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• Consumer Reports, November 21, 2013: Hospitals Speak Out on Rankings
  Consumer Reports summarizes responses to the publication’s first-ever surgery ratings; quotes Jeff Selberg on the importance of involving patients in hospital safety issues and of ratings in general, even if imperfect.
• Harvard Business Review , November 15, 2013: The Big Barrier to High Value Care
  Lindsay Martin, Don Berwick and Tom Nolan discuss how destructive self-interest is the big barrier to high-value health care; the piece outlines four changes insurers, providers, employers, and unions must seek in order to get on the pathway to lower total costs with better outcomes, mentioning IHI’s Triple Aim in the first recommended change, “Establish Common Goals.”
• Harvard Business Review , November 06, 2013: Constraints on Health Care Budgets Can Drive Quality
  Derek Feeley describes how constraints on health care budgets can drive quality, discussing his experience and insights from work in Scotland; piece notes Scotland put IHI’s Triple Aim framework at the heart of its system, and outlines keys to improvement success related to population health, community partnerships, primary care delivery, and patient safety.
• San Francisco Business Times, September 18, 2013: Soon-to-retire California HealthCare Foundation head Mark Smith joins IHI board
  Dr. Mark Smith, longtime president and CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation, has joined IHI’s board of directors; article states, “IHI is one of the best-known health improvement organizations in the nation, and many of the concepts developed there made their way into the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare …”
• Daily Graphic, September 16, 2013: Preparations During Pregnacy in a Rural Setting
  Progress made by the Project Fives Alive! initiative to develop a Birth Preparedness Plan (BPP) protocol and test it in several local districts; story highlights one woman’s successful pregnancy and delivery through the BPP checklist program and mentions IHI’s role as a partner in Project Fives Alive!
• Holyrood , September 10, 2013: Derek Feeley on New Challenges
  IHI's new Executive Vice President, Derek Feeley, discusses the importance of patient safety and holding your nerve.
• Health Affairs , September 09, 2013: Measuring Readmissions For Improvement, Accountability, And Patients
  IHI's Saranya Loehrer and Doug McCarthy describe how measurement and improvement that will point the way forward toward for reducing readmissions.
• Boston.com, August 29, 2013: Parsing the Berwick Report on the British National Health Service
  Renowned health care economist John McDonough reports on the recent NHS report, focusing on why anyone should care “on this side of the pond."
• Healthcare IT News, August 28, 2013: Beacon's Bold Experiment
  IHI's Carol Beasley assesses the Beacon Community Program and how she sees “Beaconville” as a place where priorities are driven by the community, where improvement of care is continuous, and infrastructure is strong.
• KTVZ Oregon , August 16, 2013: St. Charles forms partnership to boost care
  St. Charles Health System and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement announced Monday they have formed a strategic partnership to improve health and health care in Central Oregon.
• OutpatientSurgery.net, August 14, 2013: A Better Bath: 3 Days of CHG Application
  How we prevented SSIs with a pre-op bathing and wipe regimen for our hip and knee patients.
• The Independent, August 09, 2013: Berwick Report: Danger of Understaffed NHS Wards Can No Longer Be Ignored
  The danger of understaffed NHS wards can no longer be ignored, the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt was warned, as another high profile figure review highlighted the urgent need for clear rules on safe staffing levels.
• The Health Care Blog, August 08, 2013: No Criminal Charges for Providers Won't Fix the NHS, Berwick says.
  One of US President Barack Obama’s key health advisers has just published a review in the aftermath of the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal. Don Berwick’s review is both thoughtful and reflective but one of his key recommendations – to create criminal sanctions against health staff – will not make the NHS safer for patients.
• BBC Health , August 07, 2013: Patient safety 'must be top priority in NHS'
  Patient safety must become the top priority in the NHS in England, according to a major review.
• The Guardian , August 06, 2013: NHS blame games must end, says US patient safety expert
  Don Berwick says in his report that leaders must stop blaming NHS staff and instead foster a more positive culture
• July 31, 2013: AORN Journal - Ensuring Safe Use of Medical Devices
  AORN Journal article on medical device safety quotes IHI's Frank Federico extensively, including his recommendations for device selection, ongoing/regular usability testing, and establishing a system for reporting adverse events, among other topics.
• Healthcare Financial Management Association Magazine, July 25, 2013: HFMA - Rising to the Challenge: An Interview With Don Berwick
  HAVING EXAMINED AMERICA’S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN HIS ROLE AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, ONE OF THE NATION’S FOREMOST HEALTHCARE QUALITY EXPERTS PRESCRIBES OPTIMISM AND INNOVATION TO CURE THE PROBLEMS AT HAND.
• KSAT.com, July 03, 2013: Project JOINTS Swiping Away Surgical Infections
  IHI's Project JOINTS helps hospitals in the San Antonio region cut down on surgical site infections.
• The Huffington Post, July 03, 2013: How to Save 1,000 Newborn Lives?
  IHI's Dr. Pierre Barker outlines how the IHI and partners in Malawi have been making pregnancy and childbirth safe for mothers and their children.
• Hospitals & Health Networks, June 17, 2013: Hospitals & Health Networks: New Ways to Staff a Hospital
  IHI's Trissa Torres speaks to potential increases in hospital staffs, saying she sees “much more the redeploying than the adding of staff,” commenting on how hospital clinicians need to be trained to “listen to the patient’s agenda and not promote their own agenda.”
• Huffington Post, June 10, 2013: Huffington Post - How Safe Are You On That Long Distance Flight?
  A new blog post by Pierre Barker at the Huffington Post discusses the safety of passengers on long flights, citing recent personal experiences and concluding, “A better plan is needed for caring for those who become seriously ill on long flights. The aviation and health care industries should work together to design, test and implement it.”
• Modern Healthcare, April 08, 2013: Top 25 Women in Healthcare 2013
  IHI CEO Maureen Bisognano is among the 2013 honorees named to Modern Healthcare's Top 25 Women in Healthcare (coverage includes a video interview with Bisognano).
• The Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2013: Steps for Surgical Patients to Fight Infection
  The Wall Street Journal highlights IHI's work spreading best practices to stop surgical site infections - Project JOINTS.
• CardioSource, March 05, 2013: Clinical Innovators: Leading the Nation's Quality Improvement Movement: Maureen Bisognano
  IHI's CEO & President Maureen Bisognano is interviewed by CardioSource, the publication of the American College of Cardiology, on the the current state of the quality improvement movement.
• MedPage Today, February 22, 2013: Computer Systems Cut Hospital Drug Errors
  Greater implementation of computerized provider order entry systems in hospitals, currently modest at best, could substantially reduce costly and potentially harmful drug errors, researchers suggested. David Radley of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement explains why.
• Huffington Post Healthy Living, February 21, 2013: America's Healthcare Crisis: A Prescription for Breaking the Cycle
  This guest column discusses the future of health care and medicine, noting key conversation topics from a September 2012 “intimate discussion [that] was co-sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network in Boston on medical education in the 21st century.”
• Medscape, February 21, 2013: Computer Entry for Scripts May Halve Medication Error
  A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association finds computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system likely reduced medication errors by 48% in 2008. Study authors include David C. Radley, PhD, MPH, from IHI.
• Boston Business Journal, February 15, 2013: Health Care Industry Should Prepare for End-of-Life Talks
  Making certain that health systems respect and deliver on people’s preferences for end-of-life care will clearly be a tall order, given the gap between what Americans say they want and the current reality, say IHI CEO Maureen Bisognano and Ellen Goodman, co-founder of The Conversation Project.
• Daily Trust (Nigeria), February 14, 2013: Federal Government to Check Sharp Practices in Hospitals
  The federal government is devising ways of restoring confidence in the Nigerian health sector, by raising the standard of care provided in hospitals and also monitoring performance to gauge improvement. IHI Senior Vice President Dr. Pierre Barker, who is working with the Nigerian government, pointed out that one of the best ways to ensure quality care is to motivate hospital staff see their patient’s satisfaction as their greatest desire.
• Harvard Gazette, February 14, 2013: Cutting Costs, Buoying Health Care
  On the Harvard School of Public Health’s Voices from the Field program, Don Berwick shared insights from years of working on health care issues, including his many years as leader of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• News 24 Nigeria, February 13, 2013: Federal Government to Design Roadmap for Improving Healthcare
  The federal government of Nigeria is collaborating with stakeholders to improve the quality of health care over the next three years. IHI Senior Vice President Dr. Pierre Barker said Nigerians have good ideas to make things better, and that IHI will help support Nigerians in their efforts by helping them build capacity, improve safety and reliability, and ensure patient-centered care.
• Gulf Times, February 11, 2013: HMC Signs New Pact to Improve Healthcare
  The Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has signed a strategic agreement with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, who will work collaboratively with HMC staff to deliver the highest quality health care to the people of Qatar.
• Midland Daily News, February 11, 2013: Engaging Patients Can Improve Health Care
  IHI CEO Maureen Bisognano spoke to health care providers at Michigan's Saginaw Valley State University as part of the College of Health & Human Services’ fourth annual conference, which focused on transforming the region’s health and health care systems for excellence and accountability.
• Zawya, February 10, 2013: HMC Signs Strategic Partnership with Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  As part of its commitment to the delivery of the highest quality health care to the people of Qatar, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has signed a strategic agreement with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• InformationWeek Healthcare, February 04, 2013: Obama Urged to Mandate Medical Error Reporting
  In this article, former IHI Senior Vice President Jim Conway states his support for a non-adversarial approach to error reporting in health care. Additional reporting makes people more attuned to problems, he says, and organizations with a strong culture of safety tend to be committed to identifying and then rooting out sources of failure.
• Bloomberg, February 03, 2013: To Reduce Medical Errors, Make Them Public
  This article on reporting adverse events in hospitals cites the April 2011 Health Affairs article by IHI authors, "Global Trigger Tool Shows That Adverse Events In Hospitals May Be Ten Times Greater Than Previously Measured."
• Atlanta Business Chronicle, January 28, 2013: WellStar Receives Quality and Patient Safety Awards
  WellStar Cobb Hospital in Georgia received an award from The Partnership for Health and Accountability for its work on overuse and misuse of antibiotics as contributors to antibiotic resistance. WellStar implemented a model for antimicrobial stewardship developed by the Centers for Disease Control and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• Harvard Business Review Blog, January 23, 2013: What Capitalism Can't Fix
  "The rush to disparage nonprofits and the stampede to embrace the idea that for-profits — or for-profit models — can more easily combat our toughest social problems deny reality. Many crucial objectives simply cannot be accomplished while generating a financial return." The work of the nonprofit Institute for Healthcare Improvement and its 5 Million Lives Campaign is given as one example.
• Columbia Daily Tribune, January 20, 2013: MU Leads National Initiative to Foster a New Culture in Health Care Teamwork
  The University of Missouri schools of medicine and nursing are working together, along with health care educators at five other institutions, to develop curricula that will improve communication among providers and tackle the nationwide problem of preventable medical errors. The schools’ efforts to introduce “interprofessional learning” as a teaching model is part of a grant-funded initiative sponsored by the IHI Open School.
• University of Missouri Health System School of Medicine, December 17, 2012: Interprofessional Quality and Safety Training Could Transform Health Care
  In the December 2012 issue of the journal Health Affairs, researchers at the University of Missouri and five other universities describe how medical and nursing schools could join forces to prevent potentially deadly errors, based on findings from the Retooling for Quality and Safety initiative, spearheaded by the IHI Open School and Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.
• hfma Leadership magazine, December 14, 2012: What Makes an ACO Tick? Three Tips from Tucson
  During a September Institute for Healthcare Improvement webcast, “Pioneering ACOs: What Do We Know So Far?”, two executives from Arizona Connected Care shared tips for accountable care organization (ACO) development.
• Kaiser Health News, December 10, 2012: What Sea World, Universal Studios, and the Zoo Can Teach Health Care Executives
  Participants at IHI's 24th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care (December 9-12, 2012, in Orlando, Florida) have the opportunity to visit Sea World, Universal Studios, and the Central Florida Zoo to learn from the pros about how to make their health systems safer.

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• November 12, 2013: IHI Launches Phase Two of Initiative to Honor Patients' End-of-Life Wishes
  IHI is now recruiting organizations for a new Conversation Ready Health Care Community, a 9-month initiative designed to help clinicians in health care organizations become better able to receive and respect patients’ wishes about end-of-life care.
• November 11, 2013: Media Advisory: IHI's 25th National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care
  Nearly 5,000 health care professionals from around the world will gather to launch the next 25 years of health care quality improvement at a time of unprecedented need and opportunity for transformation. Practicing physicians, nurses, quality leaders, health care administrators, executives, patient and family advisors, and students training to be health professionals will gain new insights on what this next phase of change and reform entails, as well as how to magnify and spread pockets of excellence that are simultaneously good for patients, good for communities, and cost effective. More than 100 workshops and presentations led by health care industry experts, that will enable participants to learn how to: navigate the new health reform environment with a growing focus on population health and moving from volume to value-based care; recognize and nurture the skills that support better health and better health care; remain vigilant, reliable, and insistent on reducing harm and achieving patient safety goals; co-design improvement and transformation with patients and families; cultivate leaders and harness the best ideas from wherever they emerge.  Four inspiring keynote presentations from Maureen Bisognano, President and CEO of IHI; Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, IHI; Erik Weihenmayer, World
• November 02, 2013: IHI's Triple Aim & Six Country Effort to Reduce HIV Among Newborns at APHA Annual Meeting
  How can a six-country learning network apply quality improvement methods to test and rapidly scale-up highly effective eMTCT programs? As part of a discussion on the role of policy in addressing HIV in a global context, Sarah Olver, an Operations Director and Improvement Advisor at IHI, presents early findings.
• September 18, 2013: New Survey Reveals ‘Conversation Disconnect’
  There’s a big gap between what people say they should discuss and what actually happens when it comes to one’s wishes about care at the end of life. A new national survey released today by The Conversation Project reveals that while more than 9 in 10 Americans think it’s important to talk about their own and their loved ones’ wishes for end-of-life care, less than 3 in 10 have actually held these sorts of discussions
• September 10, 2013: IHI Welcomes Mark Smith to Board of Directors
  IHI Welcomes Mark Smith to Board of Directors
• August 13, 2013: IHI Welcomes 2013-2014 Quality Improvement Fellows
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a leading innovator in health and health care improvement worldwide, today announced the ten mid-career health professionals who will be spending a year with the organization to sharpen and deepen their skills as quality improvement leaders.
• August 05, 2013: St. Charles and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Form Strategic Partnership
  St. Charles Health System and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement today announced they have formed a strategic partnership to improve health and health care within central Oregon.
• April 24, 2013: IHI Blogs Highlight Health Care Innovation, Insights from the Field, and the Expertise of Top Improvement Leaders
  The IHI Improvement Blogs capture fresh ideas and new thinking from the front lines of patient care and population health. The blogs address the most current and challenging topics facing health care quality improvement in the US and globally — from the innovation process itself, to important topics such as patient safety, reducing infant and maternal mortality, and preventing unnecessary hospital readmissions.
• April 22, 2013: Derek Feeley, NHS Scotland Chief Executive, to Join IHI
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is pleased to share the news that Derek Feeley, current Chief Executive of NHS Scotland, will join IHI as Executive Vice President on September 1, 2013.
• April 11, 2013: Jeffrey D. Selberg to Receive AHA Board of Trustees Award
  Jeffrey D. Selberg, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, will be awarded the 2013 AHA Board of Trustees Award, in recognition of individuals who have made substantial and noteworthy contributions to the work of the American Hospital Association (AHA).
• April 08, 2013: Redefining Primary Care: IHI Convenes Health Care Leaders and Primary Care Teams in Scottsdale, Arizona
  IHI's 14th Annual International Summit on Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice and the Community (April 7-9 in Scottsdale, AZ) convened nearly 1,200 attendees to discuss a diverse range of health care topics, including new ways to engage patients and communities, innovative ways to confront escalating health care costs, new approaches to implementing and spreading patient-centered medical homes (PCMH), and new opportunities for leveraging health IT.
• February 09, 2013: HMC Signs Strategic Partnership with Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has signed a strategic agreement with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to examine new and innovative ways to achieve the safest and most effective quality of health care in Qatar and enhance the patient’s experience at HMC.
• December 11, 2012: IHI Issues Action Brief for Health Care Leaders in the Post-Election Era
  A new report from IHI, “Out of the Blocks: An Action Brief for Health Care Leaders in the Post-Election Era,” outlines key findings, predictions, and insights from some of the nation’s foremost quality improvement and policy experts. The report recaps proceedings from an event that brought together more than 100 health care leaders to discuss election results, what they signaled for health reform, and the strategic priorities of US health care organizations.
• December 11, 2012: New IHI Survey Finds Quality and Safety Training for Health Professions Turning the Corner, But Still Work to Be Done
  Growing interest in the IHI Open School — whose registrants reached 150,000 in more than 50 countries in 2012 — is echoed in the results of a new survey that finds students in the health professions are increasingly seeking out training in quality improvement and patient safety.
• December 10, 2012: IHI Kicks Off 24th Annual National Forum, Welcoming 5,500 Health Professionals to the World's Leading Improvement Conference
  From December 9-12, 2012, IHI is convening more than 5,500 health care professionals from 49 different countries at the 24th Annual National Forum, with the goal of sparking defining conversations and new thinking and ideas that will accelerate the improvement of health and health care worldwide.