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8th Annual Forum for Improving Children's Healthcare March 9-12, 2009 Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas REGISTER NOW! SAVE $$$ if you register by January 23! PRELIMINARY LIST OF SESSIONS ANNOUNCED! Q-Call: Pay Now or Pay Later— Financing Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment Listen to the audio recording or download slides from the December 3, 2008 Q-Call. Thank you to Nemours Health & Prevention Services for their support of this Q-Call and the Childhood Obesity Action Network. NICHQ Showcases Innovative Approaches to Improving Care at IHI Forum NICHQ experts presented a full day session entitled Innovation – Lessons from Children’s Healthcare at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s National Forum on December 9. See session materials. NICHQ’s Childhood Obesity Action Network (COAN) recently published a new report! Childhood Obesity: The Role of Health Policy This report provides recommendations on actions that various stakeholders in health care can take to mount an effective health care response to the epidemic of childhood obesity. Learn more about COAN and download the report.

NICHQ's Improving Cultural Competency in Children's Health Care Change Package and findings. Asthma resources for clinicians, parents, school based health centers and others involved in the care of patients with asthma. The ADHD Toolkit produced jointly by the American Academy of Pediatrics and NICHQ is now available for download in our new Topics Section. NICHQ QI ListServ: The Child and Adolescent Healthcare Quality Improvement ListServ is a lively online community that shares a passion for quality improvement for children and adolescents -- what's new, what works, what doesn't. Participants raise questions, suggest ideas, and share reactions to anything related to health care for children and adolescents. NICHQ also will keep you posted about programs, progress, and new activities that we are undertaking. To sign up for the ListServ, send an e-mail to request-nichq-qi@ls.ihi.org and type Subscribe in the body of the message.


	New! A Review of the Evidence for the Medical Home for Children with Special Health Care Needs, co-authored by NICHQ CEO, Charles Homer, MD and published in the Oct. 08 issue of Pediatrics Discussions from NICHQ’s Wikispace Learn about NEW ideas and concepts from healthcare professionals throughout the U.S. on the following topics: Childhood Obesity Chronic Conditions Purging Harm Disparities Join the NICHQ team and make a difference in children’s healthcare!