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Children's Hospital Boston Joins the ALTERNATIVE QUALITY CONTRACT

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA), Children’s Hospital Boston, Children’s Physicians’ Organization and the Pediatric Physician Organization at Children’s (PPOC) today announced an agreement to a new contract that marks the first pediatric-only hospital to sign the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC). The contract includes a 0% rate increase for 2012 and modest increases below general inflation through the remainder of the three-year contract.Introduced in 2009, the AQCis a modified global payment model designed to slow the growth in health care spending and improve patient care by helping physicians and hospitals redesign their care to emphasize quality and value over volume. More...

Williams honored for Outstanding Achievement by ASGCT

Congratulations to David Williams, MD, chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology and director of Translational Research at Children's, and associate chair of Pediatric Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who has been selected by the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy as the recipient of their 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award for his significant contributions to the field of gene and cell therapy. More...

The Boston Globe recognizes Children’s Hospital Boston as a Top Place to Work

Children’s Hospital Boston has been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts in the fourth annual employee-based survey project from The Boston Globe, ranking #9 on the large employers list.  The 2011 Globe 100 Top Places to Work list was published in the Sunday Globe on November 6. More...

NCR Picker recognizes Children’s for its commitment to improving the patient experience

NRC Picker (NRCP), a division of National Research Corporation, has selected member Children’s Hospital Boston as a recipient of its 2011 Path to Excellence award. The winners were selected from NRC Picker's extensive database of members for their performance over the last four quarters. Children’s was selected for its top ranking in the category of Children’s Hospital: Overall Rating. More...

Critical Care Units Honored for Excellence

The Children's NICU and MSICU were awarded Beacon Awards for Excellence by The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses for achieving exceptional and sustained unit performance and patient outcomes. The NICU and MSICU are the first in the U.S. to receive gold-level status. More...

Children's is atop the U.S.News Rankings

Children's Hospital Boston ranks first in more specialties than any other children's hospital in the nation according to the 2011-12 edition of Best Children's Hospitals by U.S.News & World Report. Children's Hospital Boston ranks first in six out of the 10 specialties including Cancer, Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and Urology. The "Best Children's Hospitals" ranking will be published in the August print issue of U.S. News & World Report. More...

From The Boston Globe: Babies enlisted in brain research

The Boston Globe reports on the sophisticated imaging techniques employed by Children's Ellen Grant, MD, and Nadine Gaab, PhD, to study the developing brain in order to learn more about dyslexia and other learning disabilities. More...

Safe, efficient method reported for creating and differentiating human pluripotent stem cells

Children's Hospital Boston researchers have discovered a new way to reprogram ordinary human cells into stem cells, using RNAs, appears safer and much more efficient than current methods- and can much more readily transform stem cells into specialized cells to treat disease. More...

From The Boston Globe: Children's zeroes in on its costs

The Boston Globe reports on the actions taken by Children's Hospital Boston to reduce its fees to private insurers and to Medicaid-managed care programs by $90 million over the last year and a half. More...

Gene Therapy Trial for "Bubble Boy" Syndrome

A new gene therapy trial for X-linked  severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID-X1), the disease popularly known as "bubble boy syndrome," is now accepting patients. The international trial, one of several gene therapy trials being developed at Children's Hospital Boston, is the first to be given the green light by the FDA for SCID-X1 since 2005, since five children developed leukemia after being treated in Paris and London. More...

Best places to work in academia

Children's Hospital Boston has been named among the Best Places to Work in Academia by The Scientist magazine. Results of the 2010 annual survey announced on June 29th rank Children's #7 among U.S. institutions.  More...

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AASM names Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders a Program of Distinction

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) has named Children's Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders as one of their Comprehensive Academic Sleep Programs of Distinction -- an honor recognizing programs that have made major strides toward becoming independent, interdisciplinary units outside of traditional divisions or departments. The Center at Children's is only the fifth institution in the U.S. to receive this recognition.

The AASM grants this five-year recognition to academic sleep programs that have demonstrated excellence though compliance with rigorous standards in the areas of clinical service, educational mission and research accomplishments.