CME Webinar: Essential Best Practices for Newborn Care: Ensuring Healthy Beginnings Through Comprehensive Care

Feb. 2025Education/Webinars

Please join us for a live, CME-accredited webinar on Wednesday, May 7, from noon to 1 p.m. that will provide an overview of newborn care.

During this presentation, our experts will discuss:

  • The key principles of newborn care.
  • Opportunities to standardize newborn discharge practices.
  • Barriers to Safe Sleep anticipatory guidance.
  • Understand the newborn HEDIS® measures: Follow-Up Visit Post Discharge

Speakers:

  • Gysella Muniz Pujalt MD, MBA FAAP, UPMC Regional Director of Quality Newborn Care, Medical Director, MWH Newborn Nursery Services
  • Debra Zeh, RN, BSN, Senior Director Quality Improvement, Provider Performance, UPMC Health Plan

Register Now

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the health care team. The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.0 contact hour. Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Provider is responsible for verifying CME eligibility.

HEDIS® The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) is a registered trademark of NCQA. CAHPS® is a registered trademark of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).


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