Only July 31, 2022, hospitals actively participating in the Newborn Admission Temperature Project will submit another round of data, marking one full year of data collection. This data will allow TCHMB to provide participating hospitals with hypothermia prevalence at their own hospitals, and more. Having a full year of data means that the estimates are more reliable, and can provide meaningful insights into patterns at the state and regional levels.
The NAT project is the largest in TCHMB history with 160 hospitals enrolled. During the most recent round of data reporting, over 75% of enrolled hospitals submitted data to TCHMB. See what some hospitals are saying, after nearly one year of participating in the NAT project:
Memorial Hermann Health System decided to participate in the project because we consider the work that TCHMB is doing as important, and we are focusing on reducing disparity in equity, diversity, and inclusion work.
With 25,000 deliveries a year, we were faced with a daunting project to obtain race and ethnicity on each newborn and collect temperatures according to the different parameters for well baby and NICU. We leveraged our ability to create documentation reports and perform data analysis to avoid the manual tracking and chart review, cutting down manual validation by an estimated 95%.
- Memorial Hermann Health System
The project was a definite challenge for our institution because of the large number of patients we care for. Obtaining data was very labor intensive and required working with a data architect to get a custom report built. Building the report, obtaining data outside of our NICUs and validating data were all challenges we encountered which required a lot of time, but we eventually overcame those challenges.
- Texas Children’s Hospital
In 2019-2020, Doctors Hospital of Laredo (DHL) solely tackled the newborn admission temperature QI project knowing that thermoregulation is the holy grail of neonatology. Huge strides were made towards adequate thermoregulation of the newborn, bringing DHL very close in achieving the goal.
In late 2020, when TCHMB announced the QI initiative of Newborn Admission Temperature (NAT) to increase newborn health care quality and patient safety; DHL did not hesitate in enrolling. We are hopeful in reaching the goal and provide quality care to every single baby born at DHL by participating in the state-wide NAT project.
Thank you for allowing us to participate.
- Doctors Hospital of Laredo
If your hospital has questions about the project or needs technical assistance in reporting to the project, visit NAT Office Hours, every Wednesday from 12-2 p.m. CST.
