What Is the Association About?

The Children's hospital is representing 220 children’s hospitals, they are the voice of children’s hospitals nationally. 

Children’s hospitals are essential providers, setting the standard for the highest quality pediatric care while training the next generation of pediatricians. With its members, the CHA champions policies that enable children’s hospitals to better serve children; leverages its position as the pediatric leader in data analytics to facilitate national collaborative and research efforts to improve performance; and spreads best practices to benefit the nation’s children.

 Priorities/Core Values

• Ensure a healthy future for all children 
• Build awareness of children’s health care needs and how they are different
• Innovate solutions that improve child health, pediatric health care and reduce costs to the health care system
• Advance collaborative change through children’s hospitals
• Emphasize children’s hospitals as a critical community resources
• We serve with purpose and passion
• We collaborate to have a greater impact
• We are trustworthy
• We embrace change with optimism
• We are responsible stewards