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   ou’ve heard the saying countless times: Children are not small adults. Never is this more apparent than when it’s your child who’s sick. Children are unique, growing individuals who require special care. And nobody knows more about caring for kids than children’s hospitals.
Whether your child needs to undergo a simple procedure or needs complex surgery, children’s hospitals are technologically advanced, child-friendly facilities staffed by the top pediatric specialists in the country. The National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) supports children’s hospitals and their efforts to ensure that all children receive the highest quality healthcare possible. Children’s hospitals devote 100 percent of their services to children. That’s why they are able to provide the majority of highly specialized care for children hospitalized with complex and rare conditions — regardless of ability to pay. In fact, children’s hospitals provide 90 percent of all pediatric heart surgeries, 94 percent of all pediatric transplants, and they care for 84 percent of children in hospitals for advanced cancer. While most children’s hospitals are best known for serving children with these severe conditions, they also help all children grow up healthy through routine and preventive care, including vaccinations, nutritional counseling and injury prevention education. NACHRI helps its member hospitals continuously improve in all areas of children’s healthcare by providing data and educational and networking opportunities that lead to new breakthroughs in pediatric healthcare.
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