4/2/2020
By James Nataro, Karin Skeen, and Billy Petersen We write this piece at an extraordinary time for the UVA Children’s Hospital. After several “false starts” surrounding potential pandemics, from SARS…
Clinical Strategic Planning Process: The Basics
2/12/2020
This spring the UVA Children's Hospital will be conducting a formal clinical strategic planning process. This differs from other recent strategic planning efforts in that we will engage an external…
Take Action with Implicit Bias
5/31/2019
How We Can Lead the Way in Quality Improvement by Karin Skeen As we care for an increasingly complex group of patients in an increasingly complex system of health care…
Creating a Healing Environment
5/11/2018
What does a bronze rabbit, a miniature CAT scan, and amazing artwork have in common? They are all parts of the healing environment at UVA Children’s Hospital. Caring for children’s…
10/19/2017
As you all know, professionalism is one of the key ASPIRE values of the Health System. Professionalism is one of those qualities that we all admire, and that we demand…
12/21/2016
We are all well aware that the University of Virginia Health System is in the midst of what is called a “Lean Transformation”, a restructuring of our organization to reduce…
7/19/2016
Any organization as large as our Children’s Hospital requires a complex governance structure. Over the past three years we have been moving to a values driven leadership system (VDLS). Our…
3/10/2016
As we settle into 2016 it’s a good time to pause and consider what we truly want to accomplish as a team this year. We have much to be proud…
Together In the Service of Children
11/13/2015
As I entered the Battle Building the other day, I stopped to look at the beautiful art, and I thought: we work within the University of Virginia Children's Hospital, the…
Kids Matter Newsletter: New and Improved
9/1/2015
By Karin League, MSN, RN, NEA-BC and James Nataro, MD, PhD, MBA, FAAP Welcome to the new integrated version of Kids Matter. We are very excited to share with you…