Children's Hospitals Today: Top 10 Articles of 2024
Children's Hospital Association's digital publication, Children's Hospitals Today, regularly publishes articles featuring member hospitals’ success stories and strategies to provide insights and ideas to improve performance and patient care. Here’s a look at our readers’ favorites from this year.

The Secret Sauce to Increasing Satisfaction Scores
A children’s hospital achieved dramatic gains in patient-family satisfaction scores by letting frontline staff members drive the solution.
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A Simple Process to Reduce the Need for Physical Restraints
A five-minute process led to a 67% reduction in the use of restraints for behavioral health patients in the emergency department.
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Strategies for Six Issues Facing Children's Hospitals
These topics are trending as hospitals seek to improve care and operations.
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Retention Strategies: How Two Hospitals Are Adapting to Today’s Workforce
Flexible scheduling and career models have improved retention at these children’s hospitals.
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10 Effective Ways to Engage With Schools
Children’s hospitals have expanded their partnerships with schools to support student health and academic success.
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The Newest Role in Children's Hospitals
A children's hospital created a new position charged with developing and managing its artificial intelligence technology.
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Bringing a Critical Heart Procedure to the Bedside
A special protocol allows clinicians to bring a critical transcatheter device to the most fragile babies.
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5 Programs to Improve Employee Retention
These workforce initiatives have proven effective at reducing staff turnover at children's hospitals.
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Inclusive Hair Care Options: Sourcing Products for Inpatients
An Illinois children’s hospital’s journey to create hospital-grade products for curly hair.
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Improving Pediatric Heart Transplantation With Artificial Intelligence
An open-source machine learning technique could reduce waitlist mortality rates and unused donor organs.
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