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• 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.
• The JAMA Network, April 27, 2017: Breaking the Rules for Better Care
  Administrative burdens and complexity are alleged to be among the most costly forms of waste in US health care, at levels far exceeding those in other nations. Such requirements are said to detract from the care experience of patients and to drain time and morale from physicians and other staff. This Viewpoint describes an effort undertaken in a network of North American hospitals and clinics to explore the types and magnitudes of such waste at the front lines of care.
• Becker's Hospital Review, April 27, 2017: Rebooting Patient Safety: 7 Questions with the Leaders of IHI and NPSF
  With the new merge effective May 1, both IHI CEO, Derek Feeley, and NPSF CEO, Tejal Gandhi, spoke to Becker's Hospital Review in April about the merger, what drew them to the patient safety field and what they hope their organization can achieve in the future.
• Becker's Hospital Review, April 25, 2017: 4 Ways Healthcare Providers Can Fight The Opioid Crisis Locally
  If the United States is to successfully curb the rates of opioid abuse among its citizenry, providers will play a crucial role in facilitating such progress. Mara Laderman, a senior research associate with IHI, and Lindsay Martin, a member of the improvement and innovation faculty with IHI, published an article in NEJM Catalyst that addressed the ways in which healthcare providers can fight the opioid crisis.
• Next Avenue, April 19, 2017: Does Your Doctor Know What You Want?
  Age brings a greater risk of diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes and stroke. Does your doctor know what’s important to you? Does he or she know what you want from your health care? Has your physician ever asked? And if so, did the doctor listen to your answer?
• Becker's Hospital Review, April 19, 2017: How Geisinger is Using 'Nusing Bundles' to Improve Patient Satisfactioin: 4 Takeaways
  A "nursing bundle" consists of three to five evidence-based practices for nurses to consistently execute. Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System implemented a "nursing bundle" in an effort to streamline the patient experience and improve satisfaction, according to a case study published on NEJM Catalyst.
• Forbes, April 19, 2017: How Health Systems Can Provide Better Care For Seniors
  Last year, the influential John A. Hartford Foundation, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and the American Hospital Association kicked off an initiative called Age-Friendly Health Systems. Their aim is to install a very different model of care in 1,000 hospitals by 2020.
• EMS1, April 13, 2017: What EMS Leaders Need to Know About Unconscious Bias
  Understanding your unconscious biases will make hiring decisions, disciplinary choices, relationships and clinical care more equitable.
• The East Carolinian, April 10, 2017: Vidant Health Makes Two-Year Commitment to Achieve Health Equity
  Vidant Health has committed itself to a two-year initiative to pursue equity within the medical world through the help of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
• Fierce Healthcare, April 04, 2017: 9 Healthcare Systems Join Forces with IHI to Reduce Healthcare Inequalities
  9 Healthcare Systems Join Forces with IHI to Reduce Healthcare Inequalities
• Bekcer's Hospital Review, April 03, 2017: 9 Health Systems Sign on to Advance Health Equity with IHI
  On Monday, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement launched Pursuing Equity, a two-year initiative to reduce health and healthcare access inequities, with nine health systems spread across the nation signing on to participate.
• All Africa, March 28, 2017: Ethiopia: Transforming Healthcare Quality Service
  Ethiopia's national document, the Health Sector Development Programme (HSDP) is developed to transform healthcare quality. The ultimate aim of the National Strategy is to consistently ensure and improve the outcomes of clinical care, patient safety and patient-centeredness while increasing access and equity for all segments of society. This editorial describes the ways in which Ethiopia is transforming healthcare quality service.
• Hospital & Health Networks, March 27, 2017: The Future of Age-friendly Care
  As the baby boomer generation ages, health systems face the challenge of providing adequate care to this growing demographic. The John A. Hartford Foundation, Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the American Hospital Association, along with other partners, have launched an Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative to meet the complex needs of aging adults. This new initiative, designed to meet the needs of seniors, could be in 1,000 care sites by 2020.
• Becker's Hospital Review, March 24, 2017: How Healthy is Your Emergency Department
  Kirk B. Jensen, M.D., MBA, a faculty member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Boston and chair of IHI's collaborative on Improving Flow in the Acute Care Setting and Operational and Clinical Improvement in the ED, believes when matching your staffing capabilities or capacity to demand, all EDs reach an inflection point.
• Hospitals & Health Networks, March 14, 2017: When Violence Savages American Communities: Important Lessons for Hospitals
  This is the first in a yearlong series of articles in which H&HN Senior Writer Marty Stempniak will focus on crucial lessons from hospitals that have responded to the epidemic of violence plaguing our nation. Stempniak will examine mass casualty events like those that occurred in Orlando, Fla., and Dallas, as well as the seemingly intractable day-to-day cycle of violence the afflicts too many American neighborhoods.
• Modern Healthcare, March 13, 2017: National Patient Safety Foundation and Institute for Healthcare Improvement to Merge in May
  Two prominent advocates of improving patient safety, the National Patient Safety Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, will join forces and become one organization as of May 1, 2017. CEOs Derek Feeley and Tejal Gandhi share the reasons behind the merge.
• Hospitals & Health Networks, March 13, 2017: IHI, National Patient Safety Foundation Announce Plans to Merge
  Two influential Boston-area groups say that patient safety movement is due for a reboot. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement said that it will combine forces with the National Patient Safety Foundation, effective on May 1. As a part of the merge announcement, the NPSF released a public health call that inolves six steps to respond to the current state of preventable adverse events in health care.
• Health Leaders Media, March 13, 2017: IHI, NPSF to Merge, 'Re-energize' Patient Safety Agenda
  Two organizations that have played major roles in promoting quality healthcare are merging, according to a joint announcement Monday from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the National Patient Safety Foundation. IHI CEO Derek Feeley will lead the combined organizations, which together are calling for a "coordinated system-wide effort geared at providing safe care delivery across all aspects of care."
• Fierce Healthcare, March 13, 2017: IHI and NPSF Will Merge to Drive Nationwide Patient Safety Efforts
  Two leading patient safety organizations have agreed to join forces to accelerate efforts to improve patient and workforce safety initiatives. The IHI and the NPSF will merge on May 1, the organizations announced Monday to kickoff Patient Safety Awareness Week. The organizations believe that together they will have a stronger impact on the patient safety movement
• Fierce Healthcare, March 07, 2017: Healthcare Leaders Stress Value of ACA's Push for Innovation
  Though much of the debate around a Republican-led effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has centered around insurance and reforms to the law’s coverage mandates, for providers some of the biggest, and best, changes came from the law’s push for payment and delivery innovation. IHI's Don Berwick shares his views on the ACA's dual themes: offering more and better health insurance and innovating care delivery.
• Healthcare Informatics, March 06, 2017: Health System Leaders Issue Statement in Support of Medicaid Expansion, Gains Made Under the ACA
  Leaders of several prominent health systems gathered in Washington, D.C. for a panel discussion about protecting innovation and coverage amid reports Republican U.S. lawmakers expect to unveil this week the text of long-awaited legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
• Medpage Today, March 03, 2017: Ex-CMS Chief Berwick 'Angry' at Threats to Gut ACA
  Don Berwick is president emeritus and senior fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for 17 months until December 2011. During two one-hour interviews, Berwick addressed critics of the Affordable Care Act and his part in the problem-plagued launch of Obamacare.
• The Wall Street Journal, March 03, 2017: Health Care Needs a Better System for Importing Ideas From Abroad
  WSJ Health Expert David Blumenthal says the U.S. is not taking advantage of health-care delivery innovations around the world. With political winds changing the U.S. health-care system, it's tempting to look inward, rather than outward for solutions. However, this will mean that opportunities may be lost to learn from innovations abroad.
• Becker's Hospital Review, March 02, 2017: 'Never Words': 7 Phrases Clinicians Should Avoid with Cancer Patients
  The old saying goes, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." But that saying isn't always true, especially when it comes to patient-clinician interactions, according to IHI senior fellow Len Berry, PhD.
• The Pharmaceutical Journal, February 28, 2017: Q&A: Invest in Safety and Make Savings Overall - Interview with Don Berwick
  Don Berwick, president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, as well as author of the 2013 report which looked at patient safety in the NHS after the Mid Staffordshire Hospital scandal speaks to Jenny Bryan to share his thoughts on whether progress has been made.
• KPBS, February 28, 2017: Doctor Who Helped Shape Obamacare Warns of Drop in Quality of Care if Law is Scrapped
  Don Berwick, the doctor who helped shape Obamacare, warns of drop in quality of care if the law is scrapped. Read his interview here.
• Kevin MD, February 23, 2017: Perioperative Brain Health: The Need to Better Understand This Public Health Problem
  In order to obtain traction on the issue of perioperative brain health, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) convened a multi-stakeholder group including specialty societies who care for elderly patients undergoing surgery, payers, public advocacy groups, and federal funders under the umbrella of a Perioperative Brain Health Initiative.
• Kevin MD, February 20, 2017: Place Emotional Harms On Par with Physical Ones
  In 2007, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) adopted the audacious aim of eliminating all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. While the organization has not yet achieved perfection in this area, the bold goal has catalyzed substantial advancement in patient safety at the organization. Kenneth Sands, MD, chief quality officer of BIDMC and colleagues described this courageous approach and their patient safety efforts at a presentation at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Forum in December.
• Healthcare IT News, February 10, 2017: Allscripts CEO Paul Black: 3 Health IT Trends to Watch in 2017
  The shift to true value-based care is moving full-steam ahead. Leadership within the healthcare industry is focused on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim – higher quality, lower costs and better outcomes – and increasing the number of models aimed at reaching those goals.
• Kevin MD , February 09, 2017: Don't Repeal the ACA Without a Replacement
  Though health care is undergoing unprecedented evolution, our fundamental mission to serve remains steadfast. The core tenants that must guide health care reform are simple and bipartisan, outlined in the Triple Aim of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI): Improve access to health care, improve the quality of care, and decrease overall costs.
• NEJM Catalyst, February 07, 2017: Lessons in Leadership: Howard Green
  This story was recorded at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 28th Annual National Forum in Orlando, Florida, on December 4–7, 2016 by Mary Jane Kornacki on behalf of NEJM Catalyst. Howard Green, MD, Chief of Anesthesiology at Winchester Medical Center in Virginia, recalls his experience of leadership in action while in the Marine Corps — and lessons that have stayed with him for more than 3 decades.
• Next Avenue, February 06, 2017: Making Sure Our Longer Lives Are Healthy Ones
  Here are just three of the innovations emerging from the imperative presented by the Triple Aim (patient satisfaction, better health of populations and lower per capita cost of health care), a model by the nonprofit Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• Becker's Hospital Review, January 31, 2017: Four Things Trump Should Consider Before Dismantling Obamacare
  The healthcare system is undergoing a generational shift through an approach the Institute for Healthcare Improvement calls the Triple Aim—improving patient experience, improving health and cutting the per capita cost of care. Here are four things Trump should consider before dismantling Obamacare.
• Health Leaders Media, January 31, 2017: IHI: This Way to Patient Safety
  A paper from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement offers strategies aimed at advancing patient safety via leadership, teamwork, negotiation, and transparency.
• Daytona Times, January 26, 2017: Halifax Health Doctors' Research Recognized at International Forum
  The research of top physicians in the Halifax Health – Family Medicine Residency Program was recognized at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) 28th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care held in December in Orlando.
• Hospitals & Health Networks Online, December 15, 2016: Lessons One Orlando Hospital Learned From the Deadliest Mass Shooting in U.S. History
  This article describes the incredible story behind Orlando Health's response to the Pulse Nightclub shooting in June, 2016. A panel of six members of that team delivered an emotional and inspiring keynote last week at IHI's 28th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare.
• HealthLeaders Online, December 12, 2016: Complex Care 'Playbook' Addresses Medical, Social Needs
  Drafted at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, The Playbook: Better Care for People with Complex Needs compiles and shares examples of successful approaches to care, guidance on making the business case for these models, and opportunities for policy and payment reform.
• Orlando Sentinel Online, December 11, 2016: Orlando Health Nurse: 'I know what love is, because I was there that night'
  The team at Orlando Health urged attendees of IHI's 28th Annual National Forum to develop and practice emergency response plans. "We can't encourage you enough, if you don't have a plan, you need to make one," said Dr. Michael Cheatham, chief surgical quality officer at Orlando Health, during a keynote talk at the annual meeting in Orlando. "Practice, practice, practice so you're ready with patients need you."
• Hospitals & Health Networks, December 09, 2016: Don Berwick: 8 Ways to Shift the Power Back to Patients
  The next frontier for health care is giving more control to consumers, the former CMS head says during his keynote address at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Forum.
• Philanthropy News Digest, December 09, 2016: U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients, Survey Finds
  Developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, The Playbook: Better Care for People With Complex Needs shares case studies, issue briefs, and reference guides detailing promising and successful approaches to serving patients with complex needs, the business case for such models, and opportunities for policy and payment reform.
• FierceHealthcare, December 09, 2016: IHI 2016: Retail Health and Its Role in Primary Care, Population Health
  Though some providers view may retail clinics as a threat, “we see ourselves as a safety net for primary care,” Angela Patterson, chief nurse practitioner officer, MinuteClinic and vice president, CVS Health, told attendees at a session during the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 28th annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare in Orlando, Florida.
• POLITICO Online, December 09, 2016: How to better care for America's most complex patients? Five foundations team up for answers
  The foundations — the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Peterson Center on Healthcare, RWJF, The SCAN Foundation and The Commonwealth Fund — partnered with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to identify tactics to treat America's heaviest utilizers of health care.
• News Ghana, December 08, 2016: A Quality Strategy on National Healthcare Launched
  Dr Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey, Executive Director of Institute for Health Care Improvement , Africa Region, said the country did not have a unified strategy to streamline the health system and that the policy would integrate all the pieces of policies under the Ministry’s agencies.
• Becker's Hospital Review, December 08, 2016: Redefining patient safety in 2017 - 6 thoughts from IHI CEO Derek Feeley
  Even though much progress was made in terms of patient safety in 2016, there is still much more work to be done in 2017 and beyond, according to Derek Feeley, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• Fierce Healthcare, December 07, 2016: IHI 2016: Orlando Health looks back at Pulse shooting and how hospitals can prepare for the worst
  Orlando Health’s message to the attendees of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 28th annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare in Orlando, Florida: If you don’t have a disaster plan, make one. And then practice that plan over and over again.
• Becker's ASC Review Online, December 07, 2016: Institute for Healthcare Improvement CEO delivers keynote on improving quality: 5 highlights
  Derek Feeley, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, delivered the keynote at the 28th annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care in Orlando, Fla., held from Dec. 4 to Dec. 7, 2016.
• Fierce Healthcare, December 06, 2016: IHI 2016: 4 Main Drivers to reduce opioid use in the U.S.
  Two members of IHI's Innovation Team have identified four drivers to limit opioid use in the United States: Limit the supply, raise awareness of the risk, identify and manage the population, and treat opioid-addicted individuals.
• Hospitals & Health Networks, December 06, 2016: Video: Principles of Quality and Patient Safety Don't Change Under a Trump Administration, Says Don Berwick
  Don Berwick sounded an optimistic note on the future regarding the effort to improve quality and patient safety, in an interview with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's president emeritus and senior fellow at the IHI 2016 National Forum.
• Modern Healthcare, November 17, 2016: Now you can get a PhD in healthcare quality and safety
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has the Open School, which combines online education, guided projects, and community and chapter networks to build core skills in improvement, safety, system design, and leadership. It has 824 chapters in 85 countries, and more than 80,000 students and residents have earned its basic certificate in quality and safety.
• Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, November 16, 2016: Safety Work in a Rut? Try Changing Your Perspective
  Rallying efforts to push toward building a more holistic safety system requires focus on two key safety perspectives that can help patients throughout and beyond time spent in a health care organization, according to safety thought leaders Carol Haraden, PhD, vice president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and Allan Frankel, MD, principal of Safe and Reliable Healthcare.
• NY Mag, November 15, 2016: A Mad Doctor and a 19th Century Medical Mystery Were Still Learning From Today
  One of the pioneers of the new movement of “evidence-based medicine” is the pediatrician Don Berwick, who co-founded the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston.
• Patient Safety Net, November 11, 2016: In Conversation With... Derek Feeley
  Mr. Feeley is President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), probably the most influential organization of its kind.
• Becker's Hospital Review, November 10, 2016: 4 ways to sustain your healthcare organization's improvements
  According to a whitepaper from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement studying well-performing healthcare organizations achieving high improvement results, change is maintained through strong engagement and standardized frontline management.
• Harvard Business Review, November 09, 2016: 4 Steps to Sustaining Improvements in Health Care
  To learn how to build systems that sustain improvement, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement studied health care organizations that were able to achieve standout results and then build on them — organizations such as Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City; Saskatoon Health Region in Saskatchewan, Canada; and Virginia Mason Health System in Seattle.
• Chronicle-Independent Online, November 08, 2016: Flip or Flop: Creating a healthier Kershaw County
  The event featured three speakers: Dr. Soma Stout, Executive Lead for Health Improvement at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Laura Brennan, co-chair of 100 Million Healthier Lives and director of Pathway to Pacesetter; and Holly Hayes, principal investigator for LiveWell Kershaw and research associate with USC’s Arnold School of Public Health.
• Ghana News Agency, November 07, 2016: Ministry-of-Health-engages-patient-groups-on-health-care-policy
  The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Ubora Institute and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, have engaged patient groups to solicit their views towards the development of National Healthcare Quality Strategy.
• Modern Healthcare Online, November 07, 2016: Commentary: Why can't our EHRs be more like smartphones
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Leadership Alliance, a collaboration of major healthcare organizations, recently convened representatives from industry, government, consumers and healthcare systems to consider some new principles for EHR redesign.
• Health Affairs, November 03, 2016: Age-Friendly Health Systems: How Do We Get There?
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, along with more than two dozen leading experts in health care redesign for the geriatric population will be tasked with synthesizing the critical elements of previous geriatric models of care and testing the new Age-Friendly approach in a number of health systems.
• Next Avenue, October 26, 2016: How We Choose the Influencers in Aging
  Jennie Chin Hansen, board member at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is named one of the 2016 Influencers in Aging Advisory Panel.
• Medscape, October 25, 2016: What Hospitals Need to Know About Accountable Care Organizations
  By offering rewards for meeting the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's "triple aim," providers associated with ACOs share in the financial risk of providing healthcare to defined populations.
• Stanford Social Innovation Review, October 20, 2016: Many Ways to Many
  This article details methods of orchestrating networked learning and features the Breakthrough Series Collaborative, invented by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, as one of those effective methods.
• The Fast Track, October 18, 2016: Steve Spear on Process Improvement - Avoid Zombie-Like Thinking
  Steve Spear, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, gives advice on how to accomplish process improvement within the workplace.
• EMS1, October 14, 2016: Are EMS Leaders Worth What They Cost?
  This article recognizes the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Model for Improvement as standards on which to base improvement practices, applicable to EMS systems.
• Standford Social Innovation Review Blog, October 11, 2016: This is Not Your Grandfather's Coalition (SSIR)
  This article recognizes the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's contribution to the creation of the collabortive model for creating social change.
• Common Good Vermont Blog, October 04, 2016: Leap of Reason Update: Sacred Gift of Labor and Love
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), one of the most respected drivers of innovation in the field of improvement science, is pushing a deceptively simple concept that we believe is relevant not just for healthcare institutions but for other nonprofits. The concept is joy.
• Fort Collins Coloradoan Online, October 03, 2016: Advanced planning, living wills help families with end-of-life care
  This article highlights the importance of discussing end-of-life care all throughout life. According to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement more than 90 percent of people think it’s important to talk about end-of-life care, fewer than 30 percent actually do.
• HealthLeaders Media, October 01, 2016: Reducing diagnostic errors: a look at how healthcare organizations are working to improve diagnostic accuracy
  Don Goldmann, MD, chief medical and scientific officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, agrees that clinicians are moving too fast these days, leaving the opportunity for diagnostic errors.
• Tallahassee Democrat Online, September 30, 2016: End-of-Life Discussions Are Necessary
  This article highlights the Conversation project, a campaign to help more people recognize the importance of talking about end-of-life care, and give them the tools and resources to do so. The Conversation Project was started by Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist from the Boston Globe, who in retirement has been working with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement on making the conversation more inviting.

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• 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.
• April 21, 2017: IHI Summit Convenes Health Improvers, Health Care Professionals, and Community Change Agents in Orlando
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a leader in health and health care improvement worldwide, kicked off its 18th Annual Summit on Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice & the Community, April 20-22 in Orlando, Florida. Against the backdrop of ongoing uncertainty in the US health care sector, hundreds of motivated health improvers, health care professionals, and community change agents are gathered at this year’s Summit to take stock of progress with new, more integrated patient care models and to co-create solutions to new challenges.
• April 03, 2017: Pursuing Equity Launch Announcement
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) kicked off a two-year initiative, Pursuing Equity, that aims to reduce inequities in health and health care access, treatment, and outcomes by implementing comprehensive strategies to create and sustain equitable health systems. Nine health care organizations—diverse in size, geography, and patient populations served—will work with IHI and learn from one another.
• March 13, 2017: IHI and National Patient Safety Foundation Agree to Merger
  Recognizing that patient safety is a public health issue in need of fresh, robust approaches and constant focus for health care systems today, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) announce plans for a merger, effective May 1, 2017.
• February 16, 2017: IHI Summit 2017: Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice and the Community
  The IHI Summit will feature more than 800 health improvers, health care professionals, and community change agents gathering to energize one another, co-create solutions to similar challenges, and gain practical solutions for transformative change across health and health care.
• February 01, 2017: Statement from IHI in Response to Trump Administration’s Executive Order on Immigration
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) shares the widespread concern about the White House’s January 27, 2017, executive order restricting immigration from specific countries. We fear that it has consequences that run counter to our long-held organizational values, most notably inclusion, equity, diversity, generosity, and that above all, “people matter.”
• December 06, 2016: Safety, Equity, and Improvement Science Take Center Stage at 28th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care
  In his first National Forum keynote as President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Derek Feeley focused on a topic that has been central to the organization’s mission and work since its founding -- patient safety and the necessity for all health care systems to remain focused on reducing harm.
• October 04, 2016: Join IHI for 28th Annual National Forum
  The 28th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care will bring together 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 to share best approaches to improve the health and health care of patients and communities.