Institute for Healthcare Improvement: 21st Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care

Continuing Education

In order to be eligible for a continuing education certificate, attendees must complete the online evaluation within 30 days of the continuing education activity. After this period, you will be unable to receive a certificate. For details, please review these instructions for obtaining your continuing education credits. Continuing education credits will not be awarded for non-educational activities, including (but not limited to) meals, breaks and receptions.

Participants in the 21st Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care will learn how to:

Recognize habits that support good care and apply the basic principles for improving them.
Define ways to reduce suffering and improve health.
Develop an understanding of how to transform an organization.
Identify elements for creating a culture of change that will lead to continuous improvement.

This Institute for Healthcare Improvement activity carries the following types of continuing education credits:

Continuing Medical Education for Physicians

Nurse Continuing Education Credits

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

IHI designates this educational activity for a maximum of 19.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Full Program Total: 19.25 credit hours

General Conference: 10.25 credit hours
Learning Labs: 3 credit hours
Minicourses: 6 credit hours

Institute for Healthcare Improvement is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This continuing education activity carries 19.25 Contact Hours.

*All RN licensing boards nationwide acknowledge and accept contact hours from accredited providers. The California Board of Registered Nursing recognizes Category 1 Continuing Medical Education credits, and California nurses can use participation at these events, which are approved for CME Category 1 Credits, towards their license renewal, regardless of whether or not they were held on California soil. In the section where California nurses are asked to provide a BRN number, please indicate that the IHI event attended was approved for Category 1 CME credits. For further inquiries, the California Board of Registered Nursing is in Sacramento, and their number is 916-322-3350.

Continuing Education for Pharmacists

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

IHI designates this educational activity for a maximum of 19.25 contact hours for participation in the program. The Universal Program Number for this activity is: 822-000-08-001-L05-P. Pharmacists should only claim contact hours commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Full Program Total: 19.25 credit hours

General Conference: 10.25 credit hours
Learning Labs: 3 credit hours
Minicourses: 6 credit hours

The sessions listed below are not elligible for pharmacy continuing education credits.

Learning Labs

L5: Engaging Philanthropic Organizations as Improvement Partners
L9: Establishing an Intensivist Service-What You Need
L19: Achieving Equity: Utilizing Language Services, Indirect Estimates of Race and Ethnicity to Evaluate Clinical Quality
L20: Understanding, Measuring, and Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings
L21: Reliability Strategies in Outpatient Settings
L22: Structure and Process: Improving Perinatal Outcome

Minicourses

M2: Implementing Early Activity for ICU Patients
M13: Saving Money, Changing Minds: Internal QI Training as a Vehicle for Organizational Change

A/B Sessions

A3/B3: Diagnosing and Treating Your Emergency Department’s Operational Ills
A4/B4: Quality and Efficiency for the Last Phase of Life
A18/B18: The Business Case for Quality: A Primary Care Focus
A19/B19: Joy, Time Off, and Better Health Care with Group Visits
A21/B21: Changing How Nurses Spend Their Time: Effects on Quality, Safety, and Nurse Retention

C Sessions

C10: Shared Decision Making and the Triple Aim
C19: Creating a Connected Patient Experience Across the Continuum

D/E Sessions

D4/E4 Implementing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist: Learning from US and International Experiences
D10/E10: Measuring Population Health in Health Systems: Case Studies from IHI’s Triple Aim
D19/E19: Primary Care Renewal: Spreading Medical Homes
D21/E21: Patient Navigators: Resources for the Medically Underserved
E1: Quality Innovation in Nursing