About This Event

The Transforming Quality Conference will be held March 31-April 2, in Orlando, Florida. During this conference, children’s hospitals will have the opportunity to connect, share learnings, and collaborate on care and system improvements that impact child health outcomes.

Help your peers advance solutions in children’s health by sharing your organizations’ approaches for improving children’s health and health care through advancements in data analytics and practice improvement efforts. Children's Hospital Association (CHA) supports work that integrates the quality improvement science and uses data to tell a story. Your experience can help other children’s hospitals and health systems evaluate their improvement processes as they implement change.

Registration for the conference will open in January.

Conference details

Date: March 31–April 2, 2025
Location: Orlando, Florida
Hotel: Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Resort

Conference themes

Driven by the evolving priorities of children’s hospitals, health systems and communities, the conference will focus on five areas:

Health equity in practice

• Implemented key initiatives and practical strategies that promote equitable access or care.
• Highlight the link between patient outcomes and health equity outcomes or access to care and share key strategies that drive improvement in both areas.
• Reduced variation in care within diverse segments of the patient population.
• Removed barriers and established multisector partnerships to reduce health disparities.

Clinical improvement

• Administered a highly reliable clinical process that led to top-tier clinical outcomes.
• Regained/achieved stability in clinical processes that address infections and other hospital-acquired conditions using high-reliability principles or other innovative tactics.
• Incorporated forward-thinking tactics aimed at linking workforce wellness and employee well-being to clinical improvement.

Advancing quality in behavioral health

• Applied quality improvement initiatives aimed at improving high-risk behavioral health and mental health care processes.
• Identified health disparities at play in high-risk behavioral health patient populations and implemented equity related interventions.
• Tested interventions which expanded access and enhanced the capacity of health care professionals to ensure patient and staff safety. Examples may include advancements in the management of workplace violence.

Employee well-being

• Implemented interventions designed to address employee health and well-being using quality improvement methodologies and data to define, improve, and maintain targeted results.
• Engaged employees in advancing innovative measures of well-being. May also explore linkages between well-being and clinical quality and patient experience.
• Explored inventive tactics that incorporate a multipronged approach to address the various dimensions of employee well-being. For example, reducing administrative burden on bedside staff relative to the electronic health record and incident/safety reporting.

Analytic enhancement

• Advanced clinical improvement projects that use predictive modeling to support measurable improvement.
• Leveraged data to advance clinical improvement in an ambulatory setting.
• Used data visualization concepts and dashboards to engage front-line staff and drive improvement initiatives.