Read-a-thon Results & Feedback Survey

Your Full Name *

First Name Last Name

Your Email Address *

Your NICU Title/Role *

Hospital and NICU Name, (university affiliation if applicable) *

Hospital Location (City, State, Country) *

Full hospital mailing address *

What is your NICU's (estimated) annual # of babies admitted to the hospital? *

Total # Read-a-thon Reading Sessions/Tickets (over the full read-a-thon period) *

Average Daily Census during NICU read-a-thon (ex. avg 10 babies/day) *

# Days of your Read-a-thon (Sep 12-22 is 11 days, not 10) *

How many reading sessions were there on each day of the read-a-thon? What was your daily census?

	# Reading Sessions on This Day	Daily Census on This Day
September 12 (or day 1 if doing a read-a-thon longer/shorter than September 12-22)
September 13 (day 2)
September 14 (day 3)
September 15 (day 4)
September 16 (day 5)
September 17 (day 6)
September 18 (day 7)
September 19 (day 8)
September 20 (day 9)
September 21 (day 10)
September 22 (day 11)
Day 12 (if doing read-a-thon longer/shorter than September 12-22)
Day 13 (if doing read-a-thon longer/shorter than September 12-22)
Day 14 (if doing read-a-thon longer/shorter than September 12-22)
Day 15 (if doing read-a-thon longer/shorter than September 12-22)
Day 16 (if doing read-a-thon longer/shorter than September 12-22)
Day 17 (if doing read-a-thon longer/shorter than September 12-22)
Day 18 (if doing read-a-thon longer/shorter than September 12-22)
Day 19 (if doing read-a-thon longer/shorter than September 12-22)
Day 20 (if doing read-a-thon longer/shorter than September 12-22)

Please confirm that BWB may share your center’s data (No PHI) and feedback on the BWB website and in presentations and publications. *

Yes, I confirm

Did your NICU use the Read-a-thon Process Guide (the resources we provided)? *

Yes No

If your NICU used the Read-a-thon Process Guide, was it helpful?

Yes No

If your NICU used the Read-a-thon Process Guide, how helpful was it?

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1 is Not helpful, 10 is Very helpful

Did you host a celebration of your read-a-thon? *

Yes No

If you hosted a read-a-thon celebration, please describe (include whether the celebration was during and/or after your read-a-thon).

Did your NICU support reading with NICU babies prior to this read-a-thon? *

Yes No

Rate the level of your NICU's reading support before the read-a-thon. *

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1 is No reading support, 10 is A lot of reading support

Rate the level of your NICU's reading support after the read-a-thon. *

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1 is No reading support, 10 is A lot of reading support

Has participating in this read-a-thon encouraged your NICU to start or further develop a reading program? *

Yes No

If yes, please describe your NICU reading plans

What were the best aspects of this NICU read-a-thon (please describe these for both families and staff)? *

Approximately how many books did your NICU give to families during the read-a-thon? *

Did your NICU get books donated? *

Yes No

If your NICU got books donated, how many and from where?

Did your NICU get monetary donations/funding for the read-a-thon? *

Yes No

If your NICU got monetary donations/funding, how and from where?

What can we do next year to better support participating NICUs throughout the read-a-thon? *

How many months before the read-a-thon should we begin advertising/inviting NICUs to join? *

How helpful were we, the Babies With Books team, during this read-a-thon? *

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1 is Not helpful at all, 10 is Very helpful

What advice can you give to other NICUs for participating in the read-a-thon next year? *

Do you have any resources you recommend we share with NICUs in next year's process guide that we do not currently share? If so, please describe them/add links below!

Other than the Vermont Oxford Network and March of Dimes, what groups would you recommend we connect with to share the read-a-thon? How should we get in touch with these organizations? If you have a name, email or contact, please list below

How did you advertise the read-a-thon (to NICU families, healthcare providers, hospital leaders, donors, etc)? *

If you participated in the read-a-thon last year (September 2021), how has your NICU's literacy promotion changed since last year's event?

For future read-a-thons, please rank your preference for which month the event should be held in. 1 is your HIGHEST preference. 12 is your LOWEST preference.

Did your hospital's read-a-thon participation get any news coverage? If so, please provide a link. See https://www.babieswithbooks.org/message for examples.

Please upload any and all photos you want to share from your read-a-thon! If you upload photos of people, even without their face, (BOTH hospital staff AND families need to fill out the form), you must fill out a photo release form per person (including baby) photographed and upload here. The photo releases can be downloaded and printed at babieswithbooks.org/photo-release

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By sharing these photos, you agree BWB and its affiliates can use them with unrestricted access.

If you would like, describe the photos you uploaded. If you would like us to highlight the hospital staff in the photos by name and title, list those below along with a description of them in the photo so we can identify them.

Please provide any other feedback or comments.

2022 Read-a-thon Results & Feedback Survey

Thank you so much for participating in our multi-site NICU read-a-thon!