Awards

The PA PQC’s $5,000 Quality Improvement Awards will be awarded quarterly in 2024 to PA PQC healthcare teams who complete all the milestones listed below for an active 2024-25 initiative until the available funding levels are reached for each quarter (the awards are also contingent on available funding). *Initiatives in sustainment are not eligible for quarterly awards. 

If the number of PA PQC healthcare teams that achieved the milestones for a particular quarter exceeds the number of available awards for that quarter, the Quality Improvement Awards will be awarded through a random selection among all eligible teams who successfully meet the criteria by the quarterly due date. 

*Furthermore, to ensure fairness and equity, teams are required to submit their milestones at the hospital level rather than as a network/system in order to qualify for individual entries for each hospital rather than one entry for the entire system. 

The purpose of the awards is to recognize and support efforts to further build the PA PQC healthcare team’s infrastructure for collecting and submitting data and for implementing a PA PQC quality improvement project for a PA PQC 2024 initiative.

Birth hospitals are eligible  for these Quality Improvement Awards if they:

• join a PA PQC 2024 initiative by completing the step in the “How to Get Involved” section, AND
• stay engaged in the PA PQC by meeting the minimum set of criteria listed in the "Participation Requirements" section under "Hospitals"  during the Implementation Period.

For the 2024-25 implemenation year, PA PQC Healthcare Teams previously engaged in the SUD or SEN initiatives are welcome to continue collecting and reporting measures related to SUD/SEN for their own internal QI; however, the PA PQC OUD/NAS initiatives, including all PA PQC-provided learning opportunities, quarterly awards, and annual designations, will be opioid-use focused for the 2024-25 implementation year. Note: Interventions that are related to opioids IN ADDITION to other substance will still count as OUD interventions. The only interventions that do not "count" are those that completely exclude opioids (i.e., interventions focused on FASD)

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