Improvement Coach Professional Development Program
Improvement Coach Professional Development Program: Feb 2025
Develop Improvement Knowledge and Skills to Coach and Facilitate Improvement Teams
Agenda
This program consists of 13 live online sessions, each from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM ET, and self-paced activities to be completed outside of the live sessions. Self-paced activities between sessions are required and should take no longer than one hour to complete.
Improvement Coach February 2025
Topics Covered
The Improvement Coach Program covers coaching individuals and teams on the science of improvement and coaching tactics specific to improvement teams. This program is highly interactive; participants can practice their learning with peers one-on-one and in small groups. Participants are also expected to practice with their teams back home regularly. A summary of topics covered includes:
- The science of improvement
- Deming's System of Profound Knowledge: Systems thinking, human psychology, theory of change, and understanding variation
- Aim statements
- Measurement: developing measures, operational definitions, and data collection tools
- Run charts: creating, using and analyzing run charts
- Change ideas: developing, selecting, and prioritizing changes
- Quality improvement (QI) tools for understanding your system, gathering and organizing information, and understanding variation and relationships
- Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles: planning, running and coaching
- Coaching in the context of improvement
- The role of an Improvement Coach
- Building your improvement team
- Teamwork and communication
- Facilitation
- Running effective meetings and making team decisions
- One-on-one coaching
- Opportunities to apply skills
- Practicing coaching
- Sharing learning and progress with your own team
- Explore case studies from a variety of fields
Continuing Education
In support of improving patient care, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the health care team.
CE credits for this offering are still being finalized and will be updated shortly.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement designates this blended learning activity for a maximum of 40 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This activity may also be applicable for other professions that accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
As a result of this program, attendees will be able to:
- Describe the science of improvement and use the Model for Improvement as a roadmap for improvement projects.
- Employ skills to coach improvement teams on developing, testing, and implementing changes, including identifying high-leverage change ideas and testing them using PDSA cycles.
- Explain how to use data for improvement, including how to use and interpret run charts and other key quality improvement tools.
- Develop skills in team facilitation, communication, decision-making, and understanding team culture.
- Apply just-in-time teaching of improvement skills to team members to advance the team's work.
- Plan how you will continue coaching your team and prepare yourself to coach subsequent teams.
- Identify concepts of implementation, sustainability, spread, and scale-up.
CE Instructions
To be eligible for a continuing education certificate, attendees must complete the online evaluation within 30 days of the continuing education activity. After this period, you will be unable to receive a certificate.
Continuing education credits will not be awarded for non-educational activities, including (but not limited to) meals, breaks, and receptions.
CE Planning Committee
- Lauren H. Hayden,Improvement Advisor and Director, IHI
- Patricia McGaffigan, RN, MS, CPPS, Vice President, IHI
- Michael A. Posencheg, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and Attending Neonatologist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Catherine Warchal, Project Manager, IHI
Disclosure: None of the planners, presenters, or staff for this educational activity have a relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Fees
Regular Rate: $5,495 per person
Group Rate: $4,671 per person
Organizations sending three or more people can receive a 15% Group Discount. To register a group, fill out the Group Registration form.
Please note:
- If you are eligible for a discount — because you qualify for a membership discount or have received a need-based scholarship — it will be automatically applied to your registration.
- After checkout, you will receive a confirmation of purchase. You can also print an invoice from your online profile 24 hours after purchasing.
Scholarships
IHI is pleased to offer a limited number of 15%, 25%, and 50% scholarships to assist with program registration costs for those working in:
- Independent, United States Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) that are not affiliated with a hospital or health system
- Critical Access Hospitals
- Independent practices with fewer than 20 physicians
- Hospitals with fewer than 50 beds
- Members of America's Essential Hospitals
- 501(c)(3) organization with a defined operating budget of less than $5 million, serving community-based populations
- Ministries of Health
- Faith-based health institutions
- Skilled Nursing Facilities
To apply for a scholarship, please complete the online Scholarship Application by December 13, 2024. IHI will not consider applications submitted after this date.
IHI will notify all applicants of their scholarship status by December 20, 2024.
All Scholarships are reviewed on an individual basis. If multiple individuals from the same organization wish to apply for a scholarship, each individual must submit an application.
To ensure equal distribution of funds, all scholarship applications are reviewed using the same scoring criteria. All awarded amounts are final.
Please note scholarships are available for program registration costs only and do not cover travel, food, or accommodation costs associated with attending a program.
Cancellations, Refunds, Substitutions
- Payments: Full payment is due 60 days before the start of the program. If payment in full is not received within 60 days before the program start date, IHI will notify you and cancel your registration.
- Credit card payments: Enter your credit card information online during the registration process or call the IHI Customer Experience Department to process payment over the phone.
- Check payments: Please mail a copy of the invoice with your check made payable to IHI.
- Cancellations: For cancelations made within 45 days before the start of a program, Registration fees are fully refundable if a written request is received by info@ihi.org on or before 45 days before the start of the program.
- Refunds: IHI will issue all refunds in the original payment type (credit card or check) within 30 days. Registrations received 45 days or less before the start of the program are not refundable.
- Substitutions: One attendee may be substituted for another by calling the IHI Customer Experience Department or emailing info@ihi.org.
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