The PA PQC’s $5,000 Quality Improvement Awards will be awarded quarterly in 2025 to PA PQC healthcare teams who complete all the milestones listed below for an active 2025-26 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 2025 initiative.
Birth hospitals are eligible for these Quality Improvement Awards if they:
• join a PA PQC 2025 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.
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