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**Chronic Care Initiative (CCI) News:**

-   **Five Million Lives Campaign**. A number of IHS and Tribal
    hospitals will be joining with hospitals across the nation in the
    Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) campaign **Protecting**
    [**Five Million Lives**](http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Programs/Campaign/)
    **from Harm.** On June 20, the IHI will host a **Campaign National
    Action Day** for all participating hospitals. The session will
    include Don Berwick, IHI President and CEO and Campaign Manager, Joe
    McCannon, as well as expert faculty, mentor hospitals and scientific
    partners. This web-based session is free to all participating
    hospitals. If you are interested in participating in this campaign,
    contact [Sheila Warren (IHS Patient Safety
    Officer)](mailto:sheila.warren@ihs.gov?subject=Five Million Lives)
    or [Bruce
    Finke](mailto:bruce.finke@ihs.gov?subject=Five Million Lives).

-   **Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Partnership Meeting in
    England.** Robert McSwain, Dr. Charles Reidhead and Sandra Haldane
    will attend this meeting of IHI strategic partners at the University
    of Warwick in central England on July 8-11, 2007. This international
    gathering will focus on improvement in healthcare through systems
    transformation and integrated and coordinated care.

-   **Upcoming meetings:** Pat Lundgren will present an update on the
    CCI to the National Council on Nurse Administrators (NCONA) meeting
    in Portland, Oregon on June 21. Candace Jones will present a session
    on the integration of CCI with primary care at the SAMHSA and IHS
    Behavioral Health Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico on June 14.

**IPC-IHS News:**

-   **The second Learning Session (LS2):** Highlights from LS2 held in
    Boulder Colorado on May 15-17 included a site visit to Clinica
    Campesina Community Health Center, success stories from the pilot
    sites, a leadership track and sessions on community and culture.
    Approximately 75 people from the 14 chronic care pilot sites
    attended the second learning session for the Innovations in Planned
    Care for the Indian Health System collaborative.

-   The site visit to Clinica Campesina demonstrated how a poorly
    resourced health clinic can make improvements in health through
    designing a system to improve chronic care and prevention.

-   Approximately 14 chronic care pilot leaders participated in a
    special leadership track during the learning session which focused
    on the business [case]{.underline} for improvement as well as 7
    leverage points for leadership.

-   A session on culture and community demonstrated how sites are
    integrating their unique culture and interactions with the community
    members as important strategies to improve our health care system.