The Institute for Healthcare Improvement extends our deepest gratitude to the distinguished group of individuals, foundations, and companies whose generous support has helped make the following programs a reality. External funding in the form of grants, sponsorships, or gifts helps support IHI's mission. See our Principles for Accepting Commercial Support for more detailed information, or send an email to support@ihi.org.

To make an individual contribution, you may send your contribution (in the form of a check payable to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement) to: IHI, Attention: Contributions, 20 University Road, Cambridge, MA 02138.

• Please let us know if you would like your contribution to be assigned to a specific initiative (listed below) or if your contribution is unrestricted. 

• If you would like to discuss making a contribution to IHI, please contact Penny Carver (pcarver@ihi.org).

Thank you for your support. Every single contribution to IHI helps us to achieve our mission of improving the safety and quality of care.

IHI Open School for Health Professions

IHI Open School for Health Professions aims to close the gap between what health care is and what it should be by advancing quality improvement and patient safety competencies in the next generation of health professionals. Drawing on faculty who are recognized nationally and globally as leaders of health care quality and safety, the IHI Open School will provide a unique integrated educational community for students across multiple disciplines: medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, health care administration, and other allied health professions. It is “the other school,” in which you can enroll on a voluntary basis while attending the physical professional school of your choice.

• Read a general overview of the IHI Open School for Health Professions

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Developing Countries

IHI has expanded its mission to help in the world’s most resource-poor countries, focusing on ambitious projects to spread treatment for HIV/AIDS in South Africa and significantly reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in Malawi. IHI seeks to build on encouraging early results and requires additional funding to support these efforts.

• Read a general overview of the Developing Countries work

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5 Million Lives Campaign

An alarming number of Americans are estimated to be harmed in US hospitals every year in the course of their medical treatment. The 5 Million Lives Campaign will establish a bold aim for US health care: Protect patients from five million incidents of medical harm over the next two years (December 2006 to December 2008). This new campaign follows on the heels of the successful 100,000 Lives Campaign.

• Read a general overview of the 5 Million Lives Campaign

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100,000 Lives Campaign

The 100,000 Lives Campaign was a national effort to reduce preventable deaths in US hospitals. The 3,100 hospitals that participated in this initiative with IHI achieved a remarkable goal. Through their work on the Campaign’s interventions, combined with other national and local improvement efforts, these facilities saved an estimated 122,000 lives in 18 months.

• Read a general overview of the 100,000 Lives Campaign

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Innovation and Design

IHI defines innovation as the process of generating new ideas and concept designs aimed at achieving “raise the bar” aims — dramatic improvements for patients beyond the best known in health care today. Identifying the best known performance — the bar — and then improving care to exceed this high standard, is the challenge.

• Read a general overview of the Innovation and Design work

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Fellowship Programs

As IHI and others introduce reform into America’s health care system, there is a need for trained leaders with the enthusiasm, knowledge, tools, and skills to accept, implement and accelerate innovation. With support from outside funders, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement offers a one-year, on-site, full-time fellowship program to address this urgent need. Fellowship Alumni have called the experience transformative.

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Health Professions Education Initiative

Restructuring clinical education to incorporate continuous quality improvement and quality of care issues has been recommended by two 2001 reports: the Association of American Medical Colleges “Contemporary Issues in Medicine: Quality of Care” report, and the landmark Institute of Medicine “Crossing the Quality Chasm” report. The IHI Health Professions Education Collaborative began in 2002 to address these recommendations.

• Read a general overview of the Health Professions Education Initiative

IHI.org

Free and open to all, IHI's website, IHI.org, has become a powerful resource dedicated to accelerating the improvement of health care worldwide and building a vibrant global community of improvers.

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Other Support

Individuals and organizations also give generously to support IHI's work, in general.

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