Advancing solutions in children's health

The 2024 Transforming Quality Conference was held in Chicago, Illinois, March 11-13, 2024. During the event, children’s hospital leaders learned from peers how to improve children’s health through advancements in data analytics, evolving care systems, creative partnerships, and practice improvement efforts.

Driven by the evolving priorities of children’s hospitals and health systems and the communities they serve, the conference focused on five areas for leaders to engage in:

Advances in health equity

• Identify key strategies and initiatives that effectively address health disparities and promote health equity in pediatric health care settings, engaging families and communities as partners.
• Address strategies to mitigate implicit and/or unconscious bias to promote a culture of humility and sensitivity among health care professionals providing equitable care to diverse patient populations.

Analytic enhancements

• Leverage analytic insights to identify staffing opportunities, improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Explore advancements in data analytics and emerging trends to support evidence-based decision-making and enhance clinical effectiveness in children's hospitals.

Behavioral and mental health

• Identify and discuss innovative practices to support the behavioral and mental health of children and adolescents, including expanding access and enhancing health care professionals' capacity to ensure the safety of patients and staff.
• Identify opportunities for integration and collaboration between mental health services, schools, communities and other sectors to address behavioral and mental health challenges and the underlying factors that contribute to them.

Clinical excellence

• Identify cultures of pediatric clinical excellence and explore various strategies and initiatives to improve pediatric healthcare delivery by sharing best practices, evidence-based guidelines, efficient workflows, care coordination among healthcare teams to ensure optimal patient outcomes and experiences.

Employee health and well-being

• Describe and discuss best practices to enhance the knowledge and skills of health care professionals, promote a culture of health and resilience, and improve professionals' health and well-being.
• Identify evolving care models, staffing alternatives and collaborate with health care organizations to improve well-being and health outcomes of employees, caregivers, patients and families.

To learn more about the conference and view session information and presentation slides, visit the 2024 Transforming Quality Conference website.