The PACT Collaborative, convened through a partnership between Ariadne Labs, the Collaborative for Accountability and Improvement (CAI), and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), today announced the launch of the first learning sessions of their Breakthrough Series Collaborative. PACT brings the nation’s foremost experts in Communication and Resolution Programs (CRPs) together with health care organizations… Continue reading PACT Collaborative Will Support 20 Health Care Organizations in Creating Highly Reliable Programs to Respond to Patient Harm
Lisez ceci en français. February 18, 2022 By Stephanie Schorow for the Global Mass Vaccination Site Collaborative In December of 2021, VillageReach, a nonprofit with the mission of transforming health care delivery to reach everyone, was preparing to launch a COVID-19 vaccination site in Côte d’Ivoire. They faced a host of logistical considerations – not… Continue reading Targeting the “Movable Middle:” Generating Demand for Vaccinations in Côte d’Ivoire
The Checklist should be just one part of an overall strategy to achieve high-quality maternal and neonatal care Since launching in 2015, the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist has been regarded as an important tool in closing safety gaps in maternal and neonatal care. But, as a recent commentary co-authored by Ariadne Labs’ BetterBirth Program, Jhpiego,… Continue reading New Commentary Highlights Unfinished Research Agenda for WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist
By Rachel Broudy Sixteen years ago, Dan Buettner studied the places in the world where people lived the longest. He went to the communities where people outlived their neighbors, with greater numbers of people living into their 90s and 100s. He called these the Blue Zones. As Mr. Buettner explored the Blue Zones, he found… Continue reading Mapping Wellbeing: Four Ways to a Longer and More Meaningful Life
Lisez ceci en français. By Stephanie Schorow for the Global Mass Vaccination Site Collaborative The challenges of setting up and running a COVID-19 mass vaccination site are myriad. Organizers must find a suitable location, hire or bring in qualified staff, do outreach, and obtain and maintain a good supply of the vaccine. All this takes… Continue reading Funding Sources for Mass Vaccination Sites: Options and Opportunities
In October 2021, Amber Weiseth, DNP, MSN, RNC-OB, became the new Director of the Delivery Decisions Initiative (DDI) at Ariadne Labs and the lab’s only director with a nursing background, “which I believe is an honor,” Weiseth said. Weiseth brings 18 years experience as a perinatal nurse to DDI, a research and social impact program focused… Continue reading A Q&A with Amber Weiseth, Director of the Delivery Decisions Initiative
Lisez ceci en français. By Stephanie Schorow for the Global Mass Vaccination Site Collaborative One of the strengths of the Global Mass Vaccination Site Collaborative has been the presentations by organizations and individuals from all over the world about their approaches to setting up and running COVID-19 vaccination sites. On Nov. 19 and Dec. 17,… Continue reading From Seattle to Kinshasa: VillageReach Tailors COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Efforts
In April 2021, just months after COVID-19 vaccines received emergency use authorization, Ariadne Labs and partners launched a major effort to get shots in arms – as many as possible, as quickly as possible. The founding premise of the Global Mass Vaccination Site Collaborative was that by exchanging information, techniques, and insights, those on the… Continue reading Ariadne Labs’ Global Mass Vaccination Collaborative: A Q&A with Eric Goralnick and Margaret Ben-Or
December 10, 2021 Lisez ceci en français. By Stephanie Schorow for the Global Mass Vaccination Site Collaborative The communication to Ariadne Labs from Nobhojit Roy, Chief of Surgery at BARC Hospital in Mumbai, India, was blunt and heartbreaking: What would really benefit us is how to cope with burnout and fatigue for my frontline COVID… Continue reading Supporting the Mental Health of Those on the COVID-19 Frontlines
By Erik Fromme For many, a conversation about what would matter most if they became seriously ill seems like an uncomfortable topic. And yet, now that Americans are more polarized than at any time since the Civil War era, now that serious illness is a daily news headline, and now that our need to feel… Continue reading At Thanksgiving this year, let’s talk about what matters