Long-term nursing home stays and deaths after hospitalization for sepsis went up during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with before it, a new study finds. People of all races and ethnicities ...

This new sepsis protocol is saving time and saving lives, according to this CNO. CNOs everywhere need to be concerned about sepsis. According to the CDC, 1.7 million American adults develop sepsis ...

As health care systems look to lower costs and improve patient outcomes, controlling sepsis is a great place to start. Ignoring that opportunity is a huge mistake. When a patient spikes a fever for an ...

Nurses helped improve their colleagues' understanding of sepsis at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia. Over the past several years, themed escape rooms for team-building events has been ...

Significant change in sepsis care is recommended by the retirement of the existing CMS Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Management Bundle (SEP-1) They emphasize the need to shift the focus from specific ...

Twenty-seven states fall below the national average for appropriate sepsis care, according to sepsis performance data added to CMS’ Hospital Compare website in July. Nationally, the average percentage ...

Sepsis is a factor among roughly 1 in 3 hospital deaths, yet, as of last year, more than a quarter of hospitals didn’t have a formal sepsis committee in place and nearly half said they did not provide ...

Deadly blood infections persist in Illinois' understaffed nursing homes, according to a joint news investigation. The Chicago Tribune and Kaiser Health News found that about 6,000 Illinois nursing ...

The CDC issued new guidance to hospitals Thursday for managing sepsis and called on hospitals to do better at treating it. "Every hospital, regardless of size, location, and resources can strengthen ...

Sepsis moves fast. A patient can arrive at hospital with what appears to be a routine infection and, within hours, develop organ failure. Survival often depends on how quickly treatment begins. Across ...

A screenshot of the interactive map embedded lower in the story shows nursing homes without citations in green. Yellow, orange and red represent citations. Sepsis hits nearly two million people in the ...

Shana Dorsey first caught sight of the purplish wound on her father’s lower back as he lay in a suburban Chicago hospital bed a few weeks before his death. Her father, Willie Jackson, had grimaced as ...