MIAMI -- Jackie Gonzalez, MSN, ARNP, FAAN, Senior Vice President of Patient Care and Chief Nursing Officer at Miami Children’s Hospital, has been appointed to the Management Information Services (MIS) Council for the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI).

The MIS Council offers a variety of data programs and analytical services to support improvements in operations for individual hospitals and influences policy decisions for children’s healthcare.

NACHRI represents more than 140 freestanding acute care children’s hospitals, freestanding children’s rehabilitation and specialty hospitals, and children’s hospitals organized within larger medical centers. It addresses public policy issues affecting children’s hospitals’ missions of service to the children of their communities, including clinical care, education, research and advocacy. For more information, please visit www.childrenshospitals.net.

About Miami Children’s Hospital
Founded in 1950 by Variety Clubs International, Miami Children's Hospital® is South Florida’s only licensed specialty hospital exclusively for children, with more than 650 attending physicians and over 130 pediatric sub-specialists. The 289-bed hospital is renowned for excellence in all aspects of pediatric medicine and has programs that are routinely ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. The hospital is also home to the largest pediatric teaching program in the southeastern United States and has been designated an American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet facility, the nursing profession’s most prestigious institutional honor.