About NICHQ
Founded in 1999, the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) is an independent, not-for-profit, quality improvement organization dedicated to achieving a world in which all children receive the high quality healthcare they need.
Led by experienced pediatric healthcare professionals, NICHQ’s mission is to improve child health and well being by improving the systems responsible for the delivery of children’s healthcare. Specifically, NICHQ:
- builds sustainable system improvement capabilities;
- accelerates adoption of best practices; and
- advocates for high quality children’s healthcare.
NICHQ’s current initiatives focus on ensuring that every child receives care in a high-performing medical home, including:
- the prevention and treatment of obesity;
- improving care systems for children with special healthcare needs; and
- improving perinatal care.
For more than a decade, through the expertise of clinical and improvement leaders and parents, NICHQ has directly shaped the quality of care for children and youth in the areas of access and efficiency in office practice, asthma, autism, children in foster care, diabetes, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, cystic fibrosis, hearing loss, epilepsy, obesity, oral health, neonatal care, prevention and spina bifida.
