Quality
Learning
2026 Quality Conference
Connect, share learnings, and collaborate on care and system improvements that impact child health outcomes.
New Readmissions Benchmarking Tool Guides Quality Improvement
A readmissions predictor helps children’s hospitals reduce patient stays and compare their rates to peers at every APR-DRG level.
Improving Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes
Children’s Hospital Association and its members are leading efforts to reduce deaths and disabilities from sepsis.
Insights
The Top Pediatric Safety Issues of 2025
The only federally designated pediatric Patient Safety Organization in the country reveals the top concerns children’s hospitals are addressing.
AI-Driven Insights: Uncovering Patient Safety Trends with ChatGPT
Explore how Stanford Medicine Children’s Health uses advanced large language models to revolutionize patient safety by analyzing near-miss and precursor safety events.
How to Decrease Deaths Attributable to Pediatric Sepsis
A change package developed by the Improving Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes collaborative helps hospitals identify and treat the condition sooner.
Solutions
Improving Operating Room Utilization in Children's Hospitals
Find out how a cross-departmental initiative led to more ENT surgeries and increased overall operating room utilization at one children’s hospital.
A New Method for Preventing Patient Harm
An innovative approach to preventing safety events leads to dramatically improved outcomes at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
Crushing CLABSIs With Communication
By reimagining a daily team tool, three medical-surgical units went two years without a CLABSI.
About Children's Hospital Association
Children's Hospital Association is the national voice of more than 200 children's hospitals, advancing child health through innovation in the quality, cost and delivery of care.