Overview
The Annual Forum for Improving Children’s Healthcare: 10 Years and Growing, will bring together healthcare professionals of all disciplines to highlight the most promising work being done in support of NICHQ’s bold agenda to improve children’s healthcare quality.
Forum Objectives
- Build will for improvement
- Create a community of healthcare organizations, patients and families, communities and policy makers—working together and sharing information to transform healthcare for children
- Disseminate promising strategies to improve quality of care
- Mobilize efforts to eliminate the gap in care for children within the areas of NICHQ’s agenda for improving children’s healthcare
2010 Conference Topics
NICHQ's Annual Forum is the only national conference solely dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare for children and their families. Each year, healthcare personnel from across the country gather here to share innovative ideas and learn new and creative quality methods from others with similar initiatives.
The forum will center around four topic areas:
- Patient Safety
- Childhood Obesity
- Chronic Conditions
- Quality Improvement—linked to finance, advocacy and equity in care
