As Congress continues its summer recess, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announces that it will not enforce the highly criticized "Aug. 17 Directive," which limits states' abilities to extend SCHIP coverage to uninsured children. 

A few states enacted health care legislation during an otherwise slow month. For more details, plus an update on the Aug. 17, 2007, SCHIP directive, read this month’s issue of State Policy Services Update.

Featured this month are private funding opportunities for Child Life Services. Monthly Alerts provide succinct analyses of topic-specific and general child health funding opportunities. 

N.A.C.H. announced the appointment of M. James (Jim) Kaufman, Ph.D., former director of government affairs for Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Institutions, to the position of vice president of public policy, effective July 28, 2008.

Learn about upcoming events and news focused on child abuse and neglect, injury prevention and childhood obesity.

Join us for series of webinars in September to learn how NACHRI's data and research can help you measure and improve care, reduce costs, advance advocacy for reimbursement, and increase staff efficiency.

Join us on September 18 at 1:00 pm ET as Mark Jackson, president & CEO of VIZION Interactive, presents an overview of how search engines work, how they rank Web pages and how you can get your hospital's Web site noticed.