
The health and well-being of our most vulnerable of children, especially developing children and children with complex health care needs, are sentinel indicators of the effectiveness of the systems on which they depend. The latest issue of the Pediatrics supplement: “Building Systems that Work for Children with Complex Health Care Needs,” sponsored by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, helps to clarify some of the difficult, systemic issues and challenges affecting health care for these children, and point the way toward their resolution.