Hospitals and long-term care (LTC) facilities in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas and Tennessee are invited to participate in LAMMICO’s annual Patient Safety Award and Grant program. This program promotes patient/resident safety initiatives optimized via LAMMICO risk management and patient safety education. The 2025-2026 Patient Safety Award and Grant program focuses on skin and pressure injury reduction.
Although hospitals, long-term care facilities and clinicians have been diligently working for years to prevent pressure injuries, their prevalence continues to increase. For patients, pressure injuries can be debilitating and painful. For healthcare facilities, they often result in litigation and lost revenue. According to The Joint Commission, “Pressure injuries are significant health issues and one of the biggest challenges organizations face on a day-to-day basis.”
Education
LAMMICO’s learning management system includes these educational activities on pressure injuries. Hospital nursing staff must complete at least one activity of the series.
- “Skin & Pressure Injury 1: Assessment and Prevention Strategies”
- “Skin & Pressure Injury 2: Staging PIs”
- “Skin & Pressure Injury 3: Wound Assessment”
Long-term care facility nursing staff must complete this learner activity:
All educational activities are offered free of charge to eligible facilities. These activities focus on information regarding risk factors, skin care and actions that can be taken to prevent pressure injuries.
Award
The hospital or LTC facility that demonstrates the greatest reduction in healthcare facility-acquired pressure rates resulting from healthcare facility-acquired pressure injury prevention and treatment, after completing the LAMMICO Medical Interactive educational activity, will be awarded:
- $10,000 grant to the winner and $5,000 grant to the second place participant to be used for nursing professional development
The winner and second place participant will also receive:
- One-year risk manager membership to the American Society for Health Care Risk Management (ASHRM) or LTC state association membership
- One-year complimentary membership to Medical Interactive Community for all employees to access our risk management CME/CNE/MOC courses online
Completed applications are due May 31, 2026.
For more information and to download an application, visit lammico.com/grant.
For questions, contact:
Royceann Brechtel Fugler, MHA, BSN, RN, CCDS, Hospital Risk Management Specialist, rfugler@lammico.com or 504.841.2738
