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• Targeting Patient Transitions to Reduce Readmissions
  The transition that takes a patient from the hospital to their home or another care setting marks a pivotal care moment. Zeroing in on what happens during this critical juncture, with the support of IHI’s STAAR initiative, has helped the Ohio Hospital Association make significant progress in its aim to reduce hospital readmissions by 20 percent within two years.
• The IHI Triple Aim: Changing Care and Communities
  A simple question from an Allegiance Health board member upended the way this Michigan-based hospital and health system cares for patients. With a renewed focus on improving health (rather than merely maintaining it) by engaging community stakeholders in their efforts, Allegiance credits its participation in the IHI Triple Aim initiative for providing the necessary framework and shared learning for their work.
• Big Results for Louisiana's Smallest Patients
  When the OB nurses at Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge noticed full-term births were becoming disturbingly rare, they took action. Their commitment to make a difference eventually helped decrease the hospital's NICU admissions by 23 percent, and informed a statewide birthing initiative that has made Louisiana a leader in perinatal care.
• Profiles in Improvement: Frank Federico, Executive Director, IHI
  IHI's Frank Federico talks about his early work as a pharmacist to improve medication safety, and his current role at IHI working with teams around the world to implement proven best practices in patient safety.
• A Region Bands Together for Quality Improvement
  Ko Awatea, a new learning center in Auckland, New Zealand, that opened in June 2011, is a partnership between IHI and Counties Manukau District Health Board to establish a Quality and Innovation Center for the region.
• Profiles in Improvement: Katharine Luther, Vice President, IHI
  IHI Vice President Kathy Luther describes her career in health care quality improvement, and how her current IHI work includes getting finance and clinicians to work together to impact cost and quality.
• No Opportunity to Die
  A skilled, assertive, and passionate young community health nurse has over three years declared, deployed, and secured a zero tolerance policy for maternal and neonatal mortality at a subdistrict health post in Ghana’s Central region.
• A Coalition Pursues the IHI Triple Aim
  Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland, was one of 15 organizations chosen to prototype IHI’s Triple Aim, which seeks to transform health systems by simultaneously pursuing three aims: enhancing the experience of individual patients, improving the health of a population, and reducing the cost of care.
• A Team Gives Mobility to Ventilated Patients
  Patients in critical care are usually kept immobile and heavily sedated, but there’s growing evidence that mobility can help a patient's long-term recovery.
• Improvement Tip: "Quality" Is Not a Department
  Robert Lloyd, Executive Director of Performance Improvement at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, offers some tips for improving quality within your organization.