October 9, 2024

Western NC is in need of clinical support to provide labor and delivery services for pregnant individuals. If you are available and interested in being deployed to this area of the state to support pregnant and postpartum individuals, please take a moment to complete this survey. Any help would be greatly appreciated.   

SMAT-MRC SMSS Staffing Availability - Tropical Weather Helene - 13 - Emergency Operations Plans (readyop.com)

Thank you in advance for the ongoing leadership and support that you provide North Carolinians.

Belinda Pettiford, MPH

Section Chief

Women, Infant, and Community Wellness Section

Division of Public Health  

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

PQCNC is pleased to welcome Caroline Hays (MPH, RN, BSN) to the PQCNC Core Team as our new Clinical Initiative Manager for Maternal Initiatives

Caroline is a former labor and delivery nurse with 10 years of experience in perinatal care and public health. Caroline has a Master of Public Health in Maternal, Child, and Family Health from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC Chapel Hill, where she worked on a variety of perinatal health projects with UNC Family Medicine and the UNC Center of Excellence in Maternal & Child Health. She then worked as a research specialist with Abacus Evaluation at the UNC Center for Health Equity Research, performing program evaluation for local, state, and national health initiatives. As a nurse, Caroline worked as a labor and delivery nurse as well as in pediatrics, prenatal care, primary care, school nursing, emergency response, and community health in Illinois and Senegal.

Caroline is currently hard at work preparing for the upcoming Maternal Cardiac Initiative...

Make Sure You're Up to Date!

Monthly Leadership Reports for AUGUST were due by SEPTEMBER 15 - if you have not yet submitted yours please make it a priority to submit it by the end of this week 

Data - Whether or not you have any sepsis patients, every month you need to enter both total number of admissions and total number of admissions diagnosed with obstetric sepsis in Delphi - please use this week to bring your data up to date!

Register for the PQCNC 2024 Annual Meeting / New Initiatives 2026

Mark your calendars for October 28th at the McKimmon Center.

Register here

A variety of speakers in the morning and an afternoon dedicated to presentations of proposed initiatives to be undertaken in January 2026! There is still time to propose projects (click here to do so) and those proposing initiatives will present and answer your questions.

Then we will vote!!!

Sepsis Primary Contact Update

As we announced during the May Learning Session, Clinical Initiative Manager Elizabeth Balskus is leaving the PQCNC team. Starting July 1st, Keith Cochran will be the primary point of contact for the Sepsis in Obstetric Care Initiative. Moving forward, please send Monthly Leadership Reports to qiadvisor@pqcnc.org