R Baby 2019 Grants

R BABY GRANTS HAVE REACHED MORE THAN 1000 HOSPITALS AND TRAINED OVER 6000 PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL SUPPORT STAFF

 

R Baby Sim-Mobile ImPACTS Project led by Yale School of Medicine continues to grow with R Baby’s support and in 2018 added a ‘train the trainers’ component to reach even more care givers to give them the tools to be more prepared for pediatric emergencies. ImPACTS expanded their training to 14 additional children’s hospitals and enrolled 138 community ERs.  

 

INSPIRE Networkled by New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, supported by R Baby since its inception, has grown to over 688 members at 268 sites in 40 countries.  INSPIRE serves as a global community that catalyzes discoveries and promotes collaboration in pediatric simulation-based research, scholarship, and innovation. In addition to R Baby’s initial/seed and continued support, INSPIRE’s research and projects have garnered almost $12M in additional funding.  

 

Community Emergency Department Simulation in Maryland led by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine through the support of R Baby’s Maryland Chapter, has provided quarterly simulation sessions to two community hospitals in the Baltimore area.  These sites are not staffed by pediatric emergency medicine physicians nor do they use pediatric ER trained nurses when caring for its sickest infants. R Baby’s training is an important and critical tool to help them prepare for pediatric emergencies.

 

Improving the Prediction of Stillbirthby Dr. Robert Silver at The University of Utah School of Medicine is working to develop prediction tools to identify stillbirth risks later in pregnancy when early delivery is an option.  Read more about this grant here (link to grant) and The Riley Fund for Stillbirth Research here.

 

findERnow App at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Dr. Carlos Camargo

and the EMNet team has surveyed all 5,000+ ERs in the country,  to update the findERnow app to help parents and caregivers find the closest ER more likely to be prepared for their child. To read more about findERnow visit here (link to app page) and download findERnow today. 

 

Simulation Education Expansion and Pediatric Sepsis Collaborative at Goryeb Children’s Hospital at Morristown Medical Center is collaborating with our current simulation programs to expand their simulation education program. This program now provides a permanent dedicated simulation training lab at Goryeb to train more caregivers. 

 

The Pediatric Sepsis Collaborativethree-year commitment provides extensive resources to participants including virtual learning, interactive activities and face-to-face workshops.  It also includes tools and implementation resources to support our capacity to do the work. All of this education and training is being shared throughout the Atlantic Health system.  Read about simulation here (link to grant page) and the sepsis collaboration here. 

 

Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Training Curriculum led by Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Association with Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, has been funded by R Baby for a Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) training curriculum  which provides ultrasound training for faster evaluation of critically ill patients.