Sepsis Awareness Month – Focus on Leadership

Published: 09/20/2023

Sources:
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Relevant To:
  • Ambulatory Surgical Centers,
  • Rural Emergency Hospitals,
  • Assisted Living,
  • Urgent Care,
  • Dialysis Facilities,
  • Medical Office,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Home Health,
  • Hospitals,
  • Long Term Care,
  • Ambulatory Care,
  • Office-Based Surgery,
  • Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility,
  • Clinical Lab,
  • Pharmacy,
  • Rural Health Clinics

September is Sepsis Awareness Month and is an excellent time to reinvigorate sepsis prevention and response strategies. According to the CDC, sepsis is a leading cause of hospitalization and hospital mortality contributing to over a third of all hospital deaths. In the United States, there are an estimated 1.7 million adult sepsis hospitalizations annually, of which 350,000 result in hospital death or discharge to hospice.

Last month the CDC released a new resource to help hospitals in their …

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