Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative
PAIRED Initiative
The PAIRED Initiative has concluded. Learn more about our new NICU Initiative, Homeward Bound, recruiting until September 25, 2023!
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.
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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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. This resource is updated regularly throughout the project.
Online Tool Box for PAIRED Hospitals
National Organizations
- National Perinatal Association is the leading multidisciplinary organization 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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Creating, Sustaining, and Growing Patient and Family Advisory Councils in the NICU - April 4, 2023
PAIRED Mid-Point Meeting - November 3, 2022
PAIRED Data Webinar - February 16, 2022
Expanded PAIRED Kickoff - February 10, 2022
- Welcome and Introductions
- Families as Partners (Slides)
- Families as Partners (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
- 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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- 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 Hospital
- Fort Walton Beach Medical Center
- Golisano Children's Hospital of South West Florida
- Golisano Children's Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY
- Halifax Health
- HCA Florida Brandon Hospital
- HCA Florida University Hospital
- Holmes 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