Quality Improvement
Improving children’s health requires an approach at the national level to reform outdated payment systems for the more than 9,000 children with medical complexity, at the care delivery level to improve care coordination among providers and at the clinical level to improve patient outcomes and provide better value.
Patient Safety
Preventable harm occurs even in the best hospitals, and children’s hospitals are focused on improving patient safety practices for the best outcomes. The association sponsors improvement initiatives and works with other organizations to eliminate harm at children’s hospitals across the country.
Measurement & Standards
Children require different care than adults and children’s hospitals need quality measures that reflect the unique aspects of working with pediatric patients. CHA represents children and children’s hospitals in health care quality policy, advocacy and regulatory activities, especially with regard to quality measurement and regulatory and accreditation requirements.
Operations & Performance Improvement
Children’s hospitals face huge challenges to improve patient outcomes, decrease costs and transform the delivery of care while maintaining training programs for the next generation of pediatricians and specialists.