Leveraging Existing Infrastructure and Partnerships to Improve Child Health Outcomes Building sustainable and effective community partnerships is at the heart of improving health outcomes for children and families. Communities can scale what already works to drive lasting change.

Strong community partnerships are key to healthier futures for children and families — and the smartest solutions build on existing foundations instead of starting from scratch.

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How My Health Checklist Changes the Conversation for Rural Community Health Workers and the Older Adults in their Care My Health Checklist empowers patients to prioritize what matters most, while helping community health workers (CHWs) and providers deliver age‑friendly, patient‑centered care. Rural CHWs share how the...

Community health works (CHWs) in rural communities across the country listen to patients and advocate for their needs in conversations with providers and caregivers. CHWs have explored ways to use an age-friendly resource, My Health Checklist, to aid in their work.

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An Effective Learning Framework for Preventing Harm A proven learning framework within the protected environment of a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) accelerates progress in pediatric patient safety.

Health care teams are deeply committed to protecting children from harm and ensuring the safest possible outcomes. Yet despite best intentions, harm can happen.

The Children’s Hospital Association has spent the last decade honing a learning useful framework.

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Connection, Co-Survivorship, and the Art of Living with Uncertainty From humor to art, two Forum keynotes illuminated how we navigate illness, grief, and uncertainty—and why honest conversations bring clarity and connection.

From humor to art, two Forum keynotes illuminated how we navigate illness, grief, and uncertainty—and why honest conversations bring clarity and connection.

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AI Monitoring: From Model Metrics to Patient Outcomes As AI becomes more widespread, health systems face a practical question that governance structures alone cannot answer: how do you know if it’s actually working? This blog addresses the practical work...

As AI becomes more widespread, health systems face a practical question that governance structures alone cannot answer: how do you know if it’s actually working?

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Nine Opportunities to Advance Patient-Centered Care with My Health Checklist My Health Checklist can help spark conversations among caregivers, patients, and health care team members. Rural community health workers are using the checklist to amplify older adult voices and stre...

The relationships that community health workers build with patients and caregivers are vital to support health care and well-being. CHWs in rural communities across the country have explored ways to use an age-friendly resource, My Health Checklist, as part of this work.

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Prevention First: Turning Health Goals into Everyday Care Through meaningful preventive quality measures, the Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM) helps ensure that prevention activities in health care are impactful, useful, and support better care for ...

When prevention is measured effectively, it becomes part of everyday care. When it is not, prevention can fade into the background, especially in communities that already face barriers to care.

Read our blog to learn how CMS shapes prevention through measurement: go.ihi.org/473aFCn

How to conduct health equity work amid politicization, threats A new report from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) offers a framework for healthcare organizations to continue health equity efforts amid politicization.  | A new framework report identi...

IHI VP Dr. Camille Burnett was interviewed by Anastassia Gliadkovskaya about a recent IHI report that offers a framework for health care organizations to continue health equity efforts amid politicization.

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Bringing Safety Science to Veterinary Medicine Patient safety isn’t just a human health care concern; it extends across species. In veterinary medicine, safety culture and quality improvement are still emerging — and one veterinarian is leading th...

In an interview with IHI, Dr. Lydia Love, DVM, DACVAA, CPPS, shares what inspired her to pursue CPPS, how safety science is taking root in veterinary practice, and what both fields can learn from each other. Dr. Love is the first veterinarian to earn the CPPS credential.

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Human-Centered Design Training in Bangladesh Emphasized Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration and Academic Capacity to Co-Design Respectful Health Care Spaces Bangladesh, February 4, 2026 – The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and MASS Design Group successfully delivered the ‘Training Course on Human-Centered Design for Respectful Health Care Spac...

IHI and MASS successfully delivered the ‘Training Course on Human-Centered Design for Respectful Health Care Spaces.'

The course, which took in Bangladesh, introduced practical human-centered design approaches to improve maternal and newborn health (MNH) care spaces.

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Coach to Connect: The Role of Purpose and Calling in Reducing Patient Safety Events Leaders who actively support the health care team in rediscovering their core motivations foster a more positive, engaged work environment that improves patient safety. A nurse scientist shares her ex...

In a blog for IHI, Teresa Wood, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, shares her experience and insights for strengthening clinicians’ professional identity and enhancing outcomes for both patients and staff.

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Healthcare Doesn’t Need More Technology. It Needs Its Tools to Work Together. | Healthcare IT Today Healthcare IT keeps adding new tools, yet frontline frustration continues to grow. In this conversation with IHI’s Josh Clark, the focus shifts from buying more technology to fixing how existing syste...

IHI VP Josh Clark caught up with Colin Hung at IHI Forum for a discussion on why quality and safety outcomes often stall despite heavy investment, and what changes when organizations slow their pace of adoption to focus on making existing systems work together.

Watch: bit.ly/4akqV3O

Ideas for Sharing My Health Checklist with Older Adults and Those Who Support Them In rural communities across the country, community health workers (CHWs) are often the trusted bridge between older adults and the health care system. They know that meaningful conversations — the kin...

Designed specifically for older adults, My Health Checklist helps them reflect on their health, identify what’s going well, and prioritize the questions and concerns that matter most.

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This Friday, January 23, is Maternal Health Awareness Day.

IHI's Paolo Borem and Pierre Barker co-authored a journal article on the impact on the institutional maternal mortality ratio of a quality improvement initiative for the primary causes of maternal deaths.

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Organized by the Goiás State Health Department, in partnership with Einstein Hospital Israelita and IHI, this initiative is aimed at training improvement specialists and strengthening the quality and performance of health organizations.

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IHI’s QI Essentials Toolkit includes the tools and templates you need to launch a successful quality improvement project and manage performance improvement.

Download here: go.ihi.org/44oN2Ur

SBAR is an easy-to-remember, concrete mechanism useful for framing any conversation requiring a clinician’s immediate attention and action. SBAR is essential for developing teamwork and fostering a culture of patient safety.

Download the SBAR Tool today: go.ihi.org/4qpKspv

From Metrics to Meaning: What 2025 Revealed about Health Care’s Evolving Priorities Behind every click and download in 2025 was a signal of health care’s priorities: equity, safety, and workforce well-being. Here’s what the data tells us, and how it guides the year ahead.

Behind every click and download in 2025 was a signal of health care’s priorities: equity, safety, and workforce well-being. Here’s what the data tells us, and how it guides the year ahead.

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'Revolutionary' Change Needed to Address Intractable Healthcare Issue, Experts Say Without an overhaul in policy, health inequities won't improve, they argued

A cross-sectional survey of about 1,500 adults was conducted this fall, asking about health inequities, defined as "preventable, unfair, and unjust differences in how health care is structured and delivered."

Read the survey results via @medpagetoday.com: go.ihi.org/4pXaRKL

Tune into the latest episode of Turn on the Lights Podcast recorded live at the 2025 IHI Forum to hear co-hosts Don Berwick and Dr. Kedar Mate discuss how AI, patient safety, and administrative waste are shaping the future of health care.

Listen here: cms.megaphone.fm/channel/ihit...

Every VHA Health Care System now has an age-friendly team - VA News Every VHA Health Care System now includes at least one team recognized as an Age-Friendly Health System.

In an article for VA News, Ines Valencia-Mendoza, MPH writes about an 87-year-old Veteran whose wish to return home came true thanks to the tireless efforts of his health care team and the structured application of the 4Ms Framework.

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"I would like staff nurses to know that they are our front line of defense in patient safety and quality improvement. Period. Full stop."

Read the full interview with IHI President and CEO Dr. Sylvia Trent-Adams (with a subscription): journals.lww.com/ajnonline/ab...

'A time of risk': Healthcare quality experts at IHI Forum 2025 urge peers to speak up Courage was a key theme at this year’s annual Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Forum as speakers urged attendees to oppose the quality and access compromises likely to come amid | The annual...

In an article for Fierce Healthcare, Anastassia Gliadkovskaya recaps the fireside chat that took place onstage at the 2025 IHI Forum between IHI President and CEO Dr. Sylvia Trent-Adams and IHI President Emerita and Senior Fellow Maureen Bisognano.

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How Speech-Language Pathologists Support People to Communicate What Matters Most Effective advanced care planning for people with communication challenges requires a team effort.

"Everyone deserves a say in their own care."

In a blog for IHI, Lauren Schwabish writes about the vital role Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) play in bridging the gap between people with communication challenges and effective advanced care planning.

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IHI released a practical, evidence-based framework that aims to establish a US industry standard for measuring health equity efforts.

This new resource will be the topic of discussion at sessions CC0 and D17 at the upcoming IHI Forum in Anaheim, CA, USA.

Learn more: go.ihi.org/49NiTRm

Centering Relationships in Healing: How an Alaskan Health System is Transforming Care Through Trust, Culture, and Community Southcentral Foundation’s Core Concepts training demonstrates how relationship-based care, rooted in trust, culture, and community, transforms health systems and redefines healing.

IHI VP Jill Duncan attended Southcentral Foundation's (SCF) Nuka Conference and Core Concepts training. SCF is an Alaska Native–owned nonprofit health care system serving nearly 70,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people in Anchorage and the surrounding areas.

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Improving on Excellence: Expanding Existing Overdose Prevention Approaches in New York City The NYC Health Department and IHI co-designed the Overdose Prevention Collaborative – an initiative to improve overdose prevention in high-risk areas and reduce overdose deaths in NYC using place-base...

IHI and the NYC Health Department co-designed the Overdose Prevention Collaborative – an initiative to improve overdose prevention in high-risk areas and reduce overdose deaths in NYC using place-based strategies and frontline staff expertise.

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At the 10th Latin American Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care, more than 900 participants and international experts came together to discuss innovation, equity, and person-centered care.

Read more via Diario Resumen: diarioresumen.com.ar/sociedad/el-...

Unable to make it to Anaheim for the 2025 IHI Forum in December? We are now offering a Virtual Pass option to experience the IHI Forum on-demand, wherever you are.

Learn more: events.ihi.org/forum

In a blog for IHI, Dr. Qwynn Galloway-Salazar describes how best to approach complex conversations with aging veterans. She discusses why the 4Ms Framework of an Age-Friendly Health System and tools like My Health Checklist are so valuable.

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