Supporting Children's Hospitals and Children's Health: The Role of the Federal "CHGME" Program
September 2006
National Association of Children's Hospitals
The Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Program provides independent children’s teaching hospitals with equitable federal GME funding, enabling them to continue and expand their services dedicated to children’s unique health care needs, as well as to sustain and strengthen their teaching programs. Like their adult counterparts, independent children’s teaching hospitals leverage GME program funding to provide significant value to the patients and communities they serve. This report highlights these benefits across the following key hospital missions: graduate medical education and training; complex, high quality clinical care for all children; cutting edge pediatric research; and community benefits and rural outreach.