Children’s Health remains a financially strong, fiscally responsible organization, despite the many challenges in our nation’s health care system, including changing standards for
reimbursement. As an acknowledgment of
our financial strength, Moody’s Investor Service gives Children’s Health a top rating, which is
based on finances as well as on a number of other factors, including governance.
Financial performance matters, but what matters most is making life better for children. Sometimes, it takes speaking up in order to ensure that the health of our children
is supported as a matter of public policy. That can mean citizen advocacy, as was
undertaken by six-year-old Sydney Mayrell,
a Children’s Health patient, who accompanied other concerned citizens on a Legislative
Advocacy Trip to Washington, D.C., in 2013. Encouraging our nation’s legislators to support children’s health programs,
Sydney went to Washington as part of
Speak Now for Kids Family Advocacy Day.
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