Design Studio16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDTChildren's Hospitals This Weekhttp://multibriefs.com/briefs/NACHRI/NACHRI.xmlenGet an overview of Section 1115 Medicaid waivers and the Association's work in this area with an on-demand webinar. Rosie Valadez McStay, director of government and community relations at Texas Children's Hospital, discussed the Texas Section 1115 waiver and what the hospital is doing to meet these new requirements. H. Stacy Nicholson, MD, MPH, from Doernbecher Children's Hospital, reviewed the recently approved Oregon waiver and what it means for the hospital.16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=5193cc2e5ca221Meal ordering has traditionally been a manual, inefficient and occasionally frustrating process for patients and staff. With this webinar, learn how Hasbro Children's Hospital leveraged its best practices, brand and two interactive technologies to help improve the quality of the meal ordering experience for patients, families and staff.16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=5193cc5449cbf2Two graduate students fight the bureaucracy to gain coverage for their son under the Children's Health Insurance Program — and hope that provisions of the Affordable Care Act will cut the red tape. 16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=5194d4c641fc83An expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act is supposed to cover more of the working poor and balance out cuts that were made to already-struggling hospitals. But Republican-led states have been opting out or at least holding out, and outlying areas in states like Tennessee may be the hardest hit. 16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=5194d4ec015f54When enrollment in the health care law's new insurance exchanges opens in October, the prospects for success will turn on a crucial element: people who actually understand health insurance coverage and can explain it in plain language to consumers. 16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=5194d4908650b5The Central Ohio Poison Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital found that medication-related poisonings in children younger than 6 increased by 33 percent during the 11-year study period. The study is published in the May issue of Pediatric Emergency Care.16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=5193cc730cf436Paul A. King, who has successfully led a large, Los Angeles-based pediatric group practice for the past eight years, has been selected as the new executive director of the University of Michigan's top-ranked C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital. King is a senior executive at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=5193ccbd521527In February, hundreds of youth sports safety advocates convened at a Washington hotel. They were determined to talk about something other than concussions, a counterintuitive ambition considering the rampant worry about the effects of head trauma in young athletes. But the Washington group knew something most do not: the No. 1 killer of young athletes is sudden cardiac arrest, typically brought on by a pre-existing, detectable condition that could have been treated. Another substantial yet hidden lethal threat is heat stroke, a condition considered completely preventable. 16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=51939c15d23b38Non-profit children's hospitals traditionally have some of the highest financial metrics and ratios in the hospital sector due to high levels of philanthropy, strong investments and few, if any, competitors. However, over the past five years, their median ratios have declined to a more common industry level, according to a report from Standard & Poor's Ratings Services. 16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=51939c69271739The American Dental Association warns parents that they shouldn't suck their kids' pacifiers clean because they can transmit decay-causing bacteria to their child. The warning comes on the heels of a recently published study in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, about the immunological benefits of adult saliva.16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=519399f92ad2010The number of U.S. children who were exposed to violence, crime and abuse in 2011 was essentially unchanged from 2008, according to a new government survey. Researchers who interviewed 4,503 children and teenagers in 2011 found that two in five children reported being physically assaulted in the previous year, and one in every 10 kids was injured by that abuse.16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=5193990bb2aa611Almost 200 babies in Tennessee have been born this year with a dependence to drugs they were exposed to while in their mother's womb, with 22 reported from the Upper Cumberland region. Those babies were diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome after they exhibited signs of withdrawing from the drug they had received prior to birth.16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=51939bbaab83d12The seventh child to receive an experimental leukemia therapy at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia got good news recently: It worked. Aaron Walker and his wife, Christal, turned to Children's after reading about Emily Whitehead of Philipsburg, Pa., the first child to receive the hospital's genetically engineered therapy, made using each patient's disease-fighting "T cells." Emily remains in remission, a year after treatment.16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=51939ab633a1913Get an overview of Section 1115 Medicaid waivers and the Association's work in this area with an on-demand webinar. Rosie Valadez McStay, director of government and community relations at Texas Children's Hospital, discussed the Texas Section 1115 waiver and what the hospital is doing to meet these new requirements.16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=518a9f1b21b7714Children's Hospital Association and AORN partnered to create the first pediatric perioperative training module, Care of the Pediatric Patient in Surgery. Staff will learn to identify components of the perioperative pediatric assessment and plan of care, relate appropriate prevention interventions for potential complications and identify components of the pediatric patient intra- and postoperative plan of care.16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=51894f0b1379915Federally facilitated Exchanges and provider network adequacy have many implications for children's health care. But children's hospitals can influence state-level decisions related to provider network adequacy. 16 May 2013 08:58:31 CDThttp://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=51894ed91351a16