Community Health Matters: How to Make an Impact
Communities play a central role in children’s health and the health of their families. The conditions where children live, learn, and play contribute to their health and well-being. To address factors such as nutrition, access to health care, and safe living conditions, children’s hospitals’ work goes beyond the hospital walls, directly into communities.
Through targeted programs and partnerships, children’s hospitals address social drivers of health, support rural health, provide vital resources, and improve health outcomes. Find a collection of these strategies below. If your hospital is making an impact, we want to hear from you.
About Children's Hospital Association
Children’s Hospital Association is the national voice of more than 200 children’s hospitals, advancing child health through innovation in the quality, cost, and delivery of care.
Social Drivers of Health
Screening for Social Drivers of Health: Children's Hospitals Respond
A Children’s Hospital Association and Nyoo Health report shares how children’s hospitals and health systems screen patients and families for social drivers of health.
Addressing Social Drivers of Health: Children's Hospitals Taking Action
Hospitals and health systems are forming programs and partnerships to create a network of services that address the social drivers of health.
Does a Child's Neighborhood Affect Their Chances of Hospitalization?
Recent studies confirm the major influence of social and community factors on children’s health.
Rural Health
Initiative Seeks to Strengthen Pediatric Care in Rural Georgia
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Mercer University School of Medicine have combined efforts to support rural health care providers who care for children.
Go Broad or Go Home: Sustaining a Rural Workforce
A health system is taking an expansive approach to bolster its workforce and improve economic opportunity in its state.
Overcoming Rural Health Care Challenges
Children’s hospitals should be the spark and catalyst for creative solutions in the face of reimbursement and workforce challenges.
School Health
Prevention Through Intervention: A School-Based Behavioral Health Program
A system of behavioral health centers increases access and intervention for students in more than 280 New York schools.
School-Based Telehealth Improves Outcomes and Equity
For low-income schools in North Carolina, a health system’s telehealth services are much more than a convenience.
Creating Healthy School Environments
A children’s hospital collaborates with schools to ensure students have safe places to learn.
Community Partnerships
Becoming a Difference Maker
A nurse’s quest to improve social drivers of health in her hometown.
How Children’s Hospitals Support Their Communities
A Wolfson Children’s Hospital program illustrates the multitude of community benefits offered by children’s hospitals throughout the country.
How Children's Hospitals Are Addressing Food Insecurity
Learn how children's hospitals and health systems are working to provide vital resources to address food and nutrition insecurity among children.
Webinars On Demand
Social Drivers of Health: Screening in the Clinical Setting
Learn how Phoenix Children's Care Network overcame common challenges to implement social drivers of health processes within its primary care network.
Screening for Social Drivers of Health: Engaging Families
Learn how incorporating families fosters trust, encourages honest responses, and holds providers accountable to enhance the effectiveness of health interventions.
Children’s Health and Climate: A Children’s Hospital Perspective
Join Children’s Hospital Association for “Children’s Health and Climate,” a two-part webinar series exploring the ways climate change impacts children’s hospitals and pediatric health.
