GOAL: 10% decrease in pressure ulcers statewide by end of 2009

• 3 Aims:
  1. Promote statewide culture change through adopting and promoting evidence-based practice
  2. Improve patient outcomes related to pressure ulcer prevention
  3. Decrease variability of prevention practices across settings

• Divided into 3 workgroups - each headed by 1-2 Steering Committee members
  1. Communications - Statewide newsletter, website development
  2. Education - Create synopsis of best practices for prevention, identify available resources, create data collection tool, define common definitions, host statewide seminar
  3. Universal Resources/Tools Development - Review existing available tools and applicability

• Ongoing statewide calls every 3 months