Getting Started Kit
Updated How-to Guide with instructions for implementing the change in your organization, including changes and measures. (includes bibliography)
Introductory PowerPoint Presentation to introduce and explain the intervention in your organization.
Mentor Hospitals
The organizations on the Mentor Hospital Registry have volunteered to provide support, advice, clinical expertise, and tips to hospitals seeking help with their implementation efforts.
Get Boards on Board Mentor Hospitals
On Demand Presentation
Jim Conway, IHI Senior Vice President, clearly outlines the steps necessary to “get boards on board,” including how to set powerful aims, build the foundation, build will, and drive execution.
Engaging Hospital Boards in Quality and Safety
Tools
Tools for hospitals working to get their boards on board.
Reducing Harm to Patients: Using Patient Safety Dashboards at the Board Level
Boards, Dashboards, and Data PowerPoint
Guidelines for Using Patient Stories with Boards of Directors
Move Your Dot™: Measuring, Evaluating, and Reducing Hospital Mortality Rates (Part 1)
Reducing Hospital Mortality Rates (Part 2)
Whole System Measures Tool Kit (IHI Tool)
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Principles of a Fair and Just Culture
So, What's on Your Dashboard PowerPoint presentation from the 2006 IHI National Forum
Providence Health & Services 7 Key Governance Questions PowerPoint
Measurement Information Forms
Detailed information on the process and outcome measures outlined in the How-to Guide.
Rate of Medical Harm per 100 Admissions
Rate of Medical Harm per 1000 Patient Days
Resources
Other resources available to help your quality improvement efforts.
Risk Management Reporter, August 2008 -- Incentives for patient safety: Holding healthcare executives accountable (including suggestions for how to decide what patient safety and quality issues to measure)
Journal of Patient Safety, March 2006 -- Leaders need dashboards, dashboards need leaders
Journal of Patient Safety, March 2006 -- Engagement of leadership in quality improvement initiatives: Executive quality improvement survey results
Journal of Patient Safety, March 2006 -- Hospital boards and quality dashboards
Engaging physicians: How the team can incorporate quality and safety
Getting boards on board: Engaging governing boards in quality and safety published in the Joint Commission Journal as part of a series on the six new interventions in the Campaign.
Board Engagement in Quality: Findings of a Survey of Hospital and System Leaders, an article from the Journal of Healthcare Management
Healthcare Executive, March/April 2008 -- Leadership's role in execution
Healthcare Executive, Jan/Feb 2008 -- Patients and Families: Powerful new partners for healthcare and for caregivers (about hospital boards engaging with patients and patient stories)
Health Executive, December 2007 -- We want you on board
Engaging Physicians in a Shared Quality Agenda - IHI White Paper
Join a get boards on board web discussion
Great Boards, Summer 2007 -- IHI calls on boards to lead on quality and safety
AHRQ Morbidity & Mortality Rounds on the Web, July/August 2007 -- In conversation with . . . James L. Reinertsen, MD
Improvement Stories
Read improvement stories and learn how others have succeeded in getting their boards on board.
Board engagement with quality and safety
Getting the Board on Board
Call Recordings
Recordings of Campaign calls on getting boards on board.
February 14, 2007 - Introduction
Companion Slide Set for the Introduction call
April 19, 2007 - Office Hour
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center - Cincinnati, OH
October 4, 2007 - Office Hour
Virginia Mason Medical Center - Seattle, WA
January 31, 2008 - Rural Hospital Primary on Getting Boards on Board - New London Hospital - New London, NH
Materials: Jim Conway Slides (PDF), New London Hospital Slides (PDF)
April 7, 2008 - Campaign LIVE!
Raising the bar on board engagement
May 22, 2008 - Office Hour
Henry Ford Hospital - Detroit, MI
National Action Day Materials
On June 20, 2007, over 35,000 participants focused their attention on getting results faster and more reliably. Materials used during the Prevent Pressure Ulcers session are available for download.
Get Boards on Board Session Recording
Delnor-Community Hospital - Geneva, IL
PPT Slides, Slides as Handouts
Contact
For more information contact:
James Conway, MS
Email: jconway@ihi.org
Phone: (617) 301-4882
