Don Berwick: IHI National Forum Keynote Addresses

Dr. Donald Berwick, IHI President Emeritus and former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has delivered many memorable keynote addresses at the IHI National Forum. Berwick talks about successes in health care quality improvement and the challenges that still lie ahead. Berwick uses his unique storytelling style to take his audiences around the world, highlighting innovations, demanding we protect patient safety, urging us to uncover waste and reduce costs in health care, and revealing the true meaning of patient-centered care. Now you can watch these keynote addresses below to learn about these topics and many more.


​​2022

Salve Lucrum: What Lies at the Root of Distress in the US Health Care System?

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2021

Ten Teams: Health Care's Great Power and Great Responsibility

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"Hands Across the Hills" – and Other Ways to Healing

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2019

Quality, Mercy, and the Moral Determinants of Health

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2018

Start Here: Getting Real About Social Determinants of Health

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2017

All Together or Not at All: The Snuggle for Existence

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2016

Changing the Balance of Power: You Cannot Give What You Do Not Have

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2015

Era 3: Foundational Values
for a Sound Future

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2014

A Report from Xanadu:
Health Care and the Health
of Communities

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2013

H4: The Nature of Transformation

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2012

"And We Said No!":
Health Care Challenges,
Ethics, and Civil Society

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2011

The Moral Test

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2009

Squirrel

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2008

Tense

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2007

Eating Soup with a Fork

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2006

Mont Saint Victoire

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2005

Power

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2004

Some Is Not a Number,
Soon Is Not a Time

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2003

My Right Knee

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2002

Plenty

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2001

Every Single One

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2000

Dirty Words and Magic Spells

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1999

Escape Fire

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1998

Eagles and Weasels

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1997

Why the Vasa Sank

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1995

Run to Space

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1994

Quality Comes Home

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1993

Buckling Down to Change

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1992

The Voice of the Customer: Kevin Speaks

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