National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality: National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality

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The National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) is an action-oriented organization dedicated solely to improving the quality of health care provided to children. Founded in 1999, NICHQ's mission is to eliminate the gap between what is and what can be in health care for all children. A national organization with its home office in Cambridge, NICHQ also works with staff and faculty across the country.

NICHQ's efforts focus on its four part improvement agenda:

-Prevention of childhood obesity

-Promoting evidence based, family centered care for children with chronic conditions

-Purging harm from children's health care

-Promoting equity in care and outcomes for all children.

Led by experienced children's health care professionals, NICHQ works to improve children's health care independently and by working in collaboration with others who share this goal. Specifically, we:

Raise Awareness

NICHQ calls attention to the need for better children's health care, and spreads stories of success that demonstrate care can be improved to produce better outcomes.

Discover Better Ways to Provide Care

NICHQ identifies and develops promising practices in children's health care. We seek to be the premier resource for the most effective methods and approaches in improving care for children.

Help Improve Care

NICHQ provides tool and methods to improve care - at the practice, hospital, community, state and national level. We help delivery organizations make changes based on the best available evidence and formulate policies that support and accelerate improvement.