November 20, 2025 by matray

St. Bernard Parish Hospital in Chalmette, La., earned the 10th Annual LAMMICO Patient Safety Award and Grant for its work to improve early recognition and treatment of sepsis.

The 2024-25 program focused on hospitals’ efforts to strengthen sepsis protocols, a growing priority as clinicians work with evolving definitions, screening tools and treatment bundles. Grant applicants completed a LAMMICO sepsis course that covered clinical signs, screening practices, treatment guidelines and related liability-risk issues.

LAMMICO said St. Bernard Parish Hospital showed the most substantial improvements in policies, procedures and processes aimed at reducing sepsis-related mortality. The hospital will use its $10,000 nursing-development grant and one-year Risk Manager membership to the American Society for Health Care Risk Management to support ongoing training.

Hospital leaders created a sepsis dashboard to monitor compliance, conducted daily concurrent patient reviews, provided real-time feedback to staff and emphasized frontline engagement through shared governance. LAMMICO said the hospital’s efforts produced measurable gains in early identification and adherence to its sepsis care bundle.

Union General Hospital in Farmerville, La., finished second in the program. The hospital earned a $5,000 nursing-development grant and a one-year ASHRM membership for strengthening its sepsis response. Its team updated staff education, streamlined early-recognition processes in the emergency department and inpatient units and reinforced the timing benchmarks in its Hour-1 bundle.

LAMMICO recognized both hospitals and highlighted the broader participation from facilities working to improve sepsis care.