Past Collaboratives and Communities
Better Health and Lower Costs for Patients with Complex Needs
Completed June 2016
Health care organizations across the US and the world recognize that a small percentage of the population generates a disproportionately large portion of health care costs. To accelerate the improvement of care for complex and high-cost patients, this 12-month Collaborative focused on identifying and implementing comprehensive care designs that serve the needs of the most complex, high-risk, and costly patients, resulting in better health outcomes, a better care experience, and lower total cost.
Optimize Primary Care Teams to Meet Patients' Medical AND Behavioral Needs: An IHI Collaborative
Completed January 2016
In order to effectively treat the whole person, primary care must build high-functioning practice teams and seamlessly integrate behavioral health capacity into the team. In this 12-month Collaborative, IHI in partnership with the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation, aimed to design the next generation of high-performing primary care teams to address patients' medical and behavioral health conditions and treat the whole person.
Perinatal Improvement Community: An IHI Collaborative
Completed June 2015
The Perinatal Improvement Community provides results-focused improvement opportunities, focusing on implementing structures and processes that will lead to improved outcomes in three areas, in particular: reducing elective inductions prior to 39 weeks, reporting on the Perinatal Core Measure Set, and reversing the trend of rising Cesarean-section rates. Teams engage in rapid testing of changes that have been shown to improve care, adapting them to their own settings, and constantly measuring the outcomes.
Conversation Ready Health Care Community
Completed October 2014
In 2012, IHI and a group of end-of-life experts and concerned health care organizations launched the “Conversation Ready” initiative to be responsive to the work of The Conversation Project. Together, this group committed to establishing what it means for a health care organization to be “Conversation Ready." This nine-month Community brought together pioneering organizations and expert faculty to move towards becoming Conversation Ready.
IHI Triple Aim Improvement Community
Completed June 2014
Whether your focus is global payments, accountable care organizations, the medical home, employee health, or creating coalitions to improve a community’s health, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, who pioneered the IHI Triple Aim framework, can help you develop and implement strategies to achieve results in line with the IHI Triple Aim. IHI will convene a collaborative learning community to simultaneously pursue results in the three dimensions of the IHI Triple Aim for designated populations, and for key health issues across geographic communities.
IHI Collaborative: Transforming Care at the Bedside
Completed August 2010
Hospitals participating in this Collaborative focused on engaging front-line staff, optimizing communication among care team members, supporting and involving patients and families, improving safety (for example, by preventing inpatient falls), reducing waste and improving key processes of care, creating patient-centered healing environments, and improving work environments through space redesign.
Learning and Innovation Community: Redesigning the Clinical Office Practice
Completed August 2009
This community helped clinicians and staff in ambulatory care practices – including primary, specialty, and ancillary care – increase access to services and efficiency, and redesign for better outcomes of care. Programming focused on: improving access, efficiency, and the delivery of patient-centered planned care for patients with multiple and/or complex chronic conditions (such as heart failure, COPD, depression, and diabetes); and maps to the NCQA Standards and Guidelines for Physician Practice Connections® – Patient-Centered Medical Home (PPC–PCMH™).
Learning and Innovation Community: Improving Flow Through Acute Care
Completed August 2009
This community focused on impacting system-level change to improve flow through the hospital setting while maintaining or improving the current level of quality.
Learning and Innovation Community: Operational and Clinical Improvement in the Emergency Department
Completed August 2009
Unnecessary delays in emergency departments contribute to poor medical outcomes, frustrated and unhappy patients, increased cost from waste and rework, potential harm, and stress for both patients and caregivers. This community explored proven strategies to dramatically reduce operational cycle times and improve patient flow within the emergency department.
Learning and Innovation Community: Improving Outcomes for High-Risk and Critically Ill Patients
Completed August 2009
There is mounting evidence that reliable, timely and compassionate care for high-risk and critically ill people is achievable. The aim of this community was for hospitals to achieve improvements by focusing on specific units in the hospital and also addressing the entire system of care for high-risk and critically ill patients in the hospital.