About the conference

The Transforming Quality Conference will be held March 23 - 25, 2026 in Arlington, Texas. During this conference, children’s hospitals will have the opportunity to connect, share learnings, and collaborate on care and system improvements that impact child health outcomes.

Help your peers advance solutions in children’s health by sharing your organizations’ approaches for improving children’s health and health care through advancements in data analytics and practice improvement efforts. CHA supports work that integrates the quality improvement science and uses data to tell a story. Your experience can help other children’s hospitals and health systems evaluate their improvement processes as they implement change.

For guidance as you work to write a strong proposal, reference CHA's Online Proposal Submission Outline.

Conference registration will open in January.

Conference themes

Driven by the evolving priorities of children’s hospitals, health systems and communities, the conference will focus on six areas:

Enhancing quality in behavioral health

• Quality improvement initiatives supporting mental and behavioral health care processes.
• Interventions that expand access and enhance the capacity of health care professionals to ensure patient and staff safety.
• Actions that identify health disparities in behavioral health patient populations and address disparities with equity-related interventions.
• Techniques of rapid design and response to treat acute pediatric behavioral health issues (e.g., youth suicide prevention and firearm injury prevention).

Population and community health improvement strategies

• Solutions focused on building partnerships with community-based organizations that contribute to child health.
• Efforts addressing the integration of school-based information and solutions into pediatric health care.
• Ambulatory efforts directed at serving population health.

Intersection of workforce and quality improvement

• Quality strategies aimed at increasing workforce retention, joy of work, and well-being.
• Implementations that reduce waste, streamline work, and increase the capability and capacity of the system workforce.
• Safety solutions and projects that address workplace violence.

Innovations in clinical improvement

• Multidisciplinary and ambulatory collaborations that result in top tier clinical outcomes.
• Clinical processes grounded in high reliability principles that lead to sustained clinical advancement.
• Projects directed at providing a proactive safety culture.
• Initiatives that incorporate quality improvement methodologies to address patient and family engagement and satisfaction.

Technology and analytic implementations

• System-level artificial intelligence and analytical projects that advance clinical improvement.
• Quality measurement tools and applications demonstrating positive child health outcomes.
• Strategies that involve data usage and integration into quality improvement methodologies.
• Data visualization concepts that engage front-line staff and tell the story of quality improvement initiatives.

Health equity solutions

• Multi-sector and community partnerships that address and reduce health disparities.
• Practical initiatives and strategies that promote equitable access to care (e.g., order set and policy changes that address health equity).
• Findings that reduce variations in care within diverse segments of the patient population.

Conference details

Date: March 23–25, 2026
Location: Arlington, Texas
Hotel: Lowes Arlington Hotel and Convention Center, 888 Nolan Ryan Expressway, Arlington, Texas, 76011

Pricing

Early bird rate: $1,250 (Register by Feb. 27)
Regular rate: $1,400 (Starts Feb. 28)
Discounted rate for speakers, poster presenters, and steering committee members: $1,000
Forum + conference bundle rate: $875 (Available to participants attending both a forum and the main conference)