WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: June 3, 2010 Featuring: Carol Beasley, Director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Tom Nolan, PhD, Statistician and Co-Founder, Associates in Process Improvement; Senior Fellow, IHI Laura K. Landy, President and CEO, Fannie E. Rippel Foundation   What happens when health care leaders from different regions in the country get in the same room and talk about their efforts to redesign patient care? Among other things, there’s often a sense of relief that, across state lines and political affiliations, there’s a shared concern for improving people’s health, improving their health care experiences, and lowering the costs of care. Washington may be able to bring about broad reforms for health care, but communities of all shapes and sizes are increasingly being looked to for the day-to-day solutions and innovations that will “bend the cost curve” and offer new, humane models for the future.   Fresh off a meeting in the Washington, DC, focused on building low-cost, high-quality health care regions in A