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• Hospitals & Health Networks Online, September 19, 2016: How Hospitals Are Achieving Health Equity in Practice and On Paper
  Kedar Mate, M.D., chief innovation and education officer for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is mentioned in this article, where he outlined six ways to build the business case for equity, which he mentioned were borrowed “heavily” from Marshall Chin, M.D., from the University of Chicago.
• MedicineNet.com, September 18, 2016: Surgical Readmission Rates Reflect Initial Care, Study Suggests
  Dr. Don Goldmann, chief medical and scientific officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is quotes in this article addressing hospital readmissions. "Some hospitals have put into place systems and practices that reduce the risk of their surgical patients being readmitted," he said.
• American Journal of Managed Care Online, August 26, 2016: #AF4Q Has Revealed Just How Difficult Creating Alignment in the US Healthcare System Can Be
  Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, president emeritus and senior fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, served as the guest editor for The American Journal of Managed Care's supplement on research emerging from the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative. In a series of video interviews, he discussed the lessons of AF4Q regarding alignment in the United States healthcare system, consumer engagement in healthcare, and evaluating social experiments on improving healthcare, among other topics.
• STAT, August 26, 2016: How Do You Honor a Dementia Patient's End-of-Life Wishes?
  This article highlights the Conversation Project's sequel to the "Conversation Project Starter Kit," specifically for families of Alzheimer’s and dementia patients. Co-produced by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, it was co-written by Ellen Goodman, a Pulitzer-winning journalist who founded the Conversation Project and who lost her sister to Alzheimer’s disease roughly four years ago.
• Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare, August 03, 2016: Measures That Matter
  Access to large amounts of data about care delivery and patient outcomes combined with increased concern for poor quality and high cost have led to the development of what Beth McGlynn, director of Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Effectiveness and Safety Research, recently referred to as the “quality measurement industrial complex.” McGlynn spoke at Academy Health’s Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held in Boston in June. There, a host of experts explored the current state of quality improvement and measurement, including Maureen Bisognano and Don Berwick of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• YOUR HEALTH, July 28, 2016: Re-Air: A Third Era of Healthcare with Dr. Donald Berwick
  This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & guest co-host Dr. Catherine Coe will be talking with Dr. Donald Berwick, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services about A Third Era of Healthcare.
• Harvard Business Review Online, July 27, 2016: Large Employers Are Key to Reforming Health Care
  IHI executive director of innovation Lindsay Martin authored this article addressing how employers can take on challenges in health care.
• Planet Jackson Hole, July 12, 2016: St. Johns Medical Center Launches New Public Art Program
  Senior Fellow with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Blair L. Sadler has said, “I am optimistic that promising new research will show these programs will reap the additional benefits of shorter hospital stays, less medication, and fewer complications—potentially saving our healthcare system significant dollars, annually.”
• Inside Edition Online, July 12, 2016: After Pharmacist Gave Boy Wrong Dosase, Killing Him, Other Parents Claim Similar Experiences
  Dr. Frank Federico, Vice President at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and chair of the of the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention says "There has to be a culture, if someone reports an error, they’re not going to be punished for it."
• San Fernando Sun, July 08, 2016: Merger Creates New Mental Health Care Institute
  Maureen Bisognano, recently retired president and CEO of the nonprofit Institute for Healthcare Improvement of Cambridge, Massachusetts, will serve as the chair of an expert advisory panel tasked with creating a blueprint for improving mental health care in U.S. communities.
• American Society on Aging, July 07, 2016: New Guide Can Help Doctors Reduce Racial Disparities in End-of-Life Care
  This guide also meets the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim: improving the patient experience of care, improving the health of populations and reducing the per capita cost of healthcare (by reducing unnecessary, unhelpful and unwanted tests and other procedures).
• Modern Healthcare Online, July 06, 2016: Newly Formed Providence St. Joseph Health Invests $100 Million in Mental Health
  This merger includes an advisory panel chaired by Maureen Bisognano, former president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• American Pharmacists Association Foundation, July 05, 2016: Preparing for Emergency Response in Mass Casualty Events
  “When you think of the Orlando crisis, the ED was overwhelmed with patients who needed to go into surgery or the ICU,” Frank Federico, BSPharm, vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), told Pharmacy Today. “In this type of situation, it’s of key importance to have pharmacists readily available not only as part of the health care team and decision making process, but also to make sure the appropriate departments are getting proper support in the distribution of medicines and I.V.s.”
• Medscape, June 25, 2016: Should Patients Get a Money-Back Guarantee?
  [This guarantee] also shows the community that Geisinger is serious, Trissa Torres, MD, MSPH, FACPM, senior vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), told Medscape Medical News. The refund "sends a very public signal about really putting patients at the center of care," she said.
• WGBH - Boston Public Radio, June 15, 2016: How Can Massachusetts Improve Access to Dental Care for the State's Poorest Residents
  "We tend to think of dental care as an afterthought...but it's very important," said Don Berwick, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services and a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• CommonHealth, May 31, 2016: At "Pain School" Veterans Learn to Manage with Fewer Pills
  “Pain management programs like the VA’s are pretty few and far between,” says Mara Laderman, senior research associate at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. She says there are several reasons why. “Physicians have been trained to prescribe opioids for chronic pain, they’re slammed with packed schedules, and there aren’t a lot of physicians who are trained in pain management.”
• P&T Online, May 31, 2016: Hospital Cuts Sepsis Deaths with Surveillance, Extra Training
  This article highlights a study done at Huntsville Hospital, where they implemented the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Surviving Sepsis Guidelines using real-time electronic surveillance.
• Gulf Times, May 22, 2016: 3,700 Attend Patient Safety Forum
  Organised by Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), in collaboration with American-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the Middle East Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare (ME Forum) featured four keynote addresses from world-renowned experts, and included over 55 interactive workshops and lectures.
• Life as a Healthcare CIO, May 21, 2016: A Multi-Stakeholder Discussion in Washington
  This blog post summarizes the discussion had by a group of government, provider, and developer stakeholders that took place at a meeting organized by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement last week.
• HFM Online, May 20, 2016: Bringing Care Management Into the Community
  Trissa Torres, MD, senior vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is quoted in this article on managing care with a population health approach. “We are not quite hitting the mark yet because, oftentimes, we focus on coordinating care for patients across the continuum of health care and stop there," she says. "We don’t get to that piece where we also reach out to address what else may be going on, those social determinants of health.”
• Huffington Post, May 18, 2016: Achieving Health -- How We Can 'Just Start'
  Today, our most pressing health issues are the result of interrelated social and environmental factors that interact in equally complex and often unpredictable ways with our genes, medical history, lifestyle choices, and more. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 100 Million Healthier Lives campaign is one initiative investing in the effort to promote multisectoral approaches to health.
• Boston Globe, May 12, 2016: Wishes for End-of-Life Care Often Ignored, Survey Finds
  When hundreds of Massachusetts residents were asked about end-of-life medical care, the results revealed widespread failure by doctors and patients to prepare for illness and death. Maureen Bisognano, IHI Senior Fellow, recalls personal experience with this issue at the end of her brother's life.
• Ghana Health Nest, May 09, 2016: Dr. Sodxi-Tettey Appointed as New Head of Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Africa
  Dr. Sodzi Sodzi–Tettey has been appointed as the Executive Director and Head of the Africa Region of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). He takes over from Dr. Nneka Mobisson-Etuk and shall be responsible for business development, the operations and implementation of IHI’s work in Africa, and for continued development of IHI’s expanding portfolio in Africa as part of the organization’s global strategy.
• MedCity News, May 07, 2016: About that Johns Hopkins Study on Medical Errors (podcast)
  In this podcast, Frank Federico, a vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement shares his thoughts on the Johns Hopkins study, published in BMJ, that called medical errors the third leading cause of death in the U.S. That works out to slightly more than 250,000 unnecessary deaths annually, or about 9.5 percent of all fatalities in the country.
• Huffington Post, May 06, 2016: Quality and Safety in Healthcare
  Brian Boyle, International Healthcare Advocate and Red Cross National Volunteer Spokesman, discusses his recent keynote address at the International Forum hosted by the British Medical Journal and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• WGBH News - Boston Public Radio, May 05, 2016: Dr. Don Berwick: Medical Error is the Third Leading Cause of Death in the US
  The two most common causes of death in the United States are medical: heart disease and cancer, respectively. According to a new study, the third cause could also be medical—in a terrifying way. According to research published in the British Medical Journal, medical errors in hospitals and other medical facilities could be the third leading cause of death in the U.S., claiming 250,000 lives every year.
• FierceHealthcare, May 05, 2016: Collaborative Efforts Key to Medical Error Data Collection
  Adjustments on how the healthcare industry collects data on medical errors, especially those that lead to patient death, must be a "collaborative effort," Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Vice President Frank Federico tells FierceHealthcare in an exclusive interview.
• Modern Healthcare Online, May 04, 2016: Medical Errors May Kill 250,000 a Year, but Problem Not Being Tracked
  Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the U.S., killing more than 250,000 people each year. But the problem is not being tracked widely, according to an analysis published Tuesday in the BMJ. “The numbers are everywhere,” said Frank Federico, vice president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• JAMA, May 03, 2016: Patient Safety at the Crossroads
  Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, President Emeritus at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement co-authored this article that reevaluates the status of patient safety improvements 15 years after "To Err is Human."
• Zogvisie, April 25, 2016: "Only through transparency can you learn from the best"
  This article with Institute for Healthcare Improvement CEO Derek Feeley profiles his inspirations for his work, proudest accomplishments, and goals for patient safety.
• Hospitals & Health Networks, April 22, 2016: A Population Health Approach to the Opioid Epidemic
  Hospitals have become adept at using big-picture, strategic thinking to try and rearrange how health care is delivered and solve the most vexing of problems. That’s what innovation experts at the Institute for Health Care Improvement, and Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., have done in recent years while trying to find a way to curb the plague of pain pills and heroin hitting the streets.
• Zogvisie, April 22, 2016: Rock 'n Roll with Don Berwick
  Don Berwick, founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), surprised last week at the IHI conference in Gothenburg. In a game show format, he took the 3,500 participants back to the fundamentals of continuous quality improvement.
• The Washington Post, April 15, 2016: These Hospitals Are Doing Something Shocking: Giving Refunds to Unhappy Patients
  At Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania, if patients are upset about a long wait in the emergency department, or a doctor’s brusque manner, or a meal that never arrived in a room, it is doing more than apologizing. It’s offering money back on their care, no questions asked. Maureen Bisognano, president emerita at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, agrees.
• Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare, April 13, 2016: I-PASS and SBAR Handoff Tools Have Proven Benefits
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Frank Federico is quoted in this report on communication improvements. Communication failures continue to plague patient care. For nearly two decades, communication failures have been frequently attributed to harmful events in healthcare. Judging by a new report looking at malpractice claims, those problems aren't getting any better.
• Sheboygan Press Online, April 06, 2016: Consider Attending Honoring Your Wishes
  According to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 90 percent of the US agrees that talking with loved ones about end-of-life care is important — 23 percent have done it. Starting that conversation can be difficult, and this event will help provide tools to make it easier.
• Leadership, March 31, 2016: Milestones in Quality Improvement Measurement
  Robert Lloyd, PhD, a vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is quoted in this article about measurement in quality improvement. “A lot of measurement efforts fail because people say they are really into improving quality, but they don’t have a clear roadmap to guide their quality measurement journey,” he says.
• Huffington Post, March 30, 2016: Obamacare Enrollees Are Sick and Getting A Lot of Medical Care
  Institute for Healthcare Improvement founder and president emeritus Don Berwick is quoted in this article on how Obamacare successds at its twin goals of extending health coverage to the uninsured and enabling people to access life-saving treatments. “We’re seeing here the consequences of a very complex insurance system and the fact that now, people who need the care have a chance to find the care,” he says.
• Healthcare Informatics Online, March 24, 2016: Premier Healthcare Alliance Leaders Announce Broad Care Delivery Improvements After Five Years of QUEST
  Donald Berwick, M.D., a healthcare leader who was best known as CEO of the Cambridge, Mass.-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) before serving as acting administrator of the federal centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in 2010-2011, was on hand to praise the work of the QUEST program and to offer his perspectives on its contributions to healthcare delivery reform.
• Salamancapress.com, March 24, 2016: Healthy Living Consortium Working to Make Country Healthier Place to Live
  Speaking on behalf of the consortium, [Kate] Ebersole said the county health department applied for and was awarded a SCALE (Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation) grant. This grant was awarded by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
• Offaly Express, March 21, 2016: Tullamore Hospital Staff Graduate from National Quality Course
  A number of staff from Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore successfully completed a Course in Quality Improvement and were awarded for their achievement last week by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
• Lancet, March 19, 2016: Patient Safety is Not a Luxury
  At the 2016 Patient Safety Global Action Summit, Donald Berwick, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, reminded attendees that patient safety must be addressed on a global scale, emphasising that these issues are most crucial in the nations with the fewest resources, whose citizens cannot afford for quality to fail.
• Huffington Post, March 17, 2016: Chronicle of Health Creation: The Shadow in Berwick's Call for a 'Moral Era' for Medicine
  In the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Donald Berwick, MD, calls on the health care industry to enter a new “Moral Era.” Berwick rolled out the idea for Era 3 and its nine steps in the February 18, 2016, WIHI program, “Why Morality Matters.”
• Huffington Post, March 15, 2016: 5 Hassle-Free Ways To See A Medical Professional - Fast
  This article describes how you can spend less money—and less time waiting—to get your medical needs met. Don Goldmann, M.D., chief medical and scientific officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is quoted.
• Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality, March 14, 2016: 10 Recent Stories, Studies to Know for Patient Safety Awareness Week
  Established in 2002, Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual education and awareness campaign for healthcare safety led by the National Patient Safety Foundation. In honor of this campaign, Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality has rounded up the following 10 stories and studies on patient safety, published in March. In one story, Jennifer Lenoci-Edwards, RN, director of patient safety at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, outlined four ways to encourage healthcare workers and hospital staff to speak up about patient safety in a recent IHI Improvement Blog post.
• Harvard Gazette, March 09, 2016: Professor Shares the Simplicity Behind Daily Changes
  Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) chief medical officer Don Goldmann recently gave a lecture to the Harvard Ed Portal, drawing off of his online course "Practical Improvement Science in Healthcare: A Roadmap for Getting Results," to challenge the audience to be curious about how they execute everyday tasks.
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 09, 2016: Dalai Lama Brings Message of Peace, Nonviolence to Madison
  Soma Stout, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI's) Executive External Lead for Health Improvement, recently participated in a panel discussion with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Madison, Wisconsin. "I would never argue with you. I hear you're a very skilled debater with many years of experience," Stout said.
• Becker's Hospital Review, March 07, 2016: Empowering Hospital Staff to Speak Up About Safety: 4 Tips
  Jennifer Lenoci-Edwards, RN, director of patient safety at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, outlined four ways to encourage healthcare workers and hospital staff to speak up about patient safety in a recent IHI Improvement Blog post.
• WBUR's CommonHealth, March 07, 2016: Eva Gets A Mammogram: A Primer on Finding Quality in Mammography
  Don Goldmann, chief medical and scientific officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is quoted in this article on the status of mammography quality in healthcare. "I’d say we’re in a very beginning state," says Don. "I hesitate to use the word primitive, but we’re not where we need to be by any stretch of the imagination.”
• Medscape, March 04, 2016: 100,000 Babies Campaign Improves NICU Outcomes
  This project is named the "100,000 Babies Campaign" because of its resemblance to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's "100,000 Lives Campaign," which successfully addressed important areas in care aimed at saving 100,000 lives. Please create a Medscape login free of charge to access the article.
• Forbes Online, March 04, 2016: Evidence-Based Practice, Not Silicon Valley Unicorns, Will Fix Home Care
  This article sites a 2014 Institute for Healthcare Improvement study finding thatout of the top 100 funded startups that year, only 23% had peer-reviewed research to support their marketing claims.
• Orlando Medical News, March 02, 2016: IHI Unveils SNF Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events
  Last December at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) 27th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare, presenters reviewed a methodology developed to identify AE in SNFs. This led to the creation of this new tool.
• Hospitals & Health Networks Online, March 01, 2016: On Sepsis, IHI Aims to Help Hospitals "Wrestle this very Troubling Problem to the Ground"
  Like many hospital leaders, sepsis management wasn’t really on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s list of things to tackle, when it started work on critical care. But that’s quickly changed and, after years of rooting out best practices, the organization is launching a nine-month-long series of Web events tied to sepsis strategy, debuting with the first installment Wednesday, March 2.
• Huffington Post, February 25, 2016: Here's How Obamacare Is Keeping People Out of the Hospital
  Don Berwick, founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and former administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, is quoted in this article profiling a drop in readmissions rates. Dr. Berwick told the Huffington Post that he thought the study was "well-designed and well-analyzed."
• Harvard Business Review, February 24, 2016: This Coalition of US Companies Thinks It Can Change US Health Care
  The Institute for Health Care Improvement's (IHI's) Lindsay Martin and Alex Anderson authored this piece about the Health Transformation Alliance (HTA) and its goal to improve the way corporations provide health care benefits in an effort to create better health care outcomes for their employees.
• Health Affairs, February 17, 2016: Patients Are the Sun: The Imperative for Consumer Engagement in Transforming Health Care
  In his keynote speech, Donald Berwick, president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, underlined the critical need for the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation's mission: to advance the role of consumers in health system transformation.
• Nurses, February 17, 2016: Healthcare Miscommunication Costs 2,000 Lives and $17 Billion
  Frank Federico, vice president for patient safety at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, MA, told Stat News the findings were disappointing because they suggest two decades of work has achieved too little progress. “We’ve been working on this for a long time, and it still continues to be a big problem,” said Federico, who previously worked at CRICO as a patient safety specialist.
• WBUR-FM Online & Broadcast, February 17, 2016: How Community Health Workers Act as a "Bridge" for Patients Needing Extra Help
  Mara Laderman, a senior research associate at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, said clinics and agencies that want to hire a community health worker must be prepared to define that role and train the new employee for a specific set of tasks.
• WGBA-TV Online, February 16, 2016: Addressing Poverty in Northeast Wisconsin
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) from Cambridge, MA is working closely with U.S. Venture and several other agencies to launch a program they've had success with elsewhere.
• Hospitals & Health Networks, February 12, 2016: What We Can Learn From the Scots' Health Care System
  In this interview, Derek Feeley, chief executive of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and former head of the Scottish National Health System, discusses what the United States can learn from the Scottish system.
• Hospitals & Health Networks Online, February 12, 2016: How to Use the 5 P's of Transformational Design to Build Better Health Care Spaces
  Barbara Balik, R.N., Ed.D., author of this article on utilizing design to improve health care environments, is a co-founder of Aefina Partners, a member of the senior faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and a member of the National Patient Safety Foundation Board of Governors.
• Health IT Outcomes Online, February 11, 2016: Healthcare Miscommunication Costs 2,000 Lives and $1.7 Billion
  Frank Federico, vice president for patient safety at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, MA, told Stat News the findings were disappointing because they suggest two decades of work has achieved too little progress.
• HFMA Leadership Magazine, February 10, 2016: Taking A Comprehensive View of Population Health Management
  In this interview, Trissa Torres, senior vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvment (IHI), discusses how health systems should "look outside their own walls to develop new partnerships."
• HFMA Leadership Magazine, February 10, 2016: Population Health: The "Upstream Effort"
  Niñon Lewis, executive director at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is quoted in this article on Population Health and the importance of taking on population health initiatives.
• Repertoire Online, February 04, 2016: Patient Safety in the Primary Care Office
  Most healthcare professionals could easily provide examples of harm events in hospitals, including wrong-side surgeries, medication errors, falls, and pressure ulcers, writes Jennifer Lenoci-Edwards, patient safety director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in a recent IHI blog.
• The New York Times Opinionator, February 03, 2016: Hospitals Focus on Doing No Harm
  In recent years, with leadership from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine, federal programs like the Partnership for Patients and many others, numerous hospitals have made focused efforts to reduce harm.
• STAT, February 01, 2016: Communication Failures Led to 1,744 Patient Deaths in Five Years
  Frank Federico, vice president for patient safety at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is mentioned in this article, calling the findings "disappointing" because they suggest two decades of work has achieved too little progress.
• Modern Healthcare Online, January 30, 2016: U.S. Medical Schools Immersing First-Year Students into the Nitty-Gritty of Day-to-Day Medical Care
  Don Goldmann, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is mentioned in this article detailing some medical schools' new immersive training practices. “It can create a passion for improving the situation,” said Dr. Goldmann. “Walking in patients' footsteps is critical.”
• Hospitals & Health Networks Online, January 27, 2016: Action Needed More Than Data Collection in Improving Quality
  Speaking at a webinar, Don Berwick, M.D., president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, urges health care leaders to step away from the data and do something with it.
• FierceHealthcare, January 26, 2016: 3 Steps to Help Reduce Diagnostic Errors
  According to a blog post by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the latest research indicates that a diagnostic error is a factor is about 10 percent of patient deaths.
• The New York Times Opinionator, January 26, 2016: Reducing Preventable Harm in Hospitals
  This New York Times article highlight's the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Series College, which works to spread innovative ideas through a collaborative learning model.
• Educate the Young, January 21, 2016: A New Friend and Teacher in Health Disparities
  This article includes a link to an article Dr. Ron Wyatt recently wrote discussing his experience as an IHI Fellow looking at disparity in the Deep South. The article is entitled "The Stuff that is Killing Us," and was originially posted on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website.
• WCVB-TV Online, January 21, 2016: Are You Conversation Ready?
  90 percent of people say that talking with their loved ones about end of life care is important, but less than 30 percent have actually done so. Consequently, many Americans are at risk of spending the final days of their lives in ways they would never choose. IHI is working wo develop and pilot new strategies to ensure that patients are encouraged to have these conversations with their loved ones and that there are systems in place to adequately capture the conversations so they can be accessed by health care providers when needed.
• Modern Healthcare - Vital Signs, January 15, 2016: Blog: NEJM Writers Confuse "Medical Taylorism" with "Lean"
  The editors at NEJM might want to go back and read Dr. Donald Berwick's 1989 article entitled "Continuous Improvement as an Ideal in Health Care." Dr. Berwick later launched the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and became the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
• HealthLeaders Online, January 14, 2016: Donald Berwick Calls for 'Moral' Approach to Healthcare
  Don Berwick, president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and the former head of CMS, advocates for a single-payer system and for bringing "pride and joy" to the workplace among physicians, nurses, administrators, and executives who are all involved in doing the work of caring.
• Hospitals Health Networks Online, January 13, 2016: Stepping Up Against Sepsis
  This article highlights North Shore-LIJ and other hospitals' adoption of IHI's methodology to address sepsis and support process re-engineering.
• Hospitals & Health Networks Online, January 13, 2016: IHI VP Andrea Kabcenell, R.N., on Sepsis Management
  In this article, Institute for Healthcare Improvement VP Andrea Kabcenell discusses how IHI realized sepsis' significant toll on patients, and over the past several years has taken on reducing mortality from the infection.
• Forbes, January 07, 2016: The New Year's Resolutions the Key Players in Healthcare Should Make
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has demonstrated convincingly that the cause of most medical errors is not individual physicians but, rather, the system of care in which they practice.
• Oncology Times, December 31, 2015: Has Anything Changed in the 15 Years Since "To Err is Human"?
  “This was a transformative report for health care... it was a turning point,” said Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), former member of the IOM's Governing Council, and a member of the committee that wrote “To Err Is Human.”
• POLITICO Online, December 30, 2015: Death Panels: An Obituary
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, led by Don Berwick and then Maureen Bisognano, partnered with the Conversation Project to end the misleading stigma of "death panels," and re-emphsize the importance end-of-life conversations.
• The Boston Globe, December 28, 2015: Accountable Health Care Organization Having Early Success with Quality, Costs
  Coastal Medical stands as an example of an ACO that is making it work: In 2014, it saved $7.2 million while maintaining high ratings for quality. “With the community-based kind of effort produced in Rhode Island, you can set the stage for national change,” said Dr. Donald M. Berwick, senior fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge and former administrator of the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
• Crain's Chicago Business, December 21, 2015: High Drug Prices Emerge as Top Issue
  Institute for Healthcare Improvement CEO Derek Feeley is quoted in this article about the top issues in health care currently. “Wherever I go, people complain about the burden of measurement,” said Feeley.
• FierceHealthcare, December 21, 2015: Berwick Advocates for New Era of Accountability
  It's time to enter a new era of healthcare that returns to the purpose embraced by old-school practitioners and combines it with the accountability of today's healthcare demands, Don Berwick, the former head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said.
• Oshkosh Northwestern, December 19, 2015: Oshkosh Poised to Turn the Tide on Poverty
  IHI is offering consulting support for a regional poverty reduction movement at no cost to the Oshkosh community; a project driven by the Triple Aim for Populations.
• Boston Business Journal Online, December 18, 2015: Q&A with Don Berwick, Newest Member of the State's Health Policy Commission
  Don Berwick will embark on a new role starting next month: as a member of the state's Health Policy Commission. His time as a pediatrician, a professor at Harvard Medical School, staff at Boston Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and co-founder and president emeritus of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement prepare him well for this role.
• Healthcare Finance News, December 18, 2015: Good Hospitals Are Being Fined for Infections, CMS Program Needs Fixing, Expert says
  Don Goldmann, chief medical and scientific officer for Institute of Healthcare Improvement, thinks the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services needs to change its methodology for ranking providers by their number of hospital-acquired infections as many respected hospitals are seeing payment reductions in the program.
• Hartford Courant, December 17, 2015: Shaping the Future of Primary Care: CHC Launches National Clinical Workforce Development Initiative
  This article features the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Series Collaborative - a collaborative learning model used for training healthcare personnel to improve quality in their organizations.
• Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality, December 16, 2015: 10 Most Popular Stories, Studies on Bloodstream Infections and Blood Clots in 2015
  Implementing the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's infection prevention and control measures led to a sustained decrease in CLABSIs in an intensive care unit and step-down unit, this published study found.
• Hospitals & Health Networks Online, December 15, 2015: New Institute for Healthcare Improvement CEO on the One Key to Population Health
  With noted industry figure and keynote speaker Maureen Bisognano planning to retire at the year's end, Derek Feeley will assume the top post at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement on Jan. 1. In this video, he details his priorities for the organization in 2016.
• Hospitals & Health Networks Online, December 11, 2015: Don Berwick Offers Health Care 9 Steps to End This Era of Greed and Excessive Measurement
  Don Berwick, M.D. — former head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and senior fellow with the Institute of Healthcare Improvement — illustrated the wide gap between what health care is and what it could be with two patient stories during his closing keynote at the IHI Forum Wednesday.
• Boston Globe Online, December 10, 2015: Don Berwick to Join State Health Policy Comission
  Don Berwick is a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a Cambridge nonprofit that works with health care organizations around the world on patient safety issues. He founded the organization and ran it for nearly 20 years.
• Hospitals & Health Networks Online, December 10, 2015: Hospital Leaders Must Adapt to New Roles, Rewrite Rules for Improvement, Says Retiring IHI Chief
  This is the last Institute for Healthcare Improvement Forum for Maureen Bisognano, as the influential industry figure plans to retire from her duties at the close of 2015.
• Medical Economics Online, December 10, 2015: First Take: Medical Records Belong to Patients. Period.
  The Open Records movement is a start. Donald Berwick, MD, of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement has been calling for doctors and hospitals to give the records to patients for years.
• Modern Healthcare - Vital Signs, December 09, 2015: OB-GYNs and Surgeons Most Likely to be Sued, survey finds
  A survey found that 59% of more than 4,000 U.S. primary-care physicians had been named in at least one malpractice lawsuit in their career. Obstetricians, gynecologists and surgeons were most likely to be sued, according to findings published in Medscape. These issues were the focus of sessions at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement's annual forum this week in Orlando, Fla.
• Becker's Hospital Review Online, December 08, 2015: 8 Tips to Create a Total Systems Approach to Patient Safety
  "Despite some significant successes, we know that far too many people still suffer from avoidable injuries in care," said Don Berwick, MD, president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. This article identifies helpful tips for eliminating these injuries.
• Hospitals & Health Networks Online, December 08, 2015: At IHI Forum: New Surgeon General Offers Hospitals Advice for Tackling Population Health
  Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, M.D., sat down with Don Berwick, M.D., former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, for a conversation on population health to help kick off the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s annual forum.
• Modern Healthcare Online, December 08, 2015: Healthcare Safer in Some Areas but Not Overall, the @NPSF says
  “Safety has to fight for airtime,” said committee chair, Dr. Donald Berwick. He met up with Modern Healthcare in Orlando during the 27th annual Institute for Healthcare Improvement Forum, where the report was released.
• Tribune Online, December 05, 2015: The Talk; Approach the End-of-Life Care Conversation the Right Way
  More than 90 percent of people think it's important to talk about end-of-life care, but fewer than 30 percent actually do, according to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, December 03, 2015: The Emory Experience: Quality Improvement Skills Labs in Interdisciplinary Education
  Medical student Ariadne DeSimone describes her experience as President of Emory University’s IHI Open School Chapter, including her journey from learning the basics of quality improvement and patient safety, to designing and implementing a graduate QI training session, to cultivating and sustaining genuine interest in QI among Emory’s interdisciplinary student community.
• Hospitals & Health Networks, December 01, 2015: What Do Most Health Care Systems Have in Common?
  Health care systems in most countries face remarkably similar challenges, but increasingly health care leaders around the world are influencing each other.
• HFMA, December 01, 2015: Improvements in Hospital-Acquired Conditions Stall
  Following several years of improvements, the rate of hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) did not improve in 2014, according to new federal data.
• EMS World, December 01, 2015: Pioneer ACO Spending and Use
  Of note from the study's findings, Pioneer ACO beneficiaries rated their experience of care at least as high as for beneficiaries in the fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage programs. This seems to indicate that providers, given the right incentives, can simultaneously achieve at least two of the IHI’s Triple Aim goals.
• U.S. News & World Report, November 11, 2015: Unsatisfied with Your Surgery? Get (Some of) Your Money Back
  Dr. Don Berwick, president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, says Geisinger Health System's new program will re-engineer care to better serve patient's needs, and be "a whole new way to understand the experience and outcomes of patients."
• The Economist Intelligence Unit, November 11, 2015: Diabetes in the Gulf: The Policy Challenge
  Dr. Azhar Ali, executive director at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, shares his insight and experience in this article assessing the current status and potential impact of diabetes in the six Gulf Co-operation Council states—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
• Central Maine Online, November 07, 2015: Maine Hospitals Once Again Tops in Quality
  Quality, combined with improving patients’ experience of care, is one-third of the Triple Aim health care reform framework developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, Mass. Maine hospitals are also working hard to address the other two goals of Triple Aim: improving population health and reducing per capital cost of health care.
• BBC Online, November 06, 2015: Wales Should "Unite Against Obesity" - US Health Expert
  Don Berwick, a former health adviser to US President Barack Obama and co-founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has said the size of Wales makes it well placed to improve the NHS and tackle the obesity "epidemic."
• Orlando Sentinel Online, November 04, 2015: How Health Care Will Look with a Physician Shortage
  The Association of American Medical Colleges projects that the nation will face a shortage of 12,000 to 31,000 primary-care physicians by 2025. Dr. Don Goldmann, chief medical and scientific officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, Mass., sees the growth of walk-in clinics as proof that they fill important needs, providing "easier access to providers and quick, convenient care."
• Orléans Star Online, November 03, 2015: Local Resident Wins Prestigious Scholarship
  Kelsey Lett of the Champlain Community Care Access Centre in Ontario, Canada, has won the prestigious James Conway Patient and Family Advisor Scholarship from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• Health Care Blog, October 27, 2015: Healthcare's Deadly Data Problem
  This article mentions one of IHI's key principles: "Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets."
• The Providence Journal, October 23, 2015: RI's Coastal Medical Gets National Recognition for New Care Model
  Rhode Island's largest group of primary care doctors has enjoyed so much success embracing a new model of care — one that is being touted by experts as a way to help cure the ills of America's health system — that it's now ranked among the best in the nation. IHI's Don Berwick spoke at the gathering to learn about Coastal's experience.
• Public Finance, October 19, 2015: US Health Guru Gets NHS England Role
  Don Berwick, currently a senior fellow at the US-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement, will participate in a series of events organised with the King’s Fund think-tank to help the vanguard projects develop effective leadership for system transformation.
• Furst Group, October 16, 2015: Maureen Bisognano Looks Beyond the Healthcare Silo for Improvement
  For the last 20 years, it’s been common for healthcare executives to look to the aviation industry for both inspiration and best practices in improving quality and safety. But Maureen Bisognano, CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, thinks perhaps we should look beyond the horizon for the next step.
• Modern Healthcare Online, October 15, 2015: Bisognano to Retire from IHI After 20 Years; Executive VP Will Replace Her
  Maureen Bisognano, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, has announced that she will retire at the end of the year. Derek Feeley, IHI's current executive vice president, will replace her.
• Not Running a Hospital, October 14, 2015: In Appreciation: Maureen Bisognano and Jim Roosevelt
  Maureen Bisognano has announced that she will step down as head of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and Jim Roosevelt announced his retirement as CEO of Tufts Health Plan.
• The Guardian, October 13, 2015: Healthcare Leadership Academy to Tackle Medical Tourism
  IHI, along with others, is involved in an intervention to plug leadership gaps in the health sector and reduce the level of health tourism from Nigeria to other parts of the world.
• Hospitals & Health Networks, October 07, 2015: IHI Lays Out 10 Ways to Radically Transform Health Care
  Maureen Bisognono, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement gave a talk on these 10 methods at the International Hospital Federation's World Hospital Congress.
• MyPalmBeachPost, October 01, 2015: Editorial: Medicare is Past Due in Paying for End-of Life Discussions
  Developed in conjunction with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, this article dicusses the Conversation Project, which offers suggestions for initiating the conversation with family and physicians, too.
• The Independent, September 30, 2015: St. Ninians Primary's Daily Mile Program Proves a Hit in Tackling Childhood Obesity
  Elaine Wiley developed this program four years ago to improve the fitness of her elementary school students. She initally presented the idea at IHI's Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in healthcare, and is now receiving "Teacher of the Year" and the Pride of Britain awards.
• Lean Healthcare Exchange, September 30, 2015: Context is Key
  Despite promising pilots and articles, taking things from one site to many sites successfully turns out to be really, really difficult. From disease management to care management to patient-centered medical home (and perhaps ACOs next), getting to “just the way we do things” is pretty difficult. Author Dave Munch is a member of IHI's faculty.
• GhanaWeb, September 30, 2015: Project Fives Alive, Impacts Positively on Health
  The PFA!, an initiative of National Catholic Health Service (NCHS) in partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a US-based Health NGO also achieved 53 per cent reduction of post-neonatal infant mortality and 37 per cent reduction in under five malaria case fatality.

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• September 21, 2016: IHI Announces 2016-2017 Quality Improvement Fellows
  Nine clinicians, researchers, and health care leaders, spanning diverse disciplines and countries, convene in Cambridge for 12-month immersion program with IHI.
• August 08, 2016: IHI Releases Health Equity Guide for Health Care Organizations
  New white paper offers actionable guidance, self-assessment tool, case study, and other key information for health care organizations to improve health equity.
• May 02, 2016: ABMS MOC Directory to Offer IHI Open School Courses
  The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), a leading organization that oversees physician Board Certification and the Program for Maintenance of Certification (MOC®) in the United States, announced today the addition of Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Open School online courses to the ABMS MOC Directory, powered by MedEdPORTAL’S CE Directory (MOC Directory).
• March 21, 2016: IHI Summit Brings Together Health Improvers
  Three-day gathering highlights the importance of workforce wellbeing and the need for health care systems to form partnerships to improve the overall health of communities.
• February 10, 2016: IHI Experts Available for Commentary
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is now convening and working with multiple organizations at different stages of the transition to population management and population health, which by design brings the focus back to patients and providers and opens up new ways to address health inequities and improve the health of communities.
• December 08, 2015: IHI Convenes Nearly 5,500 for 27th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care
  Maureen Bisognano, President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), kicked off the 27th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care with these remarks today, speaking to nearly 5,500 health care professionals, health leaders, and clinical improvers in Orlando.
• October 13, 2015: Maureen Bisognano to Retire as IHI President and CEO at End of 2015; EVP Derek Feeley Appointed to Lead the Organization
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement announced that Maureen Bisognano will retire as IHI President and CEO at the end of 2015, and Executive Vice President Derek Feeley has been appointed to lead the organization.
• October 05, 2015: Join IHI for 27th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a leading innovator in health and health care improvement worldwide, plus nearly 6,000 physicians, nurses, quality leaders, administrators, front-line staff, researchers, public health and community leaders, quality and safety professionals, patients and patient advocates, and students will come together at the 27th Annual National Forum.