Hennepin Healthcare
Our Pressure Injury Prevention Journey
Hennepin Healthcare demonstrated how a coordinated, hospital-wide approach to pressure injury prevention can reduce harm while strengthening frontline ownership and learning. Participants observed how reliable systems, leadership support, and frontline innovation worked together to create sustainable improvement and dramatically reduce reportable pressure injuries.
Wise Practices Shared
What We Saw
- Strong Skin Champion infrastructure
- Predictive risk identification tools
- At-the-elbow coaching
- Mobility-focused prevention strategies
- Visible prevention work through huddles, audits, dashboards, and newsletters
Key Themes
- Building reliable systems that support prevention
- Empowering frontline staff to lead improvement
- Making safety work visible and actionable
- Using data and predictive tools to identify risk early
- Aligning leadership support with frontline innovation
Participant Reflection
"We face many of the same challenges, regardless of setting or discipline. Hearing from other settings and disciplines gives me a fresh perspective and ideas that I can then adapt and apply."