This Thursday, at 1 p.m. (ET) NACHRI, together with PricewaterhouseCoopers, is hosting a national dialogue on health care reform at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Find out more and watch it live.

Key issues and reports on child abuse, injury prevention, and childhood obesity are available through links in this Bulletin. Listen in on the National Conversation on Health Care. Learn through participation in webinars or conferences.

The president-elect’s mandate that all children have health insurance aligns with the first of nine principles for children’s coverage in health care reform released by N.A.C.H.

The fall issue of Children’s Hospitals Today looks at care both within and beyond the walls of children’s hospitals, showing ways care is brought to communities, as well as looking at how community benefit reporting, quality improvement collaboratives and hospital-acquired condition reimbursement will affect the future of pediatric health care.

Featured this month are private funding opportunities for Camps for Children with Special Health Care Needs. Monthly Alerts provide succinct analyses of topic-specific and general child health funding opportunities. (Accessible by Grants Project participants only.) 

Access presentations and audio recordings of key sessions covering community benefit reporting, patient safety initiatives, certified pediatric nursing programs and more. Read about and comment on these and other top issues at the conference blog.

The push continues for an increase in federal Medicaid matching funds to states as interest in an economic stimulus package grows and congressional leaders look past Election Day to a possible lame duck session.