Levine Children’s Hospital
CAPE advances pediatric quality improvement through resident education, project mentorship, coaching, interdisciplinary collaboration and the shared learning of successful improvement work.
Explore the program background, resident curriculum, annual Quality Improvement Coaching Conference, awards, project examples and CAPE team contacts.
Program background
A pediatric improvement center based at Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Levine Children’s Hospital’s Center for Advancing Pediatric Excellence (CAPE), in Charlotte, NC, is committed to transforming the care for all children who enter our doors and are cared for by our physicians and clinicians.
Resident quality improvement education
Residents progress from learning foundational QI terminology and methods to participating in improvement work and ultimately championing a project.
There is an increasing expectation for pediatricians to demonstrate excellent health outcomes for children. These requirements derive from many sources. For residents, these requirements come from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and include competencies of Practice-Based Learning and Improvement and Systems-Based Practice.
Residents are dedicated and passionate about providing the best possible care for their patients. Unfortunately, the Quality Improvement (QI) methods needed to provide that care have not been broadly taught during pediatric training, therefore few residents have had experience practicing those methods.
The curriculum will provide you with well-researched and tested material to build your capacity to recognize, understand and facilitate QI in healthcare. It will also provide a transferable knowledge base for your future practice.
Annual coaching conference
In the fall, CAPE hosts an annual Quality Improvement Coaching Conference (QuICC) where fellows present current QI projects and benefit from collaboration with faculty and participants.
For more information, please email Sarah Mabus .
Program recognition
The QI curriculum has been awarded the Children’s Hospital Association Pediatric Quality Award in the Delivery System Transformation category. Every other year, this award honors and spreads successful improvement initiatives that children’s hospitals can replicate.
Award judges commended the program for addressing a need for QI training upstream and noted the ability this program has to impact care far beyond the walls of Levine Children’s Hospital as trainees disseminate this QI culture upon graduation.
An evaluation of the program can be found in the February 2016 issue of the Journal of Graduate Medical Education in the Educational Innovation section.
Pediatric residents’ QI work is recognized annually at the enterprise-wide Atrium Health Resident and Fellow Quality Improvement Poster Reception sponsored by Atrium Health’s Graduate Medical Education department, with awards such as “Most Impactful” and “Most Innovative.”
Resident scholarship
Review examples of resident-led pediatric quality improvement work. Each poster opens as a PDF in a new browser tab.
Program contacts
Contact a member of the CAPE team for additional information about the program, curriculum, coaching or conference.
