The New England Healthcare Institute Changes Its Name to NEHI

Press Release
January 18, 2011

CAMBRIDGE, MA (January 18, 2011) – The New England Healthcare Institute announced today that it has officially changed its name to NEHI. Founded in 2002 as a non-partisan health policy organization, NEHI is a national network for health innovation dedicated to finding solutions to improve the quality and lower the cost of health care in the United States.   

“The name change to NEHI from the New England Healthcare Institute builds upon a strong brand and better reflects the national scope of our work,” said NEHI President Wendy Everett. “We have been called NEHI informally for years and today we make it official.”

 The name change to NEHI will be coupled with a marketing campaign called “NEHI: Taking It National.” The campaign supports events and activities related to NEHI’s research that will take place around the country in 2011 for NEHI’s members and other national health care stakeholders.  

NEHI works within three broad areas to address key issues in health care: promoting medical innovation, improving quality and efficiency, and fostering wellness and prevention. As a member-based organization, NEHI brings together diverse perspectives from the health care community to find mutual solutions to shared health care problems.

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 About NEHI
NEHI is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming health care for the benefit of patients and their families. In partnership with members from all across the health care system, NEHI conducts evidence-based research and stimulates policy change to improve the quality and the value of health care. Together with this unparalleled network of committed health care leaders, NEHI brings an objective, collaborative and fresh voice to health policy. For more information, visit www.nehi.net.