High-Risk Deliveries

Babies with low birth weight (<1500 grams) are more likely to survive if they are delivered and treated at a hospital with an experienced neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), defined by caring for 50 or more very-low birth weight babies a year, or at a hospital that has demonstrated “better than expected” performance on the Vermont Oxford Network’s (VON) measure of death or morbidity. The measure assesses a hospital's annual volume of very low birth weight babies or a hospital's performance on the VON' death or morbidity measure.

Reporting Period (volume)

• Surveys submitted prior to September 1: 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023
• Surveys (re)submitted on or after September 1: 07/01/2023 - 06/30/2024

Reporting Period (outcomes)

• Surveys submitted prior to September 1: 2022
• Surveys (re)submitted on or after September 1: 2023

Patients Included in the Measure

• Inpatients (Patients who are admitted to the hospital for at least one overnight stay)
• Adults and Newborns