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Our Partners
IEHSS has fostered important strategic relationships through our dedication and commitment to the improvement of health care quality, safety, and value. These generative relationships are critical to our mission of shared knowledge, tools, and resources to support the cultivation of improvement capability across the globe to result in better quality, safety and value in health care systems.
Institute for Excellence in Health and Social Systems (IEHSS)
Durham, New Hampshire
Key Contact: Marjorie Godfrey, PhD, MS, BSN, FAAN
Co-Director and Founder
margiegodfrey@gmail.com
The Institute for Excellence in Health and Social Systems partners with complex health and social systems to help populations live a good life in a good place. IEHSS was formerly The Dartmouth Institute Microsystem Academy (TDIMA) for 11 years before moving to UNH in 2020.
Sheffield Microsystem Coaching Academy
Sheffield, England
Key Contact: Steve Harrison
Head of Quality Improvement and Senior Microsystem Improvement Coach
Steve.Harrison@sth.nhs.uk
Website: http://www.sheffieldmca.org.uk
The Sheffield Microsystem Coaching Academy (MCA) is the result of a pioneering collaboration between The Dartmouth Institute Microsystem Academy (now IEHSS) and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals UK to establish Dartmouth's first Coaching Academy outside the USA. Initially funded by The Health Foundation, the MCA adapts and disseminates the art and science of improvement including the team coaching model.
The Sheffield MCA strives to improve quality, safety and value within the Sheffield health care system through coaching interdisciplinary professional groups to be able to provide exceptional care and continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Quality Registry Center (QRC) Coaching Academy
Stockholm, Sweden
Key Contact: Helena Hvitfeldt, PhD
Program Director
helena.hvitfeldt.forsberg@ki.se
Website: http://qrcstockholm.se/forbattringsarbete/qrc-coaching-academy
In an innovative partnership with the Insitute for Excellence in Health and Social Systems (IEHSS), the QRC Stockholm initiative leverages the national registry data to develop leaders, coaches and interprofessional frontline improvement teams to achieve improved health of populations.
QRC Stockholm collaborated with The Dartmouth Institute Microsystem Academy (now IEHSS) to develop a Coaching Academy which focuses on the education and training, research and the continual evaluation and improvement of the team coaching model.
Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare
Jönköping, Sweden
Key Contact: Johanna Grek
johanna.grek@ju.se
Website: www.jonkopingacademy.se
Jönköping Academy and the Insitute for Excellence in Health and Social Systems (IEHSS) share a unique, long-standing relationship and collaboration on research and education in the health and social care sectors. Jönköping Academy offers a Master's degree program, which was developed based on IEHSS programs in the improvement of care.
Jönköping Academy functions as a national and international forum for research and education in improvement knowledge and leadership within healthcare and social care.
St. James's Hospital
Dublin, Ireland
Key Contact: Una Geary, MD
Director of Quality and Safety Improvement
ugeary@stjames.ie
Website: http://www.stjames.ie
The Insitute for Excellence in Health and Social Systems (IEHSS) partners with St. James's Hospital to customize an improvement, coaching and leadership program to support development of frontline improvement capability to achieve St. James's strategic improvement goals.
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, USA
Bethesda, Maryland
Key Contact: Bruce Marshall, MD
Senior Vice President of Clinical Affairs
bmarshall@cff.org
Website: https://www.cff.org
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Insitute for Excellence in Health and Social Systems (IEHSS) have a long-standing partnership (over a decade) focused on cultivating the improvement capability of frontline staff and leadership development at Cystic Fibrosis centers across the U.S. This collaboration continues to achieve more efficient and effective care systems for people with Cystic Fibrosis and their families.
Cystic Fibrosis Canada
Toronto, Canada
Key Contact: Ian McIntosh
Program Director, Healthcare
imcintosh@cysticfibrosis.ca
Website: http://www.cysticfibrosis.ca
Cystic Fibrosis Canada and The Dartmouth Institute Microsystem Academy (now IEHSS) implemented a program based on the precedent set by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, USA. The partnership is focused on building and cultivating improvement knowledge, skills, and capabilities and the leadership of improvement across Cystic Fibrosis clinics in Canada.
American Thrombosis and Hemostasis Network/ National Hemophilia
Program Coordinating Center
Unites States
Key Contact: Karen Droze, MS
Program Manager
kdroze@athn.org
Website: http://athn.org
the Insitute for Excellence in Health and Social Systems (IEHSS) and the American Thrombosis and Hemostasis Network have co-developed a customized program at Hemophilia Treatment Centers across the United States, focused on developing an improvement and coaching infrastructure to assist frontline teams and leaders in successfully achieving improvement goals and initiatives around the transition of pediatric to adult care.
As part of this program, the coaches in training also attended the eCoach-the-Coach program (now Team Coaching Program.)
This program was funded by HRSA grant number UC8C24079
Qulturum
Jönköping, Sweden
Key Contact: Anette Nilsson
anette.nilsson@rjl.se
Website: http://plus.rjl.se/qulturum
Qulturum is the improvement unit at Region Jönköping County, responsible for the healthcare services in Jönköping county, located in the south of Sweden. Qulturum is a center for development of improvement knowledge and innovation in healthcare based in Jönköping, Sweden.
