The 2026-2027 Patient Safety Award and Grant program focuses on taming tricky transitions in care. This program promotes patient/resident safety initiatives optimized via LAMMICO risk management and patient safety education. 

Transitions in care can be tricky. They are among the most vulnerable moments for patient safety, as failures in communication or coordination can lead to errors, readmissions and preventable harm. This topic highlights the importance of clear handoffs, accurate information exchange, and patient engagement as individuals move between care settings and to home. The LAMMICO Patient Safety Award recognizes hospitals, rehab, long-term care and other facilities that have implemented effective strategies to strengthen transitions in care. These efforts not only improve patient outcomes but also reduce organizational risk and liability.

EDUCATION
LAMMICO’s learning management system includes these educational activities on transitions in care as a webinar or online course. If you are a LAMMICO insured, please log in to your account at medicalinteractive.com/login, and register for one of the three webinars. To access a learner activity, please use the following links (note: links will only work after you have logged in to your account):

“Taming Tricky Transitions in Care” (Webinar)

• Wednesday, July 8, 2026, 12-1 p.m.: medicalinteractive.com/webinars/4356
• Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 12-1 p.m.: medicalinteractive.com/webinars/4357
• Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 12-1 p.m.: medicalinteractive.com/webinars/4358

Online recording (available mid July):  medicalinteractive.com/courses/52070

If you are not a LAMMICO insured, please visit medicalinteractive.com/patientsafety-register to register for an account and sign up for one of the webinars.

All educational activities are offered at no cost to eligible facilities. These programs provide guidance on evidence based information, processes and policies that may be implemented to reduce risk factors associated with errors during transitions between levels of care.

AWARD ENTRY
The award is open to hospitals (including psychiatric and specialty hospitals), long-term care facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, and rehabilitation facilities in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas and Tennessee. Applicants are not required to be underwritten by LAMMICO to receive this award. 

After viewing our required education, what interventions related to transitions in care did you implement? Was there a measurable improvement in the transition? The measurement may be an outcome (ex: decreased readmission rates, etc.) or process measure (ex: percent of follow-up phone calls that demonstrate improved outcomes, implementation of multidisciplinary pre-discharge huddles, implementation of teach-back techniques related to discharge information, etc.). Applicants are required to submit hard copy (print) or digital (electronic) samples of the intervention(s) and the measurement that shows improvement in patient safety as a result of participation in the education and 2026-2027 LAMMICO Patient Safety Award and Grant.  

No purchase is necessary to apply for the grant or to win. Eligible facilities will submit this application for award entry. After the staff in the eligible facility completes the educational activity, assess and analyze your healthcare facility’s transition interventions and measurement. Review your current policies, procedures, protocols and/or processes to identify opportunities for improvement. Assess and analyze your current patient/resident healthcare facility’s processes and measurements before and after the implementation of changes. 

AWARD
The hospital (including psychiatric and specialty hospitals), long-term care facility, ambulatory surgery center, or rehabilitation facility that demonstrates the best interventions and greatest improvement in a measurement related to transitions in care, after completing the LAMMICO Medical Interactive educational activity, will be awarded:

• A $10,000 grant to the winner to be used for nursing professional development
  • 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/NAB courses online
• A $5,000 grant to the second place participant to be used for nursing professional development
  • 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/NAB courses online

Completed applications are due May 31, 2027. 

Please contact LAMMICO’s Hospital Risk Management Specialist, Royceann Brechtel Fugler, MHA, BSN, RN, CCDS, rfugler@lammico.com or 504.841.2738 for questions and to submit your application. For additional details about the LAMMICO Patient Safety Award and Grant program, please read the application below. 

DOWNLOAD GRANT APPLICATION