Judith Gooding has joined NICHQ as the Chief Operating Officer and Katherine Flaherty, ScD, has been named Vice President of Development. Both bring extensive health and healthcare management experience to help lead NICHQ into its future.

Leadership support is a necessary foundation to any change effort. Melanie Mouzoon, MD, knows that well. After getting leadership buy-in at her hospital, her team was able to increase the hospital's exclusive breastfeeding rate 300 percent. Here's how she did it. 

With America's infant mortality rate almost three times higher than other industrialized countries and low-income families affected most significantly, a growing number of states are using Medicaid data to spot trends in maternal and child health outcomes.

For many, the first time a parent thinks about possible problems with their child's vision is when they get a vision referral letter from school. More needs to be done to make sure parents and providers understand the importance of vision health as the child develops. 

Studies show that parents model the behaviors of nurses that care for their babies in the hospital. Since pre-term infants are at a distinct risk for sleep-related infant mortality, a new focus has been put on improving safe sleep practices in neonatal intensive care units.