The Impact of IHI’s Triple and Quadruple Aim Initiatives
Read the IHI Triple Aim Initiative page on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) website, read Triple Aim for Populations, and watch the video “An
Overview of the IHI Triple Aim,” all located on the IHI website. Use the youtube article An Overview of the IHI Triple Aim by Institute for Healthcare
Improvement-IHI. Here’s the youtube link:
Assume you are a strategic planning manager within a nursing home. You have been asked to prepare an evaluation of the IHI Triple Aim goals and how they
apply to your organization.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word evaluation of the impact of implementing Triple Aim goals nationally, as well as how they apply to your selected organization. Your
evaluation must incorporate 3 parts:
Part I: IHI Triple Aim Goals
Include the following in your evaluation:
• An overview of the history of the IHI Triple Aim elements
• An evaluation of progress to date in meeting these goals nationally
• A determination of whether these dimensions have been achieved, will be achieved, or cannot be achieved
• A rationale to support your perspective
Part II: Evaluation of Application of IHI Triple Aim Goals Application in Your Organization Include the following:
• Identify the data that you analyzed to support your perspective of how each aim can or can’t be applied to your organization.
• Identify the data you would measure to determine the success of each, if applicable to your organization, in the future.
Part III: IHI’s Quadruple Aim Include the following:
• Analyze the IHI’s position on the quadruple aim and whether you believe that it should become the standard for all organizations.
• Justify your position and support it with scholarly literature.
Sample Solution
There is a growing realization that the successful health and health care systems of the future will be those that can simultaneously deliver excellent quality of care, at optimized costs, while improving the health of their population. It is IHI`s belief that new designs must be developed to simultaneously pursue three dimensions, which we call the “Triple Aim”: improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction); improving the health of populations; and reducing the per capita cost of health care. Organizations and communities that attain the Triple Aim will have healthier populations, in part because of new designs that better identify problems and solutions further upstream and outside of acute health care. Patients can expect less complex and much more coordinated care and the burden of illness will decrease.
