Institute for Healthcare Improvement

This article in Harvard Business Review Online by Kate Hilton and Alex Anderson spotlights how the McLeod Regional Health System in Florence, South Carolina, overcame resistance to employing a surgical checklist.

This Health Affairs blog post by Lown Institute’s Shannon Brownlee and John A. Hartford Foundation’s Terry Fulmer discusses the topic of medication overload.

This article in Today’s Practitioner uses a Game of Thrones theme to discuss health care today and mentions the Triple Aim: bettering patient experience, reducing per capita costs, and improving population health.

This article in Fierce Healthcare on what the Avengers can teach healthcare mentions IHI’s aim to fundamentally change the way we think and practice healthcare across the country.

Len Berry co-authored this piece in Harvard Business Review about the need for clinicians and their institutions to reclaim healing as a core aim.

Gary Kaplan mentions the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in this Modern Healthcare article about Virginia Mason’s “war on waste.”

This article describes three mindshifts for overcoming resistance to change and provides an example of one health system that used this approach to overcome resistance to employing a surgical safety checklist.

Download these nine essential tools to guide your organization in improving patient safety and delivering safe, reliable care. Tools include FMEA, SBAR, root cause analysis, daily huddles, and more.

​In honor of "What Matters to You?" Day on June 6, IHI asked our teams to consider what mattered in the work we were doing across North America. We were pleased to see the message of “What Matters” permeating our work.

This article gives an overview of IHI’s Framework for Effective Board Governance of Health System Quality and recommends three guiding principles to build improvement knowledge and capacity among board members.