NACHRI and Dorel Juvenile Group, USA are pleased to make available to all U.S.-based member hospitals an exclusive offer for the 2008 Safety House which includes $250 of complimentary child safety products.

Responding to a concerted advocacy effort before, during and after the 2008 N.A.C.H. Family Advocacy Day, House and Senate appropriators increase CHGME funding to $310 million. In other action before the July 4 recess, the Senate passes, and the President signs, legislation imposing moratoria on six Medicaid rules. 

Learn how Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center implemented a successful advertising campaign to raise money for their capital campaign. View the presentation and video clips.

With strong, bipartisan leadership, the full Appropriations Committees of the U.S. Senate yesterday passed FY 2009 Labor-HHS Appropriations bills containing $310 million each in funding for CHGME.

The Grants Alert features federal, private, and pediatric research grant opportunities for children’s hospitals. From the At-A-Glance page, you link to easy to read grant analyses providing summary, funding eligibility, contact, and deadline information. (Accessible by Grants Project participants only.) 

Submit a proposal for a session or poster for this multi-disciplinary conference on quality, child advocacy, grants, public relations, data and benchmarking, health informatics and more. Proposals due July 25.

Several states enacted measures to expand health care coverage and reduce barriers to enrollment, while one state expanded a controversial program that could reduce access to health services. Read more in this month’s State Policy Services Update.