Institute for Healthcare Improvement
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is a non-for-profit organization leading the improvement of health care throughout the world. IHI was founded in 1991 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. IHI is a reliable source of energy, knowledge, and support for a never-ending campaign to improve health care worldwide. The Institute helps accelerate change in health care by cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care and turning those ideas into action. IHI’s customers, partners, faculty, and staff are unified in pursuit of these five aims: No needless deaths; No needless pain or suffering; No helplessness in those served or serving; No unwanted waiting; and No waste. IHI, with the support of the Rx Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is working to identify best practices and promising system changes that enable patient-centered care. IHI’s goal is to articulate patient-centered care designs that “raise the bar” compared with the healthcare systems’ current performance.