Category: Institute for Healthcare Improvement

This document provides hospital and health system administrators and leaders with specific improvement ideas for five system-level strategies that address the challenges of preventing, identifying, and treating opioid use disorder.

November 7, 2019 | Hear how one team at Michigan Medicine has implemented IHI’s Framework for Improving Joy to achieve sweeping results.

Hospitals and communities are partnering to improve patient care and staff safety, while also decreasing avoidable, repeat emergency department visits for individuals with behavioral health and substance use issues presenting to the ED.

Commentary from IHI Leadership Alliance member Dr. Mark Jarrett was included in this Modern Healthcare article about patient safety and EHRs.

Tejal Gandhi is among nine HMS physicians and scientists recently elected to the National Academy of Medicine that recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. Election to NAM is considere…

This article mentions IHI’s recent focus on improving joy in work as an important part of achieving high quality health care.

Commentary from Somava Stout on social determinants of health is included in this article.

IHI is mentioned in this Becker’s Hospital Review Q&A about mass customization.

In a JAMA Viewpoint, Don Berwick reflected on the results of a new study that estimated the amount of waste in US health care. Commentary from that Viewpoint was included in this article.

According to 100 Million Healthier Lives, convened by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, approximately 20 percent of Mississippians have low access to grocery stores, defined as farther than one mile in urban areas and 10 miles in rural areas.