant in a way that provides value to the family and to the NICU team. As its centerpiece project, this initiative will facilitate adoption or expansion of safe skin-to-skin care, which has a growing evidence base for achieving better infant and family outcomes.
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Initiative Resources and Tools
The PAIRED Online Tool Box contains project tool kit documents, example policies and educational materials, and more for hospitals who are implementing the PAIRED Initiative.
Visit the Online Tool Box for PAIRED Hospitals
This resource is updated regularly throughout the project.
National Organizations
- National Perinatal Association. The leading multidisciplinary organization that is working to provide education, advocacy and integration in providing care for infants and families
- NICU Parent Network. Provides education to parents and staff.
- The Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care provides resources for patient- and family-centered change in health care institutions.
- Hand to Hold. Helps families before, during, and after a NICU stay and infant loss by providing powerful resources for the whole family.
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Past Presentations and Webinars
PAIRED Mid-Initiative Meeting - November 3, 2022
- Meeting Slides
- Beth Simonton's presentation on Parent Power
PAIRED Data Webinar - February 16, 2022
Expanded PAIRED Kickoff - February 10, 2022
- Welcome and Introductions
- Families as Partners (slides) - Video Recording
- Skin-to-Skin Care and Family-Centered Care Background and Guidelines
- Overview of PAIRED Plus Modules
- Getting Started: Implementation, Toolkit, and Resources
- Coaching Calls
- Key Driver Diagram and Measurement Grid
- Quality Improvement Technique: PDSA Cycles
- Next Steps
Webinar: Where Do We Go from Here? Adopting a Trauma Informed Paradigm in the NICU and Beyond - December 1, 2021
Webinar: Starting Point for Powerful Partnerships in the NICU Using Skin to Skin Care - June 10, 2021
PAIRED Pilot Kickoff - March 19, 2021
*See Expanded PAIRED Kickoff resources above for updated Initiative guidance
- Skin-to-Skin Care and Family-Centered Care Background and Guidelines
- PAIRED Plus Overview
- PAIRED Implementation Guidance
- Introduction to PAIRED Key Drivers and Measures
- Quality Improvement Technique: PDSA Cycles for PAIRED
Data Introduction Webinar - March 26, 2021
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Participating Hospitals
AdventHealth Tampa
Baptist Hospital of Miami
Baptist Medical Center South
Bayfront Health Port Charlotte
Boca Raton Regional Hospital
Broward Health Medical Center
Cleveland Clinic Tradition HospitalFort Walton Beach Medical Center
Golisano Children's Hospital of South West Florida
Golisano Children's Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY
Halifax HealthHCA Florida Brandon Hospital
HCA Florida University HospitalHolmes Regional Medical Center
Holtz Children’s Hospital at Jackson Memorial Hospital
Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
Jupiter Medical Center
Lakeland Regional Health
Lawnwood Regional Medical Center
Memorial Hospital Miramar
Mount Sinai Medical Center
NCH Healthcare System
Northwest Medical Center
Salah Foundation Children's Hospital
St. Joseph Hospital South
South Miami Hospital
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare
UF Health Jacksonville
Wellington Regional Center
Winter Haven Women's Hospital
Wolfson Children's Hospital