Kids' Hospital Feedback Survey Gets Routine Renewal Nod
Published Date: 12/17/2025
Notice
Summary
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality wants to keep collecting feedback from kids and their parents about hospital stays using the Child HCAHPS survey. They’re asking for approval to continue this without any changes and are inviting the public to share thoughts by January 16, 2026. This helps hospitals improve care for children without adding extra costs or paperwork.
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3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Hospitals Face Data Submission Burden
Hospitals and the survey vendors that submit Child HCAHPS data must register, sign a Data Use Agreement, complete a hospital information form, and upload one data file per hospital. AHRQ estimates this submission work requires 61 hours total per year across about 50 hospitals and 4 vendors, and an annualized cost burden of $6,801.
Public Child Hospital Experience Data Released
AHRQ will make aggregated Child HCAHPS results publicly available on its CAHPS website and will compile a Chartbook showing summary scores by hospital characteristics. You (parents or guardians of children under 18) can use those public summaries to see how pediatric hospitals perform and to compare care across regions.
Submitting Hospitals Get Private Feedback Reports
Hospitals that submit Child HCAHPS data will get a customized private Hospital Feedback Report showing their results alongside the database overall and a summary-level Chartbook broken out by region, hospital size, ownership, and affiliation. AHRQ also provides technical assistance at no charge to help hospitals access, submit, and use the data for quality improvement.
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