(Undated) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is launching a sepsis awareness program to help hospitals improve survival rates. The CDC says one in three people who dies in a hospital has sepsis, a condition that requires urgent treatment to prevent tissue and organ damage and death. The health agency’s director, Dr. Mandy Cohen, is calling on hospitals to raise the bar on sepsis care, starting with early detection of the illness. The CDC says in a typical year, at least one-point-seven-million American adults develop sepsis and at least 350-thousand die in the hospital or are released to hospice care.
