September is Sepsis Awareness Month. Each year in the U.S., sepsis kills over 350,000 adults and 6,800 children. The Sepsis Alliance reports that more than 1.7 million people are diagnosed with sepsis each year in the U.S., including 75,000 children. It is the top cause of hospital readmissions and the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals*.
For LAMMICO insured hospitals and facilities, we offer complimentary sepsis education through our risk management platform, Medical Interactive (MI). Some of the online courses include:
- Sepsis: Early Recognition and Treatment
- Sepsis in Pregnancy
- Maternal Sepsis, six-part series
Accessing Education
The MI website is your one-stop site for LAMMICO’s comprehensive library of online Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) courses. Nearly all of our online CME courses are eligible to satisfy MOC Part II requirements. If you are a LAMMICO policyholder, taking our online courses is as easy as logging in at lammico.com/login. LAMMICO-insured hospital and facility users can log in at medicalinteractive.com/login. All the educational courses and other products on MI – monographs, videos, slideshows and articles, for example – are free for LAMMICO insureds!
Grant
In addition, this year's LAMMICO Patient Safety Award and Grant Program topic is early recognition of sepsis. See below for details about it and how to participate.
*Sepsis Alliance. Sepsis Fact Sheet. 2023. https://www.sepsis.org/education/resources/fact-sheets/
Patient Safety Award and Grant Program:
Early Recognition of Sepsis
Hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) 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 2024-2025 Patient Safety Award and Grant program focuses on early recognition of sepsis.
Education
LAMMICO’s learning management system includes these educational activities. To access an 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 hospital, ASC or LTC facility that demonstrates the greatest reduction in annual mortality rates resulting from improved sepsis diagnosis and treatment 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, 2025.
For questions, contact:
Lynne Vega, BSN, RN, CNOR(E), LAMMICO Hospital Risk Management Specialist at lvega@lammico.com or 504.841.2738
For more information and to download an application, visit lammico.com/grant.
