More than half of Medicaid enrollees are children. Any reform measure will impact children, and those who provide care to children. But children and their needs have been largely overlooked as the reform debate heats up.
This week, during Covering the Uninsured Week, we invite you to read what children's hospitals are doing to help cover the uninsured. The information is included in the current issue of Child Health Trends Update (March 2003), a bi-monthly online publication for national media published by the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI).
The March issue of Child Health Trends Update includes: -- an overview of how Medicaid is the largest children's health insurer and how any reform measure would impact all children and those who provide care to children
-- examples of how children's hospitals across the United States are helping to solve the problem of the uninsured
-- a list of national spokespersons on federal child health policy
-- an update on important child health legislation.
Below is a link to the current (March 2003) issue of Child Health Trends Update.http://www.childrenshospitals.net/nachri/news/acc_chtumar03.html
For additional news from the nation's children's hospitals, the following link will take visitors to recent press releases from NACHRI and its public policy affiliate, N.A.C.H. http://www.childrenshospitals.net/nach/news/press.asp
The National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI), an organization of 160 children's hospitals and related institutions in the United States and Canada, promotes the health and well-being of children and their families through support of children's hospitals and health systems. NACHRI and its members work collectively to ensure children's access to health care and the continuing ability of children's hospitals to provide services that all children need.
The National Association of Children's Hospitals (N.A.C.H.) is the public policy affiliate of NACHRI. Representing more than 100 freestanding acute care children's hospitals, freestanding children's rehabilitation and specialty hospitals, and children's hospitals organized within larger medical centers, N.A.C.H. addresses public policy issues affecting children's hospitals' missions of service to the children of their communities, including clinical care, education, research and advocacy.
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