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📚 Safety is an ongoing process. 📚

This month, we highlighted clinical excellence, maternal and neonatal care, sepsis prevention, falls prevention, and risk management. Different challenges. One shared goal: safer healthcare.

🏥Explore LHA Trust Funds' educational resources, webinars, toolkits, and other resources designed to help healthcare organizations reduce risk and strengthen safety: https://lhatrustfunds.com/resources

Healthcare Safety & Risk Knowledge Hub Your one-stop shop for information pertinent to improving processes, identifying best practices and reducing risks in your healthcare practice.

🦠 Sepsis awareness starts with prevention. 🦠

Early recognition and timely treatment are critical—but preventing infection in the first place is an important part of reducing sepsis risk.

This Sepsis Awareness Month, explore resources designed to help healthcare teams strengthen prevention practices and support safer patient care.

📚 Explore the Sepsis Prevention Toolkit: https://bit.ly/4fYhhEZ

Sepsis Prevention Toolkit The Sepsis Prevention Toolkit offers recommendations and tools for organizing a sepsis identification program to improve the safety and outcomes of patients.

Fall prevention looks different in behavioral health.⚕️

Patients in behavioral healthcare settings may face unique fall risks related to medications, mobility, cognition, or the care environment.

🎓 Learn more about identifying and addressing these risks with our on-demand Fall Prevention in Behavioral Health webinar.

▶️ Watch now: https://bit.ly/45Rp5EN

Fall Prevention in Behavioral Health When faced with prevention of falls in the behavioral health population, organizations are challenged with identifying the proper tools and deploying appropriate strategies that are effective.  During this presentation we will review various fall risk identification tools, factors that contribute ...

🌟 Meet a Safety Star 🌟

West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital didn’t just improve a process—they transformed how sepsis care is delivered.

Through targeted education, enhanced EMR tools, and standardized workflows, their team strengthened SEP-1 bundle compliance in the Emergency Department—surpassing national benchmarks.

But the real impact goes deeper:
✔ Earlier sepsis recognition
✔ Stronger clinical communication
✔ Reliable, repeatable processes that reduce preventable harm

This is what safety innovation looks like in action—sustainable, measurable, and patient-centered.

Your team’s work could inspire the next wave of safer care across Louisiana.

Submit your project: https://lhatrustfunds.com/grants-and-awards/safety-star-award

Fall prevention starts with proactive risk management. 🛡️

Identifying hazards, evaluating processes, and addressing risks before an incident occurs can help create safer environments for patients and healthcare teams.

Looking for resources to strengthen your organization's patient safety efforts?

📚 Explore LHA Trust Funds' Patient Safety Solutions: https://bit.ly/4qELcHV

Patient Safety Solutions | Louisiana | LHA Trust Funds Explore expert-developed patient safety solutions designed to help healthcare providers reduce risk and improve outcomes. Learn more at LHA Trust Funds.

Most risk leadership certifications address general risk or compliance principles. HSLP goes a step further, integrating:

✅ Clinical & workplace safety
✅ Regulatory compliance
✅ Enterprise risk
✅ Medical liability
✅ Cybersecurity

🤔 Curious if certification is right for you? Learn more: https://lhatrustfunds.com/resources-education/hslp-certification

Falls are more than an incident—they're an opportunity to learn. 🚶‍♀️

What can healthcare organizations learn from fall and slip claims?

Our Slip Trip Fall Prevention Strategies that Work webinar equips healthcare leaders and frontline teams with practical, field-tested strategies to prevent slips, trips, and falls which is one of the most common and costly risks in care environments.

Watch Now: https://bit.ly/4zEo6oV

Slip Trip Fall Prevention Strategies that Work This webinar equips healthcare leaders and frontline teams with practical, field-tested strategies to prevent slips, trips, and falls which is one of the most common and costly risks in care environments.

When access to care is limited, risk management becomes even more important. ⚠️

Louisiana's OB care deserts present unique challenges for healthcare organizations, providers, and patients.

Our latest blog explores risk management strategies that can help organizations navigate maternal healthcare gaps while supporting safer care.

📖 Read the blog: https://bit.ly/4fPKowO

Risk Management Strategies for Addressing Maternal Healthcare Gaps in Louisiana’s OB Care Deserts Article Information: Stacie Jenkins, RN, MSN, CPSO Vice President, Patient Safety and Risk Post Date: 12/22/2025 Share: Article Categories: Risk Management Risk Management Strategies for Addressing Maternal Healthcare Gaps in Louisiana’s OB Care Deserts Louisiana’s growing number of OB deserts p...

Access to maternal healthcare matters.🏥

For families in Louisiana's obstetric care deserts, accessing essential maternal and newborn services can present significant challenges.

Our latest blog explores how LHA Trust Funds is supporting efforts to strengthen maternal healthcare access across Louisiana.

📖 Read the blog: https://bit.ly/4gUToR2

LHA Trust Funds Supporting Maternal Healthcare Access in Louisiana's Obstetric Deserts Article Information: Stacie Jenkins, RN, MSN, CPSO Vice President, Patient Safety and Risk Post Date: 09/30/2025 Share: Article Categories: Patient Safety LHA Trust Funds Supporting Maternal Healthcare Access in Louisiana's Obstetric Deserts Louisiana mothers are facing a growing crisis that require...

💙 Celebrating the nurses caring for our tiniest patients.👶

During Neonatal Nurses Week, we recognize the skill, compassion, and dedication neonatal nurses bring to every bedside.

Supporting healthy outcomes for mothers and babies requires strong teams, effective processes, and a commitment to patient safety.

📚 Explore our Navigating Birth Plans and Patient Expectations within the Social Media Era: https://bit.ly/3Ul07uW

Navigating Birth Plans and Patient Expectations within the Social Media Era Whether you're providing care, representing families, or ensuring access to essential resources, this session will offer valuable insights. Together, we will explore how to better understand the language of the child, learn the right questions to ask, and feel empowered to critically evaluate the gu...