20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care

• Download Forum meeting materials.

• Can't join in person? Join via satellite!

• With a new play starring Monk's Tony Shalhoub!

• Enroll for the National Forum.

5 Million Lives Campaign

• Be on the final "Fully Committed" list! Submit your data by December 3.

• Connect with the Campaign learning network.

In the Spotlight

• Don Berwick reflects on the changing medical profession in his UK lecture, "The epitaph of profession."

• Simplicity and flexibility can mobilize large-scale change. Read a new analysis of the 100,000 Lives Campaign.

• Updated SQUIRE Guidelines for publishing QI work appear in several journals, including Quality and Safety in Health Care.

• Is your organization striving to become more patient-centered? A new Improvement Guide has best practices and tools to help.

• Alignment is key to transforming health care. A collaboration of 28 organizations has produced new National Priority Goals.

• Learn about interventions to prevent fall-related injuries in the TCAB How-to Guide: Reducing Patient Injuries from Falls.

• NEW reports on results from teams working with IHI: Improving Inpatient and ED Flow for Veterans; Innovations in Planned Care at a Cherokee Nation Clinic.

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