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• Cambridge Management Group, March 23, 2018: 5 Aspects of an Effective Hospital Chief Quality Officer
  David M. Williams, Ph.D., executive director at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, writes in Hospital Impact about five things that make for an effective hospital chief quality officer.
• FierceHealthcare, March 22, 2018: Industry Voices—You Can’t Protect Your Patients Without Protecting Your Workers
  In the health care industry’s drive to improve patient safety, leaders may not be paying enough attention to the safety of their workforce. This is a commentary from David Michaels, PhD, MPH, former head of OSHA and member of the IHI/NPSF Lucian Leape Institute.
• BMJ, March 21, 2018: Cristin Lind and Kyle Knox: Co-producing Conferences With Patients—Challenges and Opportunities
  Cristin Lind and Kyle Knox discuss their experience of co-producing a conference with patients.
• Lake County News, March 17, 2018: Sutter Lakeside Hospital Celebrates Patient Safety Awareness Week
  This article contains the experiences of Sutter Lakeside Hospital in celebrating IHI's Patient Safety Awareness Week, a week dedicated to increasing awareness about patient safety among health professionals and the public.
• The Highland Times, March 14, 2018: Work at Raigmore Hospital Improves Patient Care
  In this article, Amy Noble, senior charge nurse at Raigmore Hospital discusses how with the support of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), they have been collecting data to help improve patient care.
• PSQH, March 12, 2018: Gearing Up for Patient Safety Awareness Week
  Almost a year after announcing its merger with the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) celebrated Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW). Running through March 17, the week is focused on culture of safety and patient engagement.
• Modern Healthcare, March 11, 2018: Q&A with IHI CEO Derek Feeley: Address Clinician Burnout by Bringing Back Joy
  IHI President and CEO Derek Feeley was recently interviewed in Modern Healthcare on tackling clinician burnout. He discusses joy in work and how the recent merger between IHI and NPSF will allow the organizations to make progress by building a more systematic approach to safety.
• NEJM Catalyst, March 09, 2018: Lessons in Leadership: Della Lin
  This interview with Della Lin was recorded at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 29th Annual National Forum in Orlando, Florida.
• AJMC In Focus Blog, March 08, 2018: If Healthcare Is a Human Right, How Do We Get There?
  This article contains the views of Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP along with others from a session called “Single-Payer Healthcare: Is It the Right Approach for the US?” at the 2018 National Health Policy Conference of America’s Health Insurance Plans in Washington, DC.
• Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Blog, March 07, 2018: Key Learning from IHI National Forum
  In this piece, Dr. Jared Capouya reflects on the key learnings he took away from the 2017 IHI National Forum.
• FierceHealthcare, February 26, 2018: Three Ways to Pay Attention to Patients That Have Even More Impact Than Empathy
  This article contains three recommendations for how health care providers can better pay attention to their patients.
• NEJM Catalyst, February 23, 2018: Lessons in Leadership: John Chessare
  This interview with John Chessare was recorded at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 29th Annual National Forum in Orlando, Florida.
• Allnurses.com, February 22, 2018: Why Do We Continue to Harm Patients?
  This article describes several medical errors and starts a discussion about the impact of medical error on patients and nurses.
• JAMA, February 22, 2018: How Value-Based Medicare Payments Exacerbate Health Care Disparities
  This article discusses how Medicare’s pay-for-performance model exacerbates health care disparities.
• NEJM Catalyst, February 16, 2018: Lessons in Leadership: Kimberlydawn Wisdom
  This interview with Kimberlydawn Wisdom was recorded at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 29th Annual National Forum in Orlando, Florida.
• NEJM Catalyst, February 09, 2018: Lessons in Leadership: Kevin Rooney
  This interview with Kevin Rooney was recorded at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 29th Annual National Forum in Orlando, Florida.
• NEJM Catalyst, February 08, 2018: Leadership and Vision for a Culture of Safety
  This article discusses what is involved in building a culture of safety and how health care leaders, experienced or not, acquire this skill and apply it.
• McKesson Blog, February 05, 2018: Reaching the Triple Aim with Pharmacy Technology
  This article discusses how health system pharmacies can use advanced pharmacy technology to help their provider organizations meet the three goals of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim.
• NEJM Catalyst, February 02, 2018: Lessons in Leadership: Izabela Nowosielski
  This interview with Izabela Nowosielski was recorded at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 29th Annual National Forum in Orlando, Florida.
• FierceHealthcare, February 01, 2018: Hospital Impact—The Skills That Make or Break a Chief Quality Officer
  This article discusses five levers that make an effective Chief Quality Officer (CQO).
• Healthcare IT News Online, January 31, 2018: HIMSS Analytics survey: Medication Safety Falls Perilously Short of Patient Expectations
  Patients trust that healthcare organizations will provide safe care. Unfortunately, that trust is often broken, according to the results of a survey of 1,131 patients and family members recently conducted by HIMSS Analytics and sponsored by BD. This article discusses the results and includes commentary from experts in the field.
• Becker's Hospital Review Online, January 29, 2018: How ERs Fail Mental Health Patients: 5 Things to Know
  Researchers at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Oakland, Calif.-based Well Being Trust studied how mental healthcare can be integrated into EDs to understand what factors land these patients in emergency care situations. This article shares five things to know about the research.
• Health Affairs Blog, January 26, 2018: Tackling The Mental Health Crisis In Emergency Departments: Look Upstream For Solutions
  The United States is in the middle of a well-documented mental health crisis. In 2015, 127,500 Americans died from drug or alcohol-related causes or suicide. Through research and intensive pilot testing with a small group of leading health systems, this article seeks to demonstrate that health systems, in close partnership with community-based organizations, can simultaneously address both the supply and demand issues by improving care in the ED and working upstream in the community.
• HIMSS, January 19, 2018: Solving Ambulatory Care Challenges with Electronic Health Records
  This article references an IHI blog post about Ambulatory Care Challenges and how to address them.
• Hill Online, January 17, 2018: The Only Way to Battle Opioids Is to Find Holistic Approaches to Pain Management
  This article offers holistic approaches to pain management in response to the more than 60,000 Americans who died from opioids in 2017, lowering life expectancy in the United States.
• U.S. News & World Report, January 16, 2018: How to Make Sure Your Doctor Understands Your Medical Condition
  This article offers tips and strategies for improving doctor-patient communication and includes information on the IHI/NPSF Ask Me 3 program.
• Becker's Hospital Review, January 08, 2018: For Better Care, Break the Rules: 5 Tips to Get Started
  Patient safety experts from around the globe discussed the importance of breaking rules to improve clinical and administrative processes during a December 13 session at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care in Orlando, Florida.
• Healthcare IT News, January 04, 2018: 2018 Industry Predictions from Women in Health IT Leaders
  IHI Chief Clinical and Safety Officer Tejal Gandhi says the New Year will continue to see a focus on patient safety culture. IHI and the National Patient Safety Foundation merged in May 2017 and are focused on quality improvement, health equity, patient safety and similar issues.
• The Charlotte Observer, January 04, 2018: Only One Charlotte Area Hospital Gets a Top Score in Federal Ratings
  Carolinas HealthCare System Pineville is the only Charlotte hospital to earn a top score in newly released federal rankings. Don Goldmann, Chief Scientific Officer Emeritus for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, said the government's star ratings are probably motivating hospitals to improve practices to avoid poor scores, which is a good thing for patients.
• Becker's Hospital Review, December 29, 2017: Top 10 Infection Control Stories of 2017
  Included as #7 in Becker's Hospital Review year-end Top 10 list: 10 healthcare rules patients, staff say should be broken: Healthcare organizations can take specific action to mitigate the burden of unnecessary regulations without sparking political battles or slogging through policy changes, according to a viewpoint article written by three leaders from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• Fierce Healthcare, December 15, 2017: IHI 2017: Strategies to Engage Physicians in Leading Quality Improvement Initiatives
  A program to engage physicians in quality improvement efforts at Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California has seen a 7% reduction in length of stay across the hospital since the initiative began a year ago.
• Fierce Healthcare, December 14, 2017: IHI 2017: Health Care Is in Trouble, But Competition Won’t Solve the Problems, Berwick Warns
  Don Berwick, MD, president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), told attendees at the IHI 29th annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care.that health care will never accomplish the goals of the Triple Aim or the Quadruple Aim, which adds the goal of finding joy and meaning in work., if the industry continues to bet on competition as the remedy to the problem.
• Fierce Healthcare, December 13, 2017: IHI 2017: Patient Safety Efforts Must Move Beyond the Hospital to Encompass Ambulatory, Home Settings
  Although hospitals have seen declines in medication errors, hospital-acquired infection rates and readmissions, it's time to focus on settings such as primary care practices, ambulatory surgical centers, dialysis and home settings, said Tejal Gandhi, MD, chief clinical and safety officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• Fierce Healthcare, December 13, 2017: IHI 2017: Patient-Centered Care Is Not Enough; It’s Time to Create a Partnership of Care
  The relationship between physicians and patients has progressed from one that was once paternalistic to the more recent push to put patients at the center of their care. That’s an improvement, but Derek Feeley, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), said it doesn’t go far enough.
• Modern Healthcare, December 13, 2017: Physicians Must Continue to Drive Value-Based Care Push, Leaders Say
  Hospitals and insurers can't wait for federal policies to move the dial on value-based care and instead must proactively make investments to improve quality of care at lower costs, said Dr. Don Berwick, founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and Dr. Patrick Conway, president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, in a panel at the IHI's National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care in Orlando.
• Fierce Healthcare, December 07, 2017: Given Moral Choices, Doctors Today Can't Be Bystanders, says Don Berwick
  Today’s doctors face moral choices all the time, including those that challenge their personal honesty, the organizations they work for and the society they live in, says Donald M. Berwick, MD.
• Huffington Post, December 05, 2017: New Maternal Mortality Strategy Relies on Medical Homes
  There are 380 pregnancy medical homes in 94 of North Carolina’s 100 counties. According to Community Care of North Carolina, the nonprofit group hired by the state to oversee the program, 94 percent of obstetrical practices that serve the Medicaid population participate in the program.
• hfm Magazine, December 01, 2017: A National Conversation About Patient Safety and Medical Errors
  The IHI/NPSF Lucian Leape Institute, in partnership with the independent research institution NORC at the University of Chicago, recently conducted a public opinion survey of 2,500 US adults representing a cross-section of the population. When asked about patient safety, 41 percent of adults in the United States have some experience with medical error, either directly or indirectly. What lessons does this information offer to our leaders in Washington?
• Journal Sentinel, August 11, 2017: Packers, Titletown District Host International Health Care Group
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Strategic Partner Summer Camp took place at the Green Bay Packers' Titletown Disctrict. The event included 80 attendees from England, Scotland, Sweden, Brazil, Qatar, Denmark and across the United States. IHI seeks to improve delivery of health care around the world.
• Modern Healthcare, June 19, 2017: 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders 2017
  IHI's own Chief Clinical and Safety Officer, Dr. Tejal Gandhi, is number 30 on Modern Healthcare's list of 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders 2017.
• McKnight's, June 16, 2017: Sustainability of Dramatic Drop in SNF Antipsychotic Use in Doubt
  A new report is calling into question the sustainability of recent reductions in antipsychotic use among nursing home residents, and whether providers have shifted from antipsychotics to other less scrutinized but similarly risky medications.
• Health Affairs Blog, June 13, 2017: What To Expect When You Are Managing A Population Health Coalition
  The prospect of finding partners to achieve more than one could alone is inspiring, and the prospect of losing oneself in the process is frightening. Collaboration among a litany of health care and community-based organizations (CBOs) has become a popular approach to pursuing health improvements in cities and towns across the United States. Lauren Taylor of Health Affairs Blog dives into what to expect when managing a population health coalition.
• Hospital & Health Networks, June 13, 2017: Successful Discharge Planning Starts at Admission
  As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services encourage health care providers to reduce avoidable readmissions, better discharge planning has become a priority for hospitals. When patient transitions are top of mind for hospitals, better care is the result.
• Advisory Board, June 09, 2017: These 10 Health Care Rules Are Bad for Care, Providers and Patients Argue
  Providers and patients have identified the top 10 health care rules that they say should be changed to improve care quality—and health care executive and managers can take action on the vast majority of them, according to according to a new JAMA viewpoint from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
• Fierce Healthcare, June 08, 2017: For Better Patient Care, Providers Must Break the Rules
  Regulations can create a major time suck for staff in healthcare facilities, but digging a little deeper into protocols that hospitals follow rigidly could reveal that some rules are made to be broken. That's the conclusion of Don Berwick, M.D., president emeritus of the IHI, and coauthors from the organization, in a Viewpoint article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
• Becker's Hospital Review, June 06, 2017: The Urgent Need to Shine a Bright Light on Healthcare
  Although we are aware of the weaknesses in our system, there is a general lack of urgency in healthcare, and it's concerning. The National Patient Safety Foundation's Lucian Leape Institute, which recently merged with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, observed in its 2015 report, "Shining a Light: Safer Health Care through Transparency," that harm from medical errors continues at unacceptable levels and the U.S. healthcare system is buckling under the costs of care.
• Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality, June 01, 2017: IHI's Dr. Tejal Gandhi: 'We Have to Address Safety with a Total Systems Approach'
  In a recent interview with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement blog, Tejal Gandhi, MD, the new chief clinical and safety officer with IHI, said a total systems approach to patient safety is the future of the movement.
• Modern Healthcare, May 27, 2017: Addressing Behavioral Health to Improve All Health
  Years of research and initiatives focused on prevention and promoting healthier behaviors have missed the mark because they fail to tackle arguably the single greatest contributor to the chronic disease epidemic—mental illness.
• Telegram, May 20, 2017: End-of-Life Care Focus of UMass Memorial Trianing Program
  Ellen Goodman, a former longtime Boston Globe columnist, joined forces with IHI, Dr. Atul Gawande, and Andrew Dreyfus, to found The Conversation Project in 2010. The Conversation Project offers tools online to help talk with a loved one before a crisis hits, which makes it easier to communicate with health care providers when there is a crisis.
• Health Affairs Blog, May 19, 2017: The Humanity in End-of-Life Care
  Health care is personal, especially when it comes to caring for someone as they approach death. However, half of Americans feel they have too little control over end-of-life medical decisions. As the industry moves toward a more holistic approach to care delivery, health care organizations are beginning to rethink how they treat patients and starting to embed end-of-life care plans into the overall approach earlier on, sometimes before people even become ill.
• Sidney Daily News, May 19, 2017: Medical Students Learn How to Administer Naloxone
  Sponsored by the Student Opioid Coalition – a team of students that organizes projects to reduce the number of opiate-related deaths in Dayton, Ohio – more than 40 students gathered at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine in late April, to address the opioid epidemic by learning how to administer Naloxone, also known as Narcan, the drug used to treat opioid overdoses.
• Becker's Hospital Review, May 19, 2017: Dr. Don Berwick: 5 Big Missteps on the Patient Safety Journey
  Dr. Berwick, the former CMS administrator and current senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, spoke to a crowd at the 19th Annual National Patient Safety Foundation Patient Safety Congress Thursday. During the speech he highlighted some missteps in the approach that the patient safety community has taken throughout its improvement journey.
• Fierce Healthcare, May 18, 2017: New Guide Offers Hospital Execs a Blueprint to Create, Lead a Culture of Safety
  Patient safety experts have long urged healthcare executives to create, shape and sustain a culture of safety within their organizations. Now there is a manual to help them do just that and advance their patient safety and workplace safety efforts.
• Becker's Hospital Review, May 18, 2017: Dr. Don Berwick's Reading List: 6 Book Recommendations for Safety Leaders
  Don Berwick, MD, shared six book recommendations for patient safety leaders during a keynote address at the 19th Annual National Patient Safety Foundation Patient Safety Congress.
• Hospitals & Health Networks, May 16, 2017: DIY Medicine Helps Improve Outcomes, Reduce Cost
  The concept of self-care is a new and developing one. Where people used to have to deal with long inpatient stays, they now can learn to self-administer care for chronic conditions. Successful programs have seen not only an improvement in patient quality of life, but also significant improvement in health outcomes as well as reduced costs.
• Becker's Hospital Review, May 11, 2017: Stand Up for Patient Safety Management Awards Announced: 4 Things to Know
  The recipients of the 2017 Stand Up for Patient Safety Management Awards have been announced.
• Boston Globe, May 09, 2017: Med Schools to Teach How to Discuss Patients' Goals for Care — And for Life
  How patients answer questions about overall life goals can inform treatment decisions, especially near the end of life. Four medical schools in Massachusetts have jointly agreed to teach students and residents how to talk with patients about what they want from life, so future doctors will know how far to go in keeping gravely ill patients alive.
• Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, May 08, 2017: Lucian Leape Institute Announces Safety Culture and Technology Innovator Awards
  Nominations are now open for the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute Medtronic Safety Culture and Technology Innovator Awards. This award program, in its inaugural year, will recognize initiatives that drive successful implementation of technology through culture change in health care.
• The Peninsula Qatar, May 06, 2017: First-of-a-Kind Survey on Public Health Launched
  During the fifth Middle East Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare (ME Forum 2017), the Minister of Public Health H E, Dr Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari, announced the launch of the Qatar Public Health Strategy 2017-2022 Consultation, which invites feedback on public health issues in Qatar.
• NZ Doctor, May 04, 2017: Social Investment Approach to Mental Health - Health Minister's Speech
  New Zealand Health Minister, Jonathan Coleman, speaks on the social investment approach to mental health. This is an un-edited media release statement.
• Health Leaders Media, May 04, 2017: How Much Should Hospital Trustees Know About Patient Safety?
  Hospital trustees are not usually chosen for their expertise in patient safety and quality of care. How much they know about patient safety and quality of care is not central to their joining a hospital board and has not been well quantified. A recent study published by The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety builds the relationship between hopsital trustees and how much they know about quality of care.
• Association of Health Care Journalists, May 03, 2017: #AHCJ17 Panel Explores Ongoing Quest for Reliable Measures of Hospital Quality
  Health reporters should be asking the hospitals they cover plenty of in-depth questions about their star ratings and other collected quality measures. But they should not assume that those measures reflect the hospital’s true performance. That was the takeaway from an engaging panel on hospital quality measures held at AHCJ’s Health Journalism 2017 conference in Orlando.
• Huffington Post, May 02, 2017: The Global Epidemic Of Unneeded Cesarean Sections: It’s Time To Do Something
  Why have C-section rates progressively increased in every region of the world over the past three decades? Why do average C-section rates exceed 15 percent in every country outside of sub-Saharan Africa? IHI's Pierre Barker explores the global epidemic of unneeded Cesarean sections.

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• April 23, 2018: IHI/NPSF DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses 2018 Honorees Announced
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the DAISY Foundation have announced the recipients of the 2018 IHI/NPSF DAISY Awards for Extraordinary Nurses. Erin Harlow-Parker, MS, APRN, PMSCNS-BC, of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, has been chosen to receive the individual award. The team award will go to the Surgical Care Unit at Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC. The awards will be conferred during the IHI/NPSF Patient Safety Congress, which takes place May 23-25, 2018, in Boston, Massachusetts.
• March 19, 2018: Media Advisory: IHI/NPSF Patient Safety Congress
  The IHI/NPSF Patient Safety Congress brings together people who are passionate about ensuring safe care equitably for all across the globe.
• February 26, 2018: 2018 IHI Summit on Improving Patient Care
  Summit speakers and sessions will highlight efforts across the country to improve care for individuals and populations; focus on health, well-being, and equity across diverse communities; and ensure health professionals and staff have the supports and resources they need to achieve these broadening goals.
• February 01, 2018: 2018 Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 11-17, Focuses on Patient Engagement and Safety Culture
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) today announced plans for this year’s Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 11-17, 2018. This year’s activities will focus on two critical issues – safety culture and patient engagement. This is the first Patient Safety Awareness Week since the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), lead sponsor of the event for 15 years, merged with IHI in 2017. The events planned promise to reflect the combined energy and commitment to safety and improvement of both organizations.
• January 29, 2018: Media Advisory: IHI's Quality and Safety Experts Available for Comment
  IHI's Quality and Safety Experts Available for Comment
• December 12, 2017: IHI Kicks Off 2017 National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care
  When patients and their clinical teams work as partners, there’s a greater likelihood of better outcomes for patients and greater satisfaction for health care providers, many of whom have been suffering high rates of burnout in recent years. Institute for Healthcare Improvement President and CEO, Derek Feeley, chose this theme today to open up the 2017 IHI National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care. Feeley addressed nearly 5,500 health care professionals, health leaders, students, patient advocates, and community improvers.
• November 29, 2017: Closing the Loop on Patient Referrals in Health Care
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) released guidelines to help standardize the ways in which primary care practitioners activate referrals to specialists and then keep track of the information over time. Closing the Loop: A Guide to Safer Ambulatory Referrals in the EHR Era is the work of an expert panel convened to examine current obstacles to a high quality, safe referral process and offer improvement strategies.
• September 28, 2017: New Survey Looks at Patient Experiences with Medical Error
  The vast majority of Americans are having positive experiences with the health care system, but 21 percent of adults report having personally experienced a medical error, according to a new national survey released today by the IHI/NPSF Lucian Leape Institute and NORC at the University of Chicago. The survey further finds that, when errors do occur, they often have lasting impact on the patient’s physical health, emotional health, financial well-being, or family relationships.
• September 19, 2017: Join IHI for Annual Conference on Improving Health and Health Care
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, newly merged with the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), and thousands of physicians, nurses, quality leaders, administrators, front-line staff, researchers, public health and community leaders, quality and safety professionals, patients and patient advocates, and students sharing new approaches to improving the health and health care of patients and communities.
• September 18, 2017: IHI Announces Safety Culture and Technology Innovator Award Recipients
  A pioneer in the use of medical simulation and a team that introduced a hospital-wide, automated hand hygiene monitoring program have been chosen to receive the 2017 IHI/NPSF Lucian Leape Institute Medtronic Safety Culture & Technology Innovator Awards. The awards will be conferred on September 28 at the 10th Annual IHI/NPSF Lucian Leape Institute Forum & Keynote Dinner in Newton, Massachusetts.
• September 14, 2017: IHI/NPSF Project Seeks to Improve Assessment and Management of Acute Pain
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), which merged with the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) in May, has received support from Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc., to develop a tool to help reduce harm to patients from the over administering of opioids to treat acute pain. The tool will specifically address patients being treated in inpatient and emergency department settings.
• September 12, 2017: IHI Board of Directors Adds New Members, Appoints New Board Chair
  As part of the National Patient Safety Foundation’s (NPSF) recent merger with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), IHI today announced the appointment of four former NPSF Board members to the IHI Board of Directors. New members of the IHI Board include Ann Scott Blouin, RN, PhD, FACHE, Executive Vice President, Customer Relations, The Joint Commission; Gerald B. Hickson, MD, Senior Vice President, Quality, Safety, & Risk Prevention, Joseph C. Ross Chair in Medical Education and Administration, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Mary Beth Navarra-Sirio, RN, MBA, Principal, Sirio2 Healthcare Innovations; and Sam R. Watson, MSA, CPPS, Senior Vice President, Patient Safety and Quality, Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA) Keystone Center. In addition, current board member, Michael Dowling, President and Chief Executive Officer, Northwell Health, assumes the role of IHI Board Chair, previously held by Gary S. Kaplan, MD, Chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Health System.
• September 11, 2017: Breaking the Rules and Shaping the Future of Health Care
  Members of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Leadership Alliance are convinced that with or without formal changes in federal law, health care organizations must act to improve care and reduce health care costs. That’s why leaders from more than 40 health systems across the US and Canada have been working together to develop fresh ideas and to keep the momentum going on improving quality in health care.
• August 28, 2017: IHI and Brazil's Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein Expand Successful Approach to Reduce Unnecessary C-Sections
  Building on the work of a successful 18-month demonstration project, today the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and Brazil’s Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein (HIAE) announced they have received $1.5 million in funding from Merck for Mothers* for a continuation of Projeto Parto Adequado (PPA), which encourages vaginal birth among low-risk women in public and private hospitals in Brazil.
• August 18, 2017: IHI Partners with South Africa National Department of Health on Initiative to Improve Tuberculosis Care and Outcomes
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has been awarded a $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support a four-year quality improvement (QI) initiative to reduce deaths from tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa. The initiative has been co-designed with the South Africa National Department of Health (NDoH) and other partners, and will be the first country-wide TB effort of its kind to utilize QI methodologies at both local and national levels.
• August 07, 2017: SIDM and IHI Issue RFP for Interventions to Improve Diagnostic Accuracy
  ​The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), which recently merged with the National Patient Safety Foundation, have received a $725,100 grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to better understand how delayed or wrong diagnoses happen and to test strategies to reduce them.
• July 10, 2017: RWJF Awards $6.3 Million to 100 Million Healthier Lives Initiative, to Foster Healthier, More Equitable Communities
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) today announced an award of $6.3 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that will lead to the expansion of an initiative to advance the health, wellbeing, and equity of communities. The initiative offers community health leaders a groundbreaking opportunity to combine improvement science with transformational leadership skills in order to effect greater, more sustainable change.
• June 27, 2017: Statement from IHI: Moving Forward with Access, Equity, and the Triple Aim
  At the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the Triple Aim is the lens through which we view the redesign and transformation of health systems and health care. The Triple Aim framework guides how we reflect on any proposal by any administration, including what’s being considered by the US Congress right now.