Definition: Estimated percentage of children ages 0-17 with special health care needs (CSHCN) admitted to a hospital overnight in the previous 12 months, by race/ethnicity (e.g., in 2024, 7.4% of Hispanic/Latino CSHCN in California had an overnight hospital stay in the previous year).
Data Source: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Survey of Children's Health (Nov. 2025).
Footnote: Race/ethnicity categories are mutually exclusive. Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally. These estimates are based on a survey of the population and are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. The notation S refers to estimates that have been suppressed because (a) there were fewer than 3 respondents in that group, (b) there were fewer than 20 total respondents and all were in the same group, or (c) the margin of error for the estimate is 10 percentage points or greater. For more information, see https://www.childhealthdata.org/learn-about-the-nsch/NSCH.
