title: Children's hospitals: specialty hospitals that treat children specially.
abstract: Any reader who has children will agree that they make special patients, whether at home or in the hospital. These patients have unique requirements for love and compassionate care, and children's hospitals deliver on their promises. The well-run children's hospitals researched for this article have converted their material management operational challenges to opportunities. They have built thoughtful material management strategic plans, reorganized their support services to provide customer service to end users, and they have centered their materiel management efforts around service and quality improvement.
authors: Baxter Healthcare Corporation, McGaw Park, IL.
authors: K L
authors: KL
authors: Siebecker
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006272:Health Facility Environment / Q000592:standards; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States