(IHI: Cambridge, MA) -- It is the most significant health-care leadership challenge of our time: how to reduce expenses while improving quality. At first, the trade-off seems unavoidable. As expenses decrease, so too must quality, right? Not necessarily. Pioneering organizations that have worked with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) during the past few years to identify and drive out waste in their systems are doing so in ways that improve the quality of care delivered to patients.

The IHI is inviting organizations to be part of this exciting and promising work through a new leadership initiative called “Impacting Cost and Quality.”  Because only by working on cost and quality at the same time can a patient-positive relationship between the two be achieved.

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