Welcoming a New Era at IHI

Maureen Bisognano has been named IHI’s new President and CEO as Don Berwick joins the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as its new Administrator.

• Read a press release and statements from IHI leaders.
• View selected media coverage.

IHI is a small organization with a very big mission. We welcome anyone who is committed to improving patient care to get involved in our work.

• Updates and three new key processes have just been added to the Improvement Map (including Essential Care for Frail Older Patients).

• Join Passport and get access to every IHI Expedition for a year, including Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections.

In the Spotlight

• A Commonwealth Fund case study series highlights three organizations that are transforming care as part of IHI's Triple Aim initiative.

• Breakthrough improvements in Ghana are increasing odds of newborn survival. Read a press release about the progress.

• In a new article, IHI's Frank Federico says that bar coding will only work as well as it is implemented.

• A new tool from IHI's work in South Africa helps calculate the number of patients who need HIV/AIDS treatment and care.

• 100,000 Homes by 2013: IHI gets behind a new, national initiative to house the chronically homeless.

• Learn more about IHI Senior Fellows, who play a key role in IHI strategic development and planning in many areas.

• IHI Innovation Series White Paper: Reducing Costs Through the Appropriate Use of Specialty Services

• In the News: Selected weekly health care news items.

IHI Strategic Initiatives

• Appropriate Use of Specialty Care Services
• Developing Countries (South Africa, Malawi, and Ghana)
• How Will We Do That? Low-Cost, High-Quality Health Care
• Improving Patient Care Program (Indian Health Service)
• Reducing Avoidable ED Visits
• Safer Patients Network (UK)
• Scottish Patient Safety Programme
• STate Action on Avoidable Rehospitalizations (STAAR)
• Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)
• Triple Aim™