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• Conversations on Health Care, December 22, 2010: Community Health Care Presents Conversations on Healthcare
  Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Maureen Bisognano, president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, about advancing patient safety and quality while improving value and controlling cost.
• March 27, 2010: Selected Media Coverage 2010: Appointment of Don Berwick to Head CMS and of Maureen Bisognano to Head IHI
  Selected media coverage in 2010 on the appointment of IHI's former President and CEO Don Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and on Maureen Bisognano to become IHI's new President and CEO.
• HealthLeaders Media, December 27, 2010: 12 Ways to Reduce Hospital Readmissions
  In just 21 months from December 2010, the federal government will start penalizing hospitals with higher than expected readmission rates.
• US Dept. of Health & Human Services, December 07, 2010: How the Affordable Care Act is Improving the Quality of Care
  Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius delivered a keynote address at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 22nd Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Orlando, FL.
• HealthLeaders Media, December 02, 2010: What Disney Can Teach Hospitals
  There's a lot more talk about making hospitals work more like hotels and spas, and doctors more like maître d's in order to achieve patient-centered care.
• Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2010: The Doctor Will See You Eventually
  Of all the problems with the U.S. health-care system, one of the most vexing for patients is simply sitting in the doctor's waiting room.
• HealthLeaders Media, October 04, 2010: IHI Issues Guidelines for Managing Clinical Adverse Events
  In a white paper, entitled "Respectful Management of Serious Clinical Adverse Events", Conway and colleagues at IHI and the Harvard School of Public Health offer a way for providers to prepare.
• Holyrood Magazine, September 17, 2010: Safety First
  Improving patient safety by putting people at the center of their care.
• Indiana University, August 15, 2010: Uninsured Have Higher Death Rates
  Hosts Barbara Lewis, David Crabb, MD, Jeremy Shere, PhD, Kathy Miller, MD, and Steve Bogdewic, PhD, talk to physicians and researchers.
• The Boston Globe, July 19, 2010: Healing Ideas
  New leader, Maureen Bisognano, of Cambridge-based think tank (IHI) aims to make medical care safer and cheaper.
• The Boston Globe, July 14, 2010: A New Practice: The Doctor Will See You Today
  Patients in Worcester, MA are pleased with the ability to see their doctor the same day that they call for an appointment.
• Star Tribune, July 11, 2010: Improving Life for Nurses - and Patients
  Minnesota hospitals join a project aimed at trading "wasted" time for more patient time.
• Wall Street Journal, July 07, 2010: A New Leader for IHI as Don Berwick Leaves for CMS
  So who will fill Don Berwick’s shoes at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement now that he will be running Medicare and Medicaid?
• Fast Company, July 02, 2010: Summer Reading Picks
  Maureen Bisognano recommends some summer reading for those in the healthcare industry or simply for those looking for a good book.
• Wall Street Journal, July 02, 2010: Healthcare Workers Behaving Badly
  The topic of bad behavior in the health-care workplace was enough to draw more than 1,600 participants to a multimedia presentation by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
• The Boston Globe, June 21, 2010: Back in The Hospital Again
  If you get admitted to a hospital, chances are way too good that you’ll be back before long — maybe more than once.
• Boston.com, June 10, 2010: Lack of Insurance Tied to Higher Death Rates for Heart Attack, Stroke
  Working-age Americans hospitalized for a heart attack or a stroke were more likely to die if they were uninsured, a new national study from Boston reports.
• CNN.com, June 10, 2010: Uninsured More Likely to Die During Hospital Stay
  When uninsured patients are treated in the hospital for heart attack, stroke and pneumonia, they are more likely to die from the conditions during their hospital stay, a new study finds.
• Buffalo News, June 02, 2010: Taking a Bow for Bending Cost Curve
  The Buffalo, NY area is increasingly being seen as a national leader in something that matters much more to every person here: health care.
• Albany Times Union, May 30, 2010: Sick Again to Cost Cash
  Hospitals are looking to reduce readmission rates as Medicare readies penalties.
• Chicago Tribune, May 16, 2010: Tracking Hospital Infections
  New data shows that some hospitals excel while others perform poorly in protecting patients from dangerous catheter problems.
• American Medical News, April 19, 2010: Quality Experts Hope Health Reform Delivers Substantial Improvements
  The health system overhaul will increase quality data reporting, and could help cut hospital readmissions and prevent nosocomial infections.
• The Boston Globe, April 15, 2010: 474 Infected in Mass. Hospitals in a Year
  An effort to reduce the number of patients infected by hospitals in Mass., this number was used as compelling data that pushes for improvements.
• Times Union, April 01, 2010: Health Reform Can Cut Errors
  Law creates incentives for safer care, simultaneously exposes healthcare problems to public.
• HealthLeaders Media, March 31, 2010: What a TV Show Can Teach Us About Readmissions
  In the 1980s TV series St. Elsewhere, she was the comical senior who kept returning to the hospital for yet another serious medical issue, frequently stemming from something done to her the last time she was admitted.
• The New York Times, January 26, 2010: Patient Safety: From Conversation to Curriculum
  A 2008 survey by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which accredits United States medical schools, reported that two-thirds of medical schools mentioned patient safety in a required course, with an average of two sessions on the topic.
• HealthLeaders Media, January 20, 2010: Can Art--And Artie Shaw--Reduce Health Costs and Improve Patient Satisfaction?
  Doctors and hospitals are increasingly realizing that exposure to music and art isn't just a cosmetically pleasing, cute trinket in a healthcare setting, it can actually improve patient satisfaction and reduce costs.
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 06, 2010: UPMC Matches a Method to Patient-Centered Care Model
  The nonprofit Institute of Medicine, in a March 2001 report, "Crossing the Quality Chasm," called for a new health system that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable.