1. 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.

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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!

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. “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.”