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ABSTRACTDecember 16th, 2009
The Virginia Department of Health has successfully maintained the Virginia Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program (VEHDIP), which mandated newborn hearing screening in 1999. In the past year, there were 108,261 live births in Virginia with 99.7% of infants being screened at the hospital before discharge; however, in this process, 0.3% of the infants were missed. In addition, 12% were referred and lost to follow up. Recognizing the need to address infants who are lost to follow up, the Virginia Follow-up Improvement Project (VFIP) has been created to provide quality services to the diverse population that exists. VFIP is designed to increase the percentage of infants who failed newborn hearing screening and who have a diagnosis before 3 months; increase the percentage of children with hearing loss who receive recommended early intervention services before 6 months of age; increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the VEHDIP surveillance system to promote the best use of pub
