20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care

• Download the Forum brochure.

• Share your improvement story as a poster.

• Enroll on or before October 3 to save $100.

• Join the Campaign Office Hours to get

on-the-spot advice on each intervention.

• Get advice from Campaign Mentor Hospitals.

In the Spotlight

• TCAB improvements double nurse time at the bedside. Read an interview with IHI's Pat Rutherford.

• DOCTalk magazine interviews Don Berwick and Maureen Bisognano about the kind of health care system we need.

• NEW Getting Started Guide: Improving Care for Patients with Heart Failure — Focus on Ambulatory Care 

• Maureen Bisognano discusses best practices for preventing birth-related injuries and deaths in a new journal interview.

• In the BMJ, Don Berwick’s speech on the UK's National Health System 60th anniversary is both a celebration and a challenge.

• McCannon and Bisognano say that parts of the US health care system perform well, despite the Commonwealth Fund report.

• Calling on hospital board members to engage in quality and safety! Read the latest IHI article in Healthcare Executive.

• NEW reports on results from teams working with IHI: Reducing Hospital-Acquired Infections in a Skilled Care Unit; Reducing Door-to-Balloon Time for AMI Patients.

• More is not (always) better in health care! Listen to the latest in an audio series with Don Berwick.

• IHI Innovation Series white paper: Seven Leadership Leverage Points
  
  

In the News

• Selected weekly health care news items.

IHI Strategic Initiatives

• Developing Countries (South Africa and Malawi)
• New Health Partnerships
• Safer Patients Initiative
• Transforming Care at the Bedside
• Triple Aim