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Hartwell CL. 2010. The many faces of America's children's hospitals: Spotlight on children's hospitals within hospitals. Philadelphia, PA: Health Strategies and Solutions, 16 pp.

Annotation: This white paper provides information about different types of children's hospitals and discusses the pros and cons of children's hospitals within general hospitals vs. freestanding children's hospitals. The paper discusses the pressure to choose which type of hospital to develop, children's hospital within a hospital genres, selecting an appropriate children's hospital genre, what every children's hospital must have, the four genres (freestanding look-alike, neonatal intensive care unit-centric, system consolidator, and community hospital) and the outlook for children's hospitals within hospitals.

Keywords: Child health, Costs, Hospitals, Infant health, Neonatal intensive care units, Financing, Public policy

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