LAMMICO Patient Safety Award and Grant
LAMMICO Patient Safety Award and Grant
The 2025-2026 Patient Safety Award and Grant program focuses on skin and pressure injury reduction. This program promotes patient/resident safety initiatives optimized via LAMMICO risk management and patient safety education.
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:
“Skin Care and Pressure Injury Prevention in LTC”
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 award is open to hospitals 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 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:
- 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, 2026.
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.
2023-2024 Recipient
Lafayette Surgical Specialty Hospital in Lafayette, LA
2023-2024 Second Place Recipient
Specialists Hospital Shreveport
2022-2023 Recipient
St. Bernard Parish Hospital in Chalmette, LA
2022-2023 Second Place Recipient
St. Charles Parish Hospital in Luling, LA
2021-2022 Recipient
Bienville Surgery Center in Vancleave, MS
2020-2021 Recipient
St. Bernard Parish Hospital in Chalmette, LA
2019-2020 Recipient
Lafayette Surgical Specialty Hospital in Lafayette, LA
2018-2019 Recipient
Jennings American Legion Hospital in Jennings, LA
2017-2018 Recipient
Specialists Hospital Shreveport in Shreveport, LA
2016-2017 Recipient
Jennings American Legion Hospital in Jennings, LA
2015-2016 Recipient
Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in Lafayette, LA
