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• New York Times, January 24, 2023: Emailing Your Doctor May Carry a Fee
  This article discusses the practice of physicians charging fees for medical correspondence with patients. IHI's President and CEO Kedar Mate is quoted encouraging patient-clinician interactions and discussing how charging for medical messaging could exacerbate inequities.
• New York Times, January 19, 2023: How to Make a Caregiving Plan (So It's Ready When You Need It)
  This article provides numerous resources for creating a caregiving plan, including information and a link to IHI's The Conversation Project.
• Health Europa, January 17, 2023: Meeting the Needs of the Healthcare Workforce
  This is article is a Q&A with IHI Vice President Pedro Delgado discussing current workforce challenges for the health care sector, IHI's Joy in Work framework, and health equity.
• ED Management, January 06, 2023: Effectively Intervening with Patients Facing Housing Instability
  This article includes commentary from IHI's Catherine Mather and discusses IHI's work with Community Solutions and CommonSpirit Health’s CHI Memorial Hospital regarding housing instability.
• The Hill, January 05, 2023: Health Care Sector Decarbonization to Accelerate in 2023 - How to Do it Best
  This is an opinion piece that lists IHI as one of the organizations dedicating resources to decarbonizing the health care sector.
• HFMA, January 02, 2023: Reimagining the Patient-Caregiver Relationship
  This article includes insights from health care leaders, including IHI's COO Cynthia Barginere, who discussed the impact that redesign can have on joy in work, in particular how human factors design can be used to ensure that technology is implemented in a way that supports staff rather than stymies them.
• STAT, December 28, 2022: How Value-Based Payments to Clinicians Can Help Close Equity Gaps
  This is a contributed article by Andrew Dreyfuss, former CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, which mentions BCBSMA's work with IHI to improve health equity in the Commonwealth.
• Boston Globe, December 15, 2022: State's Largest Insurer to Start Paying Providers to Address Health Care Disparities
  This article reports on Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' plans to incentivize providers and hospitals to improve health equity and reduce disparaties. IHI's work with BCBSMA are cited.
• AHRQ Blog, December 13, 2022: In Pandemic's Wake, We Must Recommit to Patient and Workforce Safety
  This blog post is a call to action to recommit to the National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety, and cites IHI as a co-chair of the steering committee that authored the National Action Plan.
• HealthLeaders, December 12, 2022: IHI Forum - Berwick Says 'One of the Problems in Healthcare is Greed'
  This article recaps the closing keynote address at the IHI Forum 2022 from IHI President Emeritus and Senior Fellow Don Berwick.
• Fierce Healthcare, December 12, 2022: IHI Forum - Don Berwick Calls Out Greed, Rallies Industry to Protest Monetization of Healthcare
  This article recaps the closing keynote address at the IHI Forum 2022 from IHI President Emeritus and Senior Fellow Don Berwick.
• CNN, December 08, 2022: Home Delivery of Medications Can Help Improve Access, Especially When Time is Tight
  This article discusses innovative approaches to improving access to care. IHI President and CEO Kedar Mate was interviewed for this piece, and his commentary was used as the closing paragraphs.
• American Journal of Managed Care, December 07, 2022: IHI Announces National Coalition Aiming for Systemic Change in Health Equity
  This article reports on the announcement made at the IHI Forum 2022 of the formation of Rise to Health: A National Coalition for Equity in Health Care.
• Kaiser Health News, December 07, 2022: To Beat Health Care Inequity and Bias, AMA and IHI Form Coalition
  This article reports on the announcement made at the IHI Forum 2022 of the formation of Rise to Health: A National Coalition for Equity in Health Care.
• Rama on Healthcare, December 06, 2022: New Coalition to Focus on Equity in Health Care
  This article reports on the announcement made at the IHI Forum 2022 of the formation of Rise to Health: A National Coalition for Equity in Health Care.
• Fierce Healthcare, December 06, 2022: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, AMA Lead New Cross-Stakeholder Coalition to Improve Equity
  This article reports on the announcement made at the IHI Forum 2022 of the formation of Rise to Health: A National Coalition for Equity in Health Care.
• Becker's Hospital Review, December 06, 2022: IHI Starts National Coalition for Equity in Healthcare with AMA, Race Forward
  This article reports on the announcement made at the IHI Forum 2022 of the formation of Rise to Health: A National Coalition for Equity in Health Care.
• HealthLeaders, December 05, 2022: IHI Forum - Leadership Pivotal in Implementing Joy in Work Initiatives
  This article reports on the learnings of a Joy in Work workshop conducted at the IHI Forum 2022.
• HealthLeaders, December 05, 2022: IHI Forum - Massachusetts General Hospital Makes Health Equity Progress
  This article highlights the progress Massachusetts General Hospital has made to advance health equity, as detailed during a session at IHI Forum 2022.
• Modern Healthcare, November 22, 2022: 5 Things HHS Says Hospitals can do to Reduce Emissions
  This article reports on the recently released AHRQ/IHI primer on how health systems can reduce carbon emissions.
• WGBH TV, October 24, 2022: Racism in Healthcare was Exposed by the Pandemic - How to Improve
  Dr. Kedar Mate, President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, spoke with host Jim Braude about health inequities and possible solutions. He also talked about physician burnout, staffing shortages and the stigma around mental illness in the medical community.
• US News & World Report, October 18, 2022: Essential Questions to Ask a Nursing Home
  This article aims to help individuals find the right nursing home for themselves or a loved one and includes commentary and advice from IHI's Alice Bonner.
• Healthcare Innovation, September 29, 2022: Grants to Help Massachusetts Health Systems Reduce Disparities
  This article reports on the grants that IHI issued, in conjunction with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massahusetts, to fund 12 health systems' efforts to reduce health disparaties in Massachusetts.
• Seasons, September 28, 2022: ‘The Conversation Project’ Provides Tools for Talking About End-of-Life Care
  This article summarizes the history of The Conversation Project and the tools and resources it has created to facilitate discusssions about end-of-life care and planning.
• HealthLeaders, September 27, 2022: Institute for Healthcare Improvement Boosts Health Equity Efforts
  This article highlights the launch of IHI's third iteration of Pursuing Equity and includes quotes from HealthParters, which participated in a previous iteration of the program.
• American Nurse, September 11, 2022: Solutions to the Nurse Staffing Challenge
  This article highlights the work of Partners for Nurse Staffing - a consortium of five major organizations including IHI - to address nurse staffing challenges.
• STAT, August 25, 2022: "So Much More to Do": A Hospital System’s Campaign to Confront Racism — and Resistance to Change — Makes Early Strides
  This article focuses on Mass General Brigham's efforts to improve health equity and eliminate disparaties in their health system, dating back to IHI's first Pursuing Equity initiative in 2017. IHI's President and CEO Kedar Mate is quoted throughout the article, and leaders from WellSpan, another Pursuing Equity participant, are also quoted.
• HealthData Management, August 25, 2022: How Patient Safety Incident Reporting Improves Care
  This article focuses on how improved incident reporting can increase patient safety. Information from IHI is cited about the importance of focusing on the harm, not the error, when an incident occurs.
• August 18, 2022: How Patient-Centered Care Plays a Big Role in Burgeoning Nursing Home, Hospital Relationships
  This article about the importance of patient-driven collaboration between nursing homes and hospitals highlights the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement and 4Ms Framework.
• New York Times, August 16, 2022: Pain in Children is Often Ignored — For Children of Color, It’s Even Worse
  This article discusses racial disparities in pediatric pain treatment and quotes Dr. Ron Wyatt, IHI Senior Fellow. He said that false beliefs about biological differences between Black people and white people, dating back to slavery, have had lasting effects on how people of color are treated in medical settings.
• Becker's Hospital Review, August 10, 2022: Hospitals' Uncomfortably High Tolerance for Errors
  This article quotes IHI's Patricia McGaffigan on the importance of a whole systems approach to patient safety, coupled with a healthy work environment and positive safety culture, to avoid repeating medical errors.
• Modern Healthcare, July 05, 2022: As the Alzheimer’s Crisis Looms, Healthcare Organizations Look to Innovation
  This article summarizes the work of the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative, including a grant-funded project by IHI, and includes quotes from Alice Bonner, IHI's Senior Advisor for Aging.
• Healthcare Executive, July 01, 2022: Opening More Doors
  This cover story examines how health care organizations will tackle the ongoing work of ensuring access to care for their most vulnerable patients even after the COVID-19 pandemic wanes. Commentary from IHI President & CEO Kedar Mate is used extensively throughout the piece.
• WBUR, May 27, 2022: Smarter Health - How AI is Transforming Health Care
  This is a segment and trascript from a new OnPoint series about Smarter Health. IHI's President and CEO Kedar Mate was interviewed and is quoted in this episode highlighting the dire need for health care system reform, and defining three ways in which the public thinks about health care quality today.
• HealthLeaders, May 23, 2022: Urgent Call Made to Improve Patient Safety
  This article reports on the Safety Declaration introduced at IHI Congress 2022 and quotes IHI's Patricia McGaffigan throughout the piece. Multiple links to the National Action Plan for Patient Safety are included in the article.
• Nurse, May 19, 2022: Five Healthcare Organizations Launch Nurse Staffing Think Tank To Tackle Unsafe Staffing
  This article discusses the Nurse Staffing Think Tank formed by five health care organizations, including IHI.
• Healthcare Innovation, May 18, 2022: Organizations Urge Addressing Patient and Workforce Safety From Total Systems Approach
  This article reports on the Safety Declaration that was introduced at IHI Congress 2022, calling on health leaders to implement the National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety.
• Becker's Hospital Review, May 17, 2022: CDC, CMS and Others Call for Urgent Action on Patient Safety
  This article reports on the news from IHI's press release about the Declaration to Advance Patient Safety, which was introduced at IHI Congress 2022 by IHI and members of the National Steering Committee on Patient Safety.
• Generations Today, May 11, 2022: Might the COVID-19 Pandemic Lead to Better Practices in Long Term Care
  This article in Generations Today, which is the publication of the American Society on Aging, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on long term care and mentions the IHI and John A. Hartford Foundation's Rapid Response Network for Nursing Homes.
• Becker's Hospital Review, May 05, 2022: 6 Strategies to Address Nursing Shortages in the Next 18 Months
  This article highlights the work of the Nurse Staffing Think Tank, of which IHI is a part, and recommendations to address nursing shortages in the short term.
• Fort Worth Report, April 25, 2022: Should Medical Errors be Criminalized - This Fort Worth Medical School Offers Another Way
  This article discusses IHI's CPPS certification in the context of the recent criminalization of medical error in the RaDonda Vaught case and highlights Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine’s (TCOM) leadership with regard to making the CPPS certification a requirement for their medical students.
• Governing, April 11, 2022: A Major Effort to Link Homeless Response and Health Care
  This article highlights the work of Community Solutions, one of IHI's Strategic Partners, and how it has used IHI's improvement methods to help end homelessness. IHI Vice President Ninon Lewis is quoted throughout the article.
• Fierce Healthcare, April 04, 2022: RaDonda Vaught Conviction Should be 'Wake-up Call' for Health Systems on Transparency, Harm Prevention Efforts
  This article summarizes the case of nurse RaDonda Vaught, who was criminally convicted for a medical error, and quotes heavily from the statement issued by IHI and the IHI Lucian Leape Institute about the risks to patient safety when medical errors are criminalized.
• Thrive Global, April 01, 2022: Joy as an Antidote to Burnout
  This article discusses how joy can reduce professional burnout and cites IHI's Joy in Work white paper, and quotes IHI President Emeritus Don Berwick.
• Becker's Hospital Review, March 31, 2022: Nurse's Conviction Should be Wake-Up Call for Health System Leaders, IHI Says
  This article recaps the statement issued by IHI and the IHI Lucian Leape Institute about the risks to patient safety when medical errors are criminalized.
• Modern Healthcare, March 19, 2022: Healthcare Hall of Fame - Dr. Don Berwick
  This article announces that Dr. Donald Berwick, IHI Founder, President Emeritus, and Senior Fellow, was inducted into the Healthcare Hall of Fame, an honor bestowed by Modern Healthcare and the American College of Healthcare Executives.
• STAT, February 24, 2022: The Nation Hasn’t Made Much Progress on Health Equity - These Leaders Forged Ahead Anyway
  This article, including quotes from IHI's President & CEO Kedar Mate, highlights the challenges facing the health care system as it grapples with health equity, and the progress some organizations have made to foster improvements. Cone Health, which participated in IHI's Pursuing Equity initiative, is featured as a success story.
• HealthLeaders, February 24, 2022: Healthcare Workforce Rescue Package Targets Well-Being During Pandemic
  This article summarizes the 2022 Workforce Rescue Package, which IHI's Jessica Perlo contributed to, and the five key actions health leaders can take immediately to address workforce well-being.
• HealthLeaders, February 16, 2022: Quintuple Aim - Health Equity Added to Healthcare Improvement Directive
  This piece summarizes the “four essential steps to address health equity” as introduced in the JAMA Viewpoint article, coauthored by IHI's President & CEO Kedar Mate, about the Quintuple Aim.

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• December 06, 2022: IHI Forum Convenes with Call to Action for a System-wide Approach to Health Equity
  Dr. Kedar Mate, President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), kicked-off the IHI Forum 2022 today by calling for collective action to address health equity. He urged the audience of health and health care professionals to change the narrative around inequities, “to understand them not as inevitabilities, but as things that we can, in fact, improve. Inequity in American health care is not our destiny, equity is.”
• September 27, 2022: IHI Awards $16.5 Million in Grants from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to Improve Health Equity in Massachusetts
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has awarded $16.5 million in Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA)-funded grants to 12 health systems across Massachusetts. The grants will fund projects to improve equity of care and race, ethnicity, and language data collection practices.
• September 13, 2022: IHI Invites Health Systems to Participate in Learning Network, Action Community on Equity, Racial Justice in Health Care
  Building off the success and lessons of two previous Pursuing Equity cohorts dating back to 2017, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is now accepting applications for its new Pursuing Equity Learning Network and Action Community that will run from January 2023-June 2024. For the first time, engagement in Pursuing Equity will be free to participating teams thanks to a grant from Genentech, a member of the Roche Group.
• September 01, 2022: IHI Statement on Reproductive Justice
  The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the anti-choice laws taking effect in the wake of that decision threaten the health and safety of women, infants, and families. Protecting reproductive, maternal, and infant health is among the most vital things we do to achieve our mission of improving health and health care.
• July 19, 2022: IHI Celebrates 5000th Patient Safety Professional and Marks 10 Years of CPPS Program
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and IHI’s Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety (CBPPS) are pleased to announce that 5,000 health care professionals have earned the Certified Professional in Patient SafetyTM (CPPS) credential.
• May 19, 2022: IHI Adds Renowned Leaders in Patient Safety, Public Health to Board of Directors
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has added two new members to its Board of Directors. Rear Admiral retired Sylvia Trent-Adams has a legacy of work in federal service and public health and has served as Deputy Surgeon General and Acting Surgeon General. Beth Daley Ullem is a life-long patient safety advocate with deep expertise working with health system leaders and boards to improve the quality and safety of patient care.
• May 17, 2022: Health Leaders Urge Immediate Action on Patient and Workforce Safety
  Representatives from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) – three member organization of the IHI-convened National Steering Committee for Patient Safety (NSC) – discussed the importance of national level coordination to address patient and workforce safety across the continuum of care at the IHI Patient Safety Congress.
• May 13, 2022: Statement from IHI and LLI: RaDonda Vaught Sentencing
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the IHI Lucian Leape Institute (LLI) share our deepest sympathies with the family of Charlene Murphey for their tragic loss. While we are relieved that Ms. RaDonda Vaught did not receive a prison sentence, we remain disappointed and deeply concerned about the criminalization of error in medicine, which offers no remedy for improving patient safety. In fact, Ms. Vaught’s arrest and conviction makes patients less safe.
• April 12, 2022: 2022 DAISY Award Honors Extraordinary Nurses
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the DAISY Foundation today announced the recipients of the 2022 DAISY Award® for Extraordinary Nurses in Patient Safety.
• March 30, 2022: Statement from IHI and LLI About the Risks to Patient Safety When Medical Errors Are Criminalized
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the IHI Lucian Leape Institute have released a statement about the risks to patient safety when medical errors are criminalized.
• March 01, 2022: Age-Friendly Health Systems Movement Exceeds Scale and Impact Goals to Improve Care for Older Adults
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) announced that more than 2,700 care locations have been recognized as Age-Friendly Health Systems Participants, surpassing the movement’s goal 18-months ahead of schedule. More than 1.4 million older adults have received age-friendly care thanks to the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement since 2018.