In 2025, Children's Hospital Association (CHA) continued to grow its affinity group for children's hospital leaders in community health and community benefit. The group's participants represent 42 children's hospitals and hold roles in strategy, program development, implementation, evaluation, and reporting within their institutions.
Value
- Timely presentations deliver peer and industry expertise.
- Six virtual Community Health Conversations and two in-person two-day meetings covered topics such as mental and behavioral health, violence prevention, school health, mobile health, food security, community benefit, team structure and staffing, and more.
- Affinity Group network solidifies ad-hoc professional relationships.
- In addition to participant-fostered connections, CHA facilitated targeted pairings between affinity group hospitals and opportunities for in-depth collaboration on key topics.
- Peer exchange via discussion list and on-demand library provide key resources when they are needed.
- A document library includes Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA) and Implementation Strategy Reports, along with discussion notes and recorded presentations.
2024 Enrollment
- Advocate Children's Hospital
- Akron Children's Hospital
- American Family Children's Hospital
- Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
- Arkansas Children's Hospital
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Children's Health, Dallas
- Children's Health of Orange County
- Children's Nebraska
- Children's Hospital Colorado
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Children's Mercy Kansas City
- Children's Minnesota
- Children's National Hospital
- Children's of Alabama
- Children's Wisconsin
- Cincinnati Children's
- Cohen Children's Medical Center
- Cook Children's Medical Center
- Dartmouth Health Children's
- Dayton Children's Hospital
- Hawaii Pacific Health
- Henry Ford Health
- Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
- Manning Family Children’s Hospital
- Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Network
- Nationwide Children's Hospital
- Nemours Children's Health
- Nicklaus Children's Hospital
- OSF Children's Hospital of Illinois
- Primary Children's Hospital
- Rady Children's Hospital — San Diego
- Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health
- Seattle Children's
- St. Louis Children's Hospital
- St. Luke's Children's Hospital
- Texas Children's Hospital
- UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
- Valley Children's Healthcare
- Wolfson Children's Hospital
Contact Stacy Wathen at (202) 753-5341 for more information about enrolling in the Community Health Affinity Group.
