Children's Memorial Hospital's current public policy
priorities and positions
Public policies are critical to the ability of Children’s Memorial to care for all children, through clinical care, training, research and public health advocacy. As health care policies are debated at the state and federal levels, Children’s Memorial works with policymakers to ensure children’s unique health care needs are not overlooked and that every child has access to high quality, cost effective primary, preventive and specialty care services tailored to meet their needs.
Children’s Memorial’s current public policy priorities are as follows:
Public policy positions
Abandoned newborn babies
Childhood immunizations
Children and youth with special health care needs
Early intervention, grassroots advocacy, health care reform, HIV testing of pregnant women and newborns
Adverse effects of environmental tobacco smoke on children
Access to health insurance for kids
Juvenile justice, federal graduate medical education (GME) funding, obesity, professional liability reform
Access to tobacco products by minors
Violent and unintentional injuries, food allergy and anaphylaxis
Immigration and children’s access to healthcare
Health information technology
Adolescent HIV infection