IHI's 5 Million Lives Campaign

The IPSC is the Indiana "node" or hub for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 5 Million Lives Campaign. The campaign seeks to protect patients from five million incidents of harm over a 24-month period. The campaign’s interventions include:

• Prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection (MRSA)
• Reduce harm from high-alert medications
• Reduce surgical complications
• Prevent pressure ulcers
• Deliver reliable, evidence-based care for congestive heart failure
• Get hospital boards of directors on board
• All six interventions of the IHI 100,000 Lives Campaign

The new campaign builds on the success of the 100,000 Lives Campaign in which 3,100 hospitals reduced inpatient deaths by an estimated 122,000 in 18 months through improvements in care. Ninety-three percent of Indiana's short-term acute care hospitals participated in the 100,000 Lives Campaign.

Hospitals interested in serving as mentors for the 5 Million Lives Campaign should contact Betsy Lee at blee@inhha.org.

July 2007: 99 Indiana hospitals make IHI "fully-committed" list