Years Active: 2019-2020
Opioid Exposed
Newborn
PROJECT AIM:
Optimize the care and improve outcomes of opioid exposed newborns by improving recognition, pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment, and the referral to follow-up services by December of 2019.
Key Driver
Project Resources
Active Participating
Hospital Teams
- Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women
- Children’s Hospital at Erlanger
- Hardin Medical Center
- Henry County Medical Center
- Jackson-Madison County General Hospital
- Maury Regional Medical Center
- Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
- Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
- Niswonger Children’s Hospital
- Regional One Health
- Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital
- Sumner Regional Medical Center
- Tennova Healthcare – Harton
- TriStar Centennial Women’s and Children’s
- TriStar Hendersonville Medical Center
- TriStar Horizon Medical Center
- University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville
- West TN Healthcare Dyersburg Hospital
State Project Leaders
Mike Devoe, MD a neonatologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Vanderbilt Medical School, along with Anna Morad, MD an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, and Director, Newborn Nursery at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, and the TIPQC Infant Medical Director led this project.
TIPQC is actively recruiting devoted health care professionals, community leaders and patient and family partners to further our mission of improving health outcomes for mothers and babies in Tennessee.