Next Avenue published a story in its series on Age-Friendly Health Care. The piece focuses on retail health clinics and efforts underway at CVS, Walgreens, and Kroger’s Little Clinic to improve care for older adults, shining a light on the CVS Minute Clinic work being led by Case Western. The article mentions the 4Ms and IHI’s role in developing the framework.

Derek Feeley’s recent Line of Sight blog post on maternal mortality was the subject of this Becker’s Hospital Review article. The article summarizes the key takeaways for hospital leaders.

This article by IHI staff centers on the need to set explicit aims, build coalitions, and flatten hierarchies in order to strengthen healthcare’s role in undoing systems of oppression.

This JAMA article on end-of-life conversations mentions IHI’s Conversation Project.

This Health Affairs piece by members of IHI’s team highlights the WIN Measures and equity in health care.

This article describes the value of creating a quality improvement–driven, multicountry learning network to accelerate the pace of improving care systems in Africa to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

This article describes the application of quality improvement (QI) methods, as part of the Partnership for HIV-Free Survival, to support governments and facility staff in five African countries in reducing maternal-to-child transmission of HIV.

This article is the first report of the effectiveness of using quality improvement in a large-scale multicountry effort in Africa to improve infant survifal by reducing postnatal maternal-to-child transmission of HIV in breast feeding HIV-positive mothers.

This article on leading the way on patient safety contains information on IHI's National Steering Committee.

This article on leading the way on patient safety contains information on IHI's National Steering Committee.

“Your campaign is crucial. It will change minds. It will change approaches and lead to far greater success than outmoded ways of thinking. Your title tells the story: ‘Learn Not Blame.’” This was how, by video message, the safety expert Don Berwick endorsed a campaign that says that blaming professionals when healthcare goes wrong poisons efforts to learn from what happened. The UK government’s former patient safety adviser, Berwick is president emeritus and senior fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, Massachusetts.

“Your campaign is crucial. It will change minds. It will change approaches and lead to far greater success than outmoded ways of thinking. Your title tells the story: ‘Learn Not Blame.’” This was how, by video message, the safety expert Don Berwick endorsed a campaign that says that blaming professionals when healthcare goes wrong poisons efforts to learn from what happened. The UK government’s former patient safety adviser, Berwick is president emeritus and senior fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, Massachusetts.

Commentary from Soma Saha is included in this US News piece on the status of smoking rates around the nation.

Commentary from Soma Saha is included in this US News piece on the status of smoking rates around the nation.

The WIN Measurement framework was covered by US News & World Report and includes commentary from Soma Saha.

The WIN Measurement framework was covered by US News & World Report and includes commentary from Soma Saha.

This article on burnout contains a mention of IHI's Framework for Improving Joy in Work.

This article on burnout contains a mention of IHI's Framework for Improving Joy in Work.

The honors were presented jointly by the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), the Dementia Friendly Massachusetts Initiative, the Massachusetts Council on Aging, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

The honors were presented jointly by the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), the Dementia Friendly Massachusetts Initiative, the Massachusetts Council on Aging, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.