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Bloomberg Law, September 07, 2021: Medicare Health Quality Measures Get Closer Look in Pandemic
This article focuses on changes in health quality measures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and explores whether they should be made permanent. IHI's President and CEO Kedar Mate discusses the importance of evaluating quality measures through an equity lens and what matters to the patient.
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HealthLeaders, August 18, 2021: Health Equity Top Priority for Leader of Institute for Healthcare Improvement
This is in an in-depth interview with President and CEO Kedar Mate covering a range of topics, including his career trajectory, his passion for IHI's work, and his commitment to health equity.
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Psychology Today, August 12, 2021: Understanding the Needs of Your Parents as They Age
This article discusses how to care for your parents as they age and includes tips and resources from IHI's The Conversation Project.
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WebMD, July 26, 2021: Study Identifies Racial Differences in Patient Safety in Hospitals
This article reports on an Urban Institute Study about patient safety disparieties based on race and includes quotes from IHI Senior Director Shannon Welch.
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Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, July 09, 2021: Supporting the At-Home Care Team
This article discusses how at-home caregivers can find support and tools for caring for older adults, including IHI's 4Ms framework.
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Kaiser Health News, June 28, 2021: Covid’s Lingering Effects Can Put the Brakes on Elective Surgeries
This article includes quotes from IHI Senior Fellow and Chief Scientific Officer Emeritus Don Goldmann about elective surgery for people who have suffered from COVID-19.
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AMA, June 11, 2021: Why Inequity Should be Treated as an Unwanted Variation in Care
This article reports on a panel discussion hosted by AMA, which included IHI's President and CEO Kedar Mate, about using quality improvement methods to address health equity.
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Healthcare Executive Podcast, June 02, 2021: Addressing Institutional Racism in Healthcare Organizations
This podcast features Ron Wyatt, MD, and Laura Botwinick, who are co-authors of IHI's Achieving Health Equity white paper, dicussing the ongoing challenges in rooting out systemic racism in healthcare.
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May 11, 2021: IHI’s Patient Safety Congress Examines Virtual Care, Racism and Workplace Violence
This article summarizes what to expect at IHI's Patient Safety Congress and also mentions the National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety.
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Healthcare Finance, May 06, 2021: CEO Coalition Commits to Physical, Psychological and Emotional Workplace Safety
This article focuses on the new CEO Coalition, which was co-founded by 10 hospital and health system CEOs who have joined forces and created a Declaration of Principles to protect their healthcare workforce.
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Kaiser Health News, April 27, 2021: Pandemic Imperiled Non-English Speakers More Than Others
IHI's President and CEO Kedar Mate is quoted in this article that focuses on health inequities that have harmed non-English speakers hospitalized for COVID-19. It is based on data and anecdotes from Mass General Brigham, which is part of IHI's Pursuing Equity initiative.
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Next Avenue, April 16, 2021: Advance Care Planning - A Gift You Give Yourself and Your Loved Ones
This article focuses on end-of-life care and includes quotes and resources from IHI's Kate DeBartolo, Senior Director of The Conversation Project.
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Repertoire, April 08, 2021: What Matters
This article focuses on Age-Friendly Health Systems and the 4Ms framework, and includes commentary from IHI's Alice Bonner.
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MacArthur Foundation, April 07, 2021: Community Solutions Awarded $100 Million to End Homelessness
This press release announces that IHI Strategic Parner Community Solutions was awarded $100 million grant to accelerate and scale its public health approach to ending homelessness.
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The Washington Post, April 05, 2021: The Health Care Industry Doesn't Want to Talk About this Single Word
In this op-ed, Dr. Ron Wyatt cites racism as a public health crisis that needs to be named and addressed.
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Provider, April 01, 2021: Teamwork Carries the Day During Pandemic
This article highlights how care givers in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities have gone above and beyond their traditional jobs to improve care throughout the pandemic.
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Public Health Newswire, March 25, 2021: 100 Million Healthier Lives Provides Framework for Change
This article, published by the American Public Health Association (APHA), details the lessons learned and success stories from IHI's 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative.
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The Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2021: Fast-Forward Look Into Your Future Review, Artificially Expedited Aging
This is a review of a PBS documentary about getting older and what families can do now to prepare for end-of-life care.
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Health Affairs Blog, March 19, 2021: Equity Metrics Should Be an Essential Component of Hospital Rankings
This is a great article about addressing inequities in health care and associated metrics, citing IHI White Paper Achieving Health Equity.
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American College of Healthcare Executives Blog, March 16, 2021: Vaccines Alone Won't Solve the Problem of Healthcare Worker Safety
This blog discusses the need for a total systems approach to workforce safety in order to achieve meaningful progress and eliminate harm to patients and those who care for them.
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Minority Nurse, March 14, 2021: Patient Safety Awareness Week Highlights Critical Need
This article about Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW) highlights the need for nurses to improve safety in clinical settings, referencing IHI's Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit as a resource.
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Health Payer Intelligence, March 09, 2021: How Payers Can Take Action Against Racial Care Disparities
IHI's CEO Kedar Mate offers commentary on steps that the payer industry can take to eliminate racial disparities in their communities and companies.
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Healthcare Strategies, March 09, 2021: Eliminating Racial Healthcare Disparities in the Payer Industry
This podcast features IHI's CEO Kedar Mate and Mark Friedberg, Senior VP at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, discussing steps the payer community can take to eliminate racial disparities in their communities and companies.
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KevinMD, March 05, 2021: Lessons on Effective Knowledge Networks to Support Pandemic Response
This article by IHI authors reflects on many years of studying how health systems can learn and improve as fast as possible, what they know about learning networks, and asking themselves what is durable from their prior experience and what is new. They are inspired by the largely spontaneous and deeply collegial collaborations among the health care workforce around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Hospital Case Management, March 03, 2021: Leaders Plot How They Will Leverage the Lessons of COVID-19
Health care leaders are considering how they will use the lessons of COVID-19 pandemic to make their health systems better, and several shared their ideas during the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s annual Forum in December 2020.
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Medscape, March 03, 2021: The "Awful but Necessary Distance" of COVID-19
This piece in the COVID Conversations series with Dr. Lloyd Sederer features Don Berwick, MD, IHI President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, and Esther Choo, MD, an emergency physician and professor at Oregon Health and Science University, discussing how health care workers are affected by COVID-19 at home and with their families.
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CNN, February 25, 2021: Lack of Equity Within Priority Groups Leaves COVID-19's Most Vulnerable Without Vaccine
This article explores COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the US and its impact on equity, and includes remarks from Kedar Mate, MD, President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
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Health Affairs Blog, February 19, 2021: Envisioning the Future of Complex Care
Kedar Mate, MD, President and CEO of IHI, and Allison Hamblin, MSPH, President and CEO at the Center for Health Care Strategies, share their top 10 predictions for the future of complex care in the US.
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American Journal of Managed Care, February 18, 2021: Use of COTA Nodal Address Highlights Variance in Cancer Care Cost: An Interview with Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP
In this interview, Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, discusses cost variation in cancer care found through the digital classification system the COTA Nodal Address.
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Medscape, February 08, 2021: The Unique Mental Stressors of COVID-19's Second Wave
Don Berwick, MD, IHI President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, discusses health care workforce health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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WBUR Common Health, January 29, 2021: With Latinos Dying at Higher Rates from COVID, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Intervenes
This segment describes how Boston's Brighan and Women's Hospital is looking at data to identify inequities in care, including during the COVID pandemic. Brigham’s work on health disparities comes, in part, out of a collaboration with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) that included a focus on gathering and analyzing data.
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Health Affairs Blog, January 14, 2021: Incorporating Health Equity into an Initiative to Transform Care for Older Adults
This piece takes a closer look at efforts to address equity in health care, including the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, led by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, that is incorporating equity into outcome measures to deliver equitable care to older adults.
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The New York Times, December 31, 2020: This Is Why Nursing Homes Failed So Badly
This Opinion piece takes a look at the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing homes across the US and includes comments by IHI's Alice Bonner, a key advisor on the care of older adults for the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative.
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The New York Times, December 21, 2020: Should I Have Elective Surgery in the Pandemic?
This New York Times article looks at elective surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic, referencing a recent Harvard Business Review article ("How to Safely Restart Elective Surgeries After a COVID Spike") co-authored by IHI CEO Dr. Kedar Mate, which notes that 'basic human factors, exacerbated by COVID-19, can threaten the safety of patients and staff."
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Morning Consult, December 16, 2020: COVID-19 Sped Up the Transition to Digital Medicine: The Health Industry Says There’s No Turning Back
In this article that looks ahead to the health care industry in 2021, IHI CEO Dr. Kedar Mate offers comments on telehealth and digital health expansion.
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HealthLeaders Media, December 10, 2020: IHI Forum 2020: Three Big Ideas
This year's Institute for Healthcare Improvement Forum covered a range of topics, including quality improvement, health equity, population heath, patient safety, joy in work, and telemedicine. Here are some key takeaways and three big ideas.
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Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare, December 08, 2020: IHI CEO Emphasizes Need for "Curb Cut Solutions" to Patient Safety Issues
In his keynote address at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Forum, IHI CEO Kedar Mate, MD, urged attendees to look for patient safety solutions that not only help marginalized populations but benefit the public at large.
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Becker's Hospital Review, October 30, 2020: Under the Cover of COVID-19 News, the Epidemic of Opioid Overdoses Silently Surges
While the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered health systems’ priorities, a parallel public health emergency — the national epidemic of opioid-related morbidity and mortality — has continued unabated, with almost 450,000 opioid overdose-related deaths from 1999-2018.
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FierceHealthcare, October 29, 2020: 3 Lessons High-Reliability Organizations Can Teach Us During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dr. Kedar Mate, IHI President and CEO, shares how some health care systems that have previously committed to becoming high-reliability organizations (HROs) have been better equipped to more quickly adapt amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Becker's Hospital Review, October 26, 2020: The Path to Zero Harm: How to Create a Culture of Safety in the OR
In a Oct. 20 webinar hosted by Becker's Hospital Review and sponsored by Stryker, industry leaders discussed the leadership values and management tools necessary to transform ORs into high-reliability systems. Presenters included IHI's Jessica Perlo and Frank Federico.
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GhanaWeb, October 16, 2020: Ghana’s Sodzi-Tettey Becomes First African to Serve on Board of International Society for Quality in Healthcare
Dr Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey, Executive Director and Head of the Africa Region of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), has been elected to serve on the prestigious International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua).
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Relias Media, October 09, 2020: Healthcare Workers Holding the Line Against Pandemic: But at What Long-Term Mental Cost?
Health care workers may pay a mental health price for the COVID-19 pandemic, a “moral injury” not unlike soldiers returning from war, mental health experts warn. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is addressing these current and looming issues through a series of webinars and papers on “psychological PPE (personal protective equipment).”
