A new Case Mix Web conference series on the last Wednesday on every month features tips on maximizing the application. Open to all NACHRI members.

To enhance data quality, NACHRI has incorporated new data elements and standards as well as streamlined existing data elements into a new file format to be called “PedsClinical.” These enhancements will require participating hospitals to submit a new data file format in 2008. 

N.A.C.H. invites government relations and other member hospital professionals to participate in weekly legislative update conference calls. These are half-hour calls updating members on the latest federal legislative developments. 

More than 200 participants from 35 children’s hospitals traveled to Washington, DC, to talk with key legislators. View photos, videos, blogs and more from this event.

Solve your toughest issues in the PICU, oncology/BMT, and ambulatory and emergency care through collaborative interdisciplinary teams from children's hospitals. Registration is open for 2009 groups.

Identify and advance successful components of hospital-based clinical weight management programs through a new NACHRI grant-sponsored FOCUS Group. Applications due Aug. 11.

In this letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt and Office of Management and Budget Director James Nussle, N.A.C.H. requests that the Administration publish final guidelines for children's hospital participation in the 340B Drug Pricing Program.