The IHI Passport Program: The Quality Champion’s Improvement Toolkit I am pleased to announce that [insert your organization’s name] has joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Passport program to support our organization’s quality improvement and patient safety work. By joining Passport, our entire staff now has access to a comprehensive set of tools to help us prioritize, deploy, and accelerate our improvement initiatives without leaving our desks.

As a Passport member, everyone in our organization can have access to Expeditions Leading Quality Improvement: Essentials for Managers Passport Members-Only Tools Passport membership gives us tools, resources, and access to experts to help us meet some of our biggest challenges. As a Passport member, everyone in our organization can have access to Expeditions Leading Quality Improvement: Essentials for Managers Passport Members-Only Tools

Passport membership gives us access to unlimited Expeditions: Expeditions are two- to four-month, web-based programs led by expert faculty on topics that align with our highest priorities. IHI launches 10 Expeditions (a $750 value for each) per year. Passport members vote to select Expedition topics.

Upcoming Expeditions   Palliative Care in the Emergency Department Begins April 19, 2012 A Smart Use of Resources: Nurses’ Time Begins April 24, 2012 Preventing Obstetrical Adverse Events Begins May 30, 2012 Reducing Costs and Improving Quality Begins June 2012

Upcoming Expeditions (continued) Recognition and Treatment of Delirium, Sedation Management and Patient Mobility in the ICU Begins July 2012 Integrating Improvement Approaches: Lean, Six Sigma, and the Model for Improvement Begins September 2012 Building a Culture of Safety at the Unit Level Begins October 2012 . . . and more to come later in 2012!

Expeditions: Bring the world-class expertise of an IHI conference to our doorstep Help multiple front-line teams make rapid improvements

Passport membership includes Leading Quality Improvement: Essentials for Managers (a $1,500 value): In this nine-month, in-depth virtual program, experts lead managers through topics including improvement science, measurement, coaching, and making the business case. Leading Quality Improvement gives middle managers opportunities to put their learning into immediate practice. Passport membership includes the Leading Quality Improvement professional development program designed to help middle managers build the skills necessary to effectively lead quality improvement initiatives. This benefit of Passport membership will give our middle managers the skills they need to help us improve patient care and achieve our strategic goals.

Passport On-Demand Tools & Resources Over 30 videos, podcasts, and other tools on topics including: Reducing Patient Injuries from Falls Reliable Practices to Prevent Hospital-Acquired Infections Strategies to Prevent CA-UTIs The Sepsis Bundle Building Strong Connections Between Cost and Quality …and much more! As Passport members, we have access to on-demand podcasts, videos, and presentation materials without ever leaving our desks! All are available exclusively to Passport members online, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

“I would describe what I appreciate about Passport as value with a capital ‘V.’ The resource topics are timely and the level of expertise available is world class. With Passport, we’re involving more levels of our organization and more interdisciplinary teams  - working on multiple projects, making lots of small tests of change - than we could ever afford to send to conferences.” Linda Horton, RN, MSN, CPHQ Vice President, Clinical Innovations & Outcomes Mercy Hospital, Buffalo “I would describe what I appreciate about Passport as value with a capital ‘V.’ The resource topics are timely and the level of expertise available is world class. With Passport, we’re involving more levels of our organization and more interdisciplinary teams  - working on multiple projects, making lots of small tests of change - than we could ever afford to send to conferences.”

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