Institute for Healthcare Improvement: WIHI

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All Hospitals in Favor of Saving Money: Say “Patient Flow!”

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

2:00PM - 3:00PM Eastern Time

Featuring:

Eugene Litvak, PhD, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Optimization

James M. Anderson, President and CEO, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

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Imagine this scenario: a hospital CEO, a chief surgeon, and an operations management expert decide there has to be something better than daily overcrowding in the emergency department, no vacant operating rooms, a lackluster occupancy rate, stressed staff, and patients waiting around to be seen. The trio, along with others in the hospital, decide they’re going to dig into the problem and apply the best improvement science available to turn things around. And they do.

It’s taken six years to “smooth patient flow,” but the experience at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and at other hospitals that have made similar commitments, has been worth every penny invested, as well as the hundreds of millions of dollars now being saved or newly generated.

Want the details? Want a 90% or better occupancy rate where patients can truly be safely managed? Eugene Litvak and Cincinnati Children’s Jim Anderson can’t wait to tell you more on the next WIHI with host Madge Kaplan. It’s a story about seemingly immutable cultures within a hospital becoming instead bastions of change and efficiency. We hope you’ll join the next WIHI!

There is no fee for participating in a WIHI program, but enrollment is required.

Welcome to WIHI

How to Join

WIHI is an exciting new "talk show" program from IHI, connecting you to the cutting edge of health care improvement. It’s free, it’s timely, and it’s designed to help dedicated legions of health care improvers worldwide keep up with some of the freshest and most robust thinking and strategies for improving patient care.

Every other week, IHI will bring you a 60-minute show free of charge, that will help health care improvers worldwide stay on top of the latest thinking and strategies for improving patient care. You can tune in “live” through your computer or telephone, or listen to recordings of the broadcast later at your convenience. Your host, IHI’s Madge Kaplan, has years of experience as a health care reporter for public radio, but may be best known as “the voice” of the 100,000 Lives and 5 Million Lives Campaign conference calls. Please join us!

WIHI programs use WebEx technology. There are three ways to join:

Via computer alone. You can access the audio through your computer speakers or headphones and can submit comments or questions via the chat function in WebEx.
Via telephone alone. You can participate in the audio aspects of the program, but will not have access to chat functions.
Via computer AND telephone. You can participate in the audio aspects of the program and the chat functions as well.