Standardizing Care and Parental Training to Improve Training Duration, Referral Frequency, and Length of Stay: Our Quality Improvement Project Experience.

•A standardized approach to parental tracheostomy training decreased duration of parental training and hospital length of stay.•Institution of unit specific protocols for infants with tracheostomy tubes increased referrals to Developmental and Behavioral Pediatricians for developmental evaluations.•Implementation of a structured parental tracheostomy training program resulted in positive survey comment from parents, staff, and physicians.