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December 08, 2015: IHI Convenes Nearly 5,500 for 27th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care
Maureen Bisognano, President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), kicked off the 27th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care with these remarks today, speaking to nearly 5,500 health care professionals, health leaders, and clinical improvers in Orlando.
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October 13, 2015: Maureen Bisognano to Retire as IHI President and CEO at End of 2015; EVP Derek Feeley Appointed to Lead the Organization
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement announced that Maureen Bisognano will retire as IHI President and CEO at the end of 2015, and Executive Vice President Derek Feeley has been appointed to lead the organization.
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October 05, 2015: Join IHI for 27th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a leading innovator in health and health care improvement worldwide, plus 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 will come together at the 27th Annual National Forum.
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September 02, 2015: IHI Awarded 9.6 Million to Improve Health Outcomes for Mothers and Newborns in Ethiopia
With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, IHI partners with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health to accelerate progress toward national health care quality aims.
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June 16, 2015: IHI Releases Practical Guide to Designing and Executing Large-Scale Improvement Initiatives
Guide spotlights lessons learned from seven years of front-line work in Ghana on Project Fives Alive! to improve child survival at scale.
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June 04, 2015: Pursuing the Triple Aim: The First Seven Years - A Team from the Organization That Developed the Framework Analyze What’s Needed for Success
In a new study in the June 2015 issue of The Milbank Quarterly, an IHI team that has played a leading role helping organizations pursue the Triple Aim looks at how this work has progressed in the last seven years—specifically, why some organizations have made progress implementing the Triple Aim and others have not.
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April 17, 2015: IHI Announces Final Selection of Communities for Health-Focused SCALE Initiative
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) today announced the 24 communities that will receive funding to accelerate and deepen efforts to improve the health of their populations. Made possible by a $4.8 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and led by IHI, the communities will engage in an ambitious initiative called SCALE, or Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation.
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April 06, 2015: IHI and APHA Teaming Up to Improve the Health and Well-Being of Millions
As part of a continuing effort to combine the ideas, organizations, and initiatives that can together impact the health and health care of millions of Americans, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the American Public Health Association (APHA) today announced they are joining forces to link APHA’s efforts to create the healthiest nation in one generation with the 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative, led by IHI and 140 founding partners.
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March 26, 2015: JAMA Viewpoint Outlines the Vision of Newly Formed IHI Leadership Alliance
A group of health care leaders is calling on everyone at the helm of health care delivery to quicken the pace of change, by focusing more on proactively delivering what’s needed from the “inside out” rather than reactively responding to changes driven from the “outside in.” Drawing on the thinking and vision of the newly formed IHI Leadership Alliance, a new Online First Viewpoint published by JAMA (authored by IHI's Don Berwick, Derek Feeley, and Saranya Loehrer) describes a set of emerging care design principles to usher in unprecedented performance, driven less by laws, regulations, and payment changes and more by innovations and true collaborations with patients, workforces, and communities.
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March 16, 2015: Clinicians and Health Leaders Gather at the IHI Summit in Dallas to Accelerate Changes in Primary Care and to Improve Health in the Community
The growing necessity to link health care delivery with the support and tools needed to lead healthier lives is very much in evidence at the 16th Annual International Summit on Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice and the Community taking place in Dallas, TX this week. Convened by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a leading innovator in health and health care improvement worldwide, and running March 15-17, more than 1,000 clinical providers and leaders are sharing the latest developments from communities around the world. Key themes are the transformation of primary care, engaging patients in their care, supporting communities and populations in their efforts to achieve and maintain better health, and new opportunities for leveraging health IT.
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February 24, 2015: El Dr. Enrique Ruelas Se Incorpora Al Directorio De IHI
El Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), líder innovador en la mejora de la salud y de la atención de la salud en todo el mundo, se complace en anunciar a su más reciente miembro del directorio: el Dr. Enrique Ruelas, quien hasta hace poco tiempo se desempeñó como Secretario del Consejo de Salubridad General de México, ente a cargo de normas y acreditaciones de salud en México.
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February 24, 2015: Dr. Enrique Ruelas Joins IHI Board of Directors
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a leading innovator in health and health care improvement worldwide, is pleased to announce its newest board member: Dr. Enrique Ruelas, who most recently served as Secretary of the General Health Council of Mexico, the body responsible for all mandatory health regulations and accreditations in Mexico.
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February 19, 2015: Media Advisory: IHI Open School Launches New Course on Eliminating Health Disparities & Improving Health Equity
The IHI Open School has just introduced a new course on health disparities – examining what they are, why they occur, and the role health care providers can play in improving health care and health outcomes for marginalized populations. TA 102: Improving Health Equity illustrates how social conditions can contribute to poor health and, when combined with disparities in health care quality, align to create the ever-widening gap in health and well-being between individuals of differing social status and race. Understanding that health disparities involve many factors that interact together – e.g. social conditions, environment, behavior, and health care – the course offers a number of examples of how quality improvement initiatives and methodologies can reduce disparities.
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January 29, 2015: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Awards IHI $4.8 Million to Help Communities Become National and Global Models of Health
IHI teams up with Community Solutions, Communities Joined in Action, and the Collaborative Health Network to spark community-driven change through a two-year initiative, SCALE (Spreading Community Adopters through Learning and Evaluation).