Special Fall Harvest Campaign LIVE!

Join a special Campaign LIVE! on Wednesday, November 7 from 4:00 – 5:00 PM Eastern Time to learn what we learned on the Campaign’s Fall Harvest. IHI staff, members of the Campaign team, and health leaders and experts began our visits to a hospital in every state and the District of Columbia on October 24. At every stop, we’ve come away with new tools, innovative approaches to mobilizing staff on behalf of improvement, and many, many examples of notable progress and results across all 12 interventions in the 5 Million Lives Campaign. This is just the first wave of our efforts to tap the energy and gather up evidence of Campaign participants’ commitment to better patient care. We plan more visits and more ‘harvests’ in the near term.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
4:00 – 5:00 PM Eastern Time

*Call-in information*

Dial:  800-860-2442
No PIN code is required.  Please ask the operator to connect you to Campaign LIVE!

Share your success story! As we head toward the first-year milestone of the 5 Million Lives Campaign, we are intensifying our efforts to learn from high-performing facilities and share what we discover with the entire Campaign community. If you have a success story, let others know about it!  Please contact us at Campaign@ihi.org. 

Tell us about your medication reconciliation success!  As part of the Fall Harvest, we’re excited to announce the first IHI Innovation Challenge: Medication Reconciliation. If you’re a Campaign hospital that has been able to successfully implement a sustainable medication reconciliation program, please tell us how you did it. We’d also love to hear from anyone with a fresh idea about how to tackle many of the thorny issues presented by medication reconciliation.

Three winners in two categories, picked by a panel of experts, will be announced at the IHI National Forum in December. Outstanding innovations from all submitting teams will be compiled into a resource that will be presented publicly early next year so that all Campaign hospitals might benefit.

The deadline for submissions is Monday, November 26, 2007 at 9:00 AM Eastern Time, so download the rules and entry form to get started.

If you have any questions, please email campaign@ihi.org with the subject line “medication reconciliation challenge.”

Have you gotten to zero?  Based on our site visits and progress reports from Campaign hospitals, we believe a significant number of hospitals may have achieved zero central line infections and even zero pressure ulcers for months or years at a time.

To capture this progress, we’ve created two new online surveys, available to all Campaign hospitals, that ask about “getting to zero” central line infections and pressure ulcers. Here are the links:

Central line infections

Pressure ulcers

If you’ve been able to “get to zero” in either of these areas, please complete the appropriate survey (it should take no more than 10 minutes) to let us know about your good work. To allow us enough time to have your results ready for the IHI National Forum in December, please complete the survey by Monday, November 26, 2007 9:00 AM Eastern Time.

If you have any questions, please email Campaign@ihi.org.