The Commonwealth Fund has announced that the National Initiative for Children's Health Care Quality (NICHQ) will be hosting Forging Connections, the Fifth Annual Forum for Improving Children's Health Care, March 16-18 at the Royal Pacific Resort in Orlando, Fla.

The event aims to build will for improvement by highlighting successful evidence-based models and interventions and creating a community of dedicated professionals, policy-makers, and payers who are working to transform health care for children. Topics to be covered include family-centered care, systems transformation, clinical innovations, reducing health disparities, and more.

Fund staff and grantees will take part in several forum sessions, including:

• Peter Margolis, MD, PhD,  Kim Paul, and Judy Shaw:  Increasing Capacity of Primary Care Practices to Provide Organized Preventive Services: Models from Across the Nation  
• Edward Schor, MD, and Melinda Abrams:  Working dinner on preventive and developmental services for young children
• David Bergman:  Innovation and Change in Well Child Care: The Results of a National Conference to Generate Innovations for Well Child Care

For more information or to register, visit the NICHQ Web site at http://www.nichq.org/NICHQ/Programs/ConferencesAndTraining/5thannualforum.htm.

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