Dear ED Leaders and Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinators,
Please be on the look out for an email in the next few days about the launch of the 2026 National Pediatric Readiness Assessment on March 3rd. The assessment closes on May 31st.
If you believe you are the person that should have received this email tomorrow or in the next week, please start asking around for who might have received it. Look in your spam folders. Check with the ED Nurse Manager/Director, your ED Medical Director, your Trauma Program Manager, or your CNO/CEO. Find out who got that reminder, and let them know you, or who, in your organization, is the appropriate person to do be completing the assessment.
Remember, Only one person can open the assessment in the portal for each hospital. On March 3rd, go to the Peds Ready website and print the .pdf of the assessment and start gathering your data. If you are the person who will complete the assessment, go ahead an open your hospital's portal so that no one else can do that. If your hospital name is "grayed out," someone else has opened the hospital portal. Find out who that was, and get permission to take over completion of the assessment or direct it to the right person. Here is the link to the website. Pediatric Readiness Assessment - Home Page
Once you open the website, the link to the .pdf is right on the home page. You may need to gather information from several people. If you're the right person, and you're ready to open your hospital's assessment, click on "Lets Get Started," find your State, then your County and your hospital. Clicking on the hospital link will start the assessment. If you aren't the person to complete the assessment, don't open it. If you open the assessment, you are now the only person who can return to the hospital's assessment and complete it. Make sure that is done before May 31st.
No matter when you last did an assessment, NO ONE has done this one. This assessment is NEW! Every ED should do this assessment between March 3rd and May 31. This data set will determine the current state of Pediatric Readiness in U.S. hospitals and drive research data that will tell us more about how Pediatric Readiness scores are linked to patient outcomes.
Thank you for your commitment to Pediatric Readiness and improving pediatric emergency care across our county and around the world.
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Sally K. Snow, BSN, RN, CPEN, FAEN
Pediatric Trauma and Emergency Nursing Consultant,
Texas Pediatric Readiness Improvement Project Manager
817-996-1690
sallyksnow@yahoo.com------------------------------