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Profiles in Improvement: Dr. Pierre Barker, IHI Chief Global Partnerships and Programs Officer
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Dr. Pierre Barker, IHI Chief Global Partnerships and Programs Officer, describes some of IHI’s global work that is helping to improve health and health care worldwide.
Profiles in Improvement: Dr. Hema Magge, IHI Country Director, Ethiopia
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Dr. Hema Magge, IHI Country Director in Ethiopia, is leading a program to reduce maternal and newborn mortality in Ethiopia. IHI and its partners are supporting the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health in an ambitious agenda to rapidly close gaps in national health outcomes through the coordination of quality planning, quality assurance, and quality improvement.
Tanzania-Kenya Knowledge Exchange for the Partnership for HIV-Free Survival: Reflections and Recommendations
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This report describes best practices for scaling up prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, identified through the work of the Partnership for HIV-Free Survival, a six-country learning network across sub-Saharan Africa.
Can a Quality Improvement Project Impact Maternal and Child Health Outcomes at Scale in Northern Ghana?
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This paper discusses the impact of a scale-up phase of Project Fives Alive! to improve maternal and child health outcomes, which used quality improvement methods to identify barriers to care and care-seeking, and then identify, test, implement, and scale up simple and low-cost local solutions to address the barriers. The project and this approach demonstrated improved outcomes at scale.
WIHI: Nurturing Trust: Addiction and Maternal and Newborn Health
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June 2, 2016 | Addiction is always a complex challenge, but when a woman using substances is pregnant, suddenly two lives are at stake.
Healthy Shelby: A Triple Aim Improvement Story
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This Triple Aim improvement story examines the work of the Healthy Shelby Initiative in Tennessee, a community pursuing a regional focus to improve population health by linking public health, hospitals, health care providers, social service providers, academic institutions, the faith community, local government, and funders to work together to tackle some of the county’s most critical health problems: infant mortality, chronic disease management, and end-of-life care.
WIHI: Saving Lives by Design: Lessons for All from Ghana's Project Fives Alive!
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July 23, 2015 | One of the biggest ongoing challenges facing health and health care quality improvers is moving from small-scale successes to large-scale ones. That’s why it’s incredibly inspiring to learn from initiatives like Project Fives Alive! that are cracking the code.
Lessons Learned from Ghana's Project Fives Alive! A Practical Guide for Designing and Executing Large-Scale Improvement Initiatives
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How do you set up a large-scale improvement project for success? After seven years of rapidly and successfully scaling up high-impact maternal and child health interventions across Ghana using a quality improvement approach, the lessons learned from Project Fives Alive! are documented in this practical guide. Topics include project design, day-to-day project management and leadership, building QI capability, managing complex partner relationships, and deploying a core set of balanced metrics.
Profiles in Improvement: Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey, MD, MPH, IHI Director of Project Fives Alive!
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Dr. Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey, IHI Senior Technical Director for the Africa Region, talks about his work in Ghana with Project Fives Alive!, including the encouraging results they're seeing in reducing mortality of children under five years of age (work that is underpinned by strong technical leadership in QI), and IHI's growing portfolio of work in Africa.
Applying a Science-Based Method to Improve Perinatal Care: The IHI Perinatal Improvement Community
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This article explores the origins of and the early challenges faced by the IHI Perinatal Improvement Community, the work to reduce early elective deliveries and rates of cesarean sections, IHI’s overall approach to improvement, and the growing role of the IHI Triple Aim in improving perinatal care.
Profiles in Improvement: Nneka Mobisson-Etuk, MD, Executive Director of African Operations, IHI
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In this profile, Dr. Nneka Mobisson-Etuk describes her leadership of IHI's work in Africa, building on a near-decade of quality improvement work focused on maternal and child health, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, quality planning strategy, building improvement capability in the region, and other areas of focus.
Impact Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Intervention on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes in Northern Ghana: Early Assessment of a National Scale-up Project
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This study of the early phase of Project Fives Alive! to improve key maternal and child health outcomes in Ghana demonstrates that the quality improvement (QI) approach of testing and implementing simple, low-cost, locally-inspired changes has the potential to lead to improved health outcomes at scale both in Ghana and other low- and middle-income countries.
Using Quality Improvement Methods to Test and Scale Up a New National Policy on Early Post-natal Care in Ghana
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This initiative demonstrates the utility of a quality improvement (QI) approach in testing, implementing, and subsequent scaling up a national policy for early post-natal care in a resource-constrained setting, and provides a model to accelerate the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Ghana and other resource-poor countries.
Using a Campaign Approach Among Health Workers to Increase Access to Antiretroviral Therapy for Pregnant HIV-Infected Women in South Africa
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A campaign approach among health workers to improve access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV-infected pregnant women in two districts in South Africa shows a four-fold increase in HIV-infected women initiated on ART.
Effects of Quality Improvement in Health Facilities and Community Mobilization Through Women's Groups on Maternal, Neonatal, and Perinatal Mortality in Three Districts of Malawi
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A new article reports that community engagement combined with facility-based clinical QI had a dramatic effect on reducing neonatal mortality in Malawi.
A Nationwide Quality Improvement Project to Accelerate Ghana’s Progress Toward Millennium Development Goal Four
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The authors describe the successes to date of a rapid, national scale-up quality improvement intervention to accelerate the achievement of Millennium Development Goal Four (reduce maternal and infant mortality) in Ghana, based on IHI's work in Ghana as part of the Project Fives Alive! initiative.
How-to Guide: Prevent Obstetrical Adverse Events
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This How-to Guide describes the essentials elements of preventing obstetrical adverse events, including the safe use of oxytocin and key evidence-based care components in the IHI Perinatal Bundles.
Eliminating Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Will Require Major Improvements in Maternal and Child Health Services
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Researchers modelled how poor access to routine antenatal and postnatal health services contributes three times more to overall mother-to-child HIV transmission than do current suboptimal levels of delivery of anti-HIV-transmission interventions.
No Opportunity to Die
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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.
Profiles in Improvement: Dr. Nana Twum-Danso, IHI
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Nana A.Y. Twum-Danso, MD, MPH, the outgoing Executive Director for IHI African Operations, talks about emerging quality improvement work in Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa.
Profiles in Improvement: Early Care-Seeking: The St. Francis Xavier Hospital (Ghana) Approach
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In this video, Dr. Ernest Asiedu and his team describe the hospital’s approach to early care-seeking as part of the QI work to reduce mortality in children less than five years of age in Ghana.
Passport Exclusive: Providing Reliable Perinatal Care by Using Clinical Bundles
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In this video, Sue Leavitt-Gullo, MS, RN, Director for IHI, reviews providing reliable perinatal care through usings clinically proven bundles.
Profiles in Improvement: Dr. Chrysantus Kubio, West Gonja District, Ghana
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In this video profile, Dr. Kubio describes the importance of teamwork in quality improvement to reduce under-5 mortality in Ghana as part of Project Fives Alive!
Profiles in Improvement: Phoebe Balagumyetime, Jirapa District, Ghana
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The quality improvement skills and change ideas aquired from participation in Project Fives Alive! are helping health centre staff reduce mortality in children under 5 in Ghana.
Travels in Ghana, Part II: Visits to Four Project Fives Alive! Sites in the South
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In October 2010, the Project Fives Alive! team visited four hospitals in Ghana in four days to learn how quality improvement methods and implementation of change ideas are impacting their work to save the lives of children under five.
  
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