As of June 14, 2006, hospitals in the 100,000 Lives Campaign have saved an estimated 122,300 lives.

• Download new Campaign resources: How-to Guides and a new inspirational Campaign video.

• Read Newsweek’s special report on “Fixing America’s Hospitals”

In the Spotlight

• IHI’s Don Berwick is honored as one of America’s Best Leaders by US News and World Report and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
• IHI Senior Fellow Dr. Brian Jarman writes in Newsweek International on why hospitals should know their hospital standardized mortality ratio (HSMR).
• Remaking American Medicine: Watch the four-part television series on efforts to fix the broken US health care system, starting October 5, and a webcast symposium featuring national health care leaders from the PBS series.
• Hospitals are getting serious about hand hygiene and infection control.
• NEW IHI Innovation Series white paper: Leadership Guide to Patient Safety.
• Good news for the nursing profession: Rapid Response Teams can save lives and promise greater collaboration among nurses.
• Simulated emergencies in perinatal care offer critical learning opportunities and can reduce medical trauma. Also see the Web&ACTION on Improving Perinatal Outcomes.
• Using Trigger Tools to identify adverse events is an effective method for measuring the overall level of harm from care.