IHI Summit 2017: Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice and the Community

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WHO:	The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a leader in health and health care improvement worldwide, plus more than 800 health improvers, health care professionals, and community change agents. Featuring keynotes from Maureen Bisognano, President Emerita and Senior Fellow, IHI; Erika Bliss, MD, Founder and CEO of Qliance; Kavita Patel, MD, MS, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a co-founder of Tuple Health; and Trissa Torres, MD, MSPH, FACPM, Chief Operations and North America Programs Officer, IHI.
WHAT:	The 18^th Annual Summit on Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice and the Community
WHEN:	Thursday, April 20 - Saturday, April 22, 2017
WHERE:	Orlando World Center Marriott Resort & Convention Center
	8701 World Center Drive
	Orlando, Florida 32821
WEBSITE:	ihi.org/summit

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ABOUT THIS YEAR’S SUMMIT
The Summit is IHI’s signature offering for quality improvers who are in the trenches of creating team-based and new, more collaborative models for patients in primary care extending into the community. The event is also the place where some of the freshest approaches to improving health and health equity emerging from communities themselves – often using the tools and methodologies of Quality Improvement (QI) – can be learned about and brought back home. To that end, the Summit will also feature lessons learned from two years of IHI’s SCALE initiative (Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation; funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), dedicated to testing and spreading community-level health interventions.

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS:

• The IHI Summit will feature more than 800 health improvers, health care professionals, and community change agents gathering to energize one another, co-create solutions to similar challenges, and gain practical solutions for transformative change across health and health care.
• Choose from half-day minicourses, extended learning labs, and general conference workshops, on topics such as:
  • Creating community solutions to heroin addiction challenges
  • Designing and implementing community-based improvement collaboratives
  • Creating an inclusive environment for LGBTQ patients
  • Reducing health care worker burnout and increasing joy in work
  • Building effective quality improvement (QI) teams
  • Fostering wellness with person-centered care
  • Transforming the primary care teaching clinic
• Find new insights and take-away tools that can be put into practice immediately, shared from peers across primary care practices, multispecialty clinics, academic practices, government agencies, community health centers, and home health agencies, as well as health plans and insurers.

RSVP:	To register, visit IHI.org/summit
	For press credentials or additional media information, contact Sandy George at CXO Communication, [e-mail]

About the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
IHI is a leader in health and health care improvement worldwide. For more than 25 years, we have partnered with visionaries, leaders, and front-line practitioners around the globe to spark bold, inventive ways to improve the health of individuals and populations. Recognized as an innovator, convener, trustworthy partner, and driver of results, we are the first place to turn for expertise, help, and encouragement for anyone, anywhere who wants to change health and health care profoundly for the better. Learn more at ihi.org.