The 2024-2025 Patient Safety Award and Grant program focuses on early recognition of sepsis. This program promotes patient/resident safety initiatives optimized via LAMMICO risk management and patient safety education. 

Sepsis remains a time-critical emergency. As with stroke and heart attack, the identification and response to sepsis should be urgent and protocol-based. Currently there are changing definitions of sepsis, various sepsis screening tools, standardized treatment bundles, and risk mitigation strategies available. Incorporating sepsis treatment guidelines should be an important part of clinical care.

EDUCATION
LAMMICO’s learning management system includes these educational activities. To access a learner activity, please use the following links: 
“Sepsis in LTC: A Medical Emergency”
“Sepsis: Early Recognition and Treatment” 

All educational activities are offered free of charge to eligible facilities. These activities focus on information regarding the clinical manifestations of sepsis screening for the recognition of sepsis and septic shock, and liability risks and mitigation strategies associated with sepsis.

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

The hospital, ASC or LTC facility that demonstrates the greatest reduction in annual mortality rates resulting from improved sepsis diagnosis and treatment 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 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 courses online

Completed applications are due May 31, 2025. 

Please contact LAMMICO’s Vice President of Risk Management and Patient Safety, Dawer Azizi, MHA, RN, BSN at dazizi@lammico.com or 504.841.5252 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