Sepsis Awareness Month: Why Each Person Matters

In observance of Sepsis Awareness Month, Dr. Denise Cardo, director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, highlights CDC’s efforts to protect patients from sepsis and how our partners have impacted this work in a new Safe Healthcare blog post.

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that affects at least 1.7 million adults in the United States each year and causes nearly 270,000 deaths. This is too many lives. Protecting patients and reducing the impact of sepsis is our goal and our responsibility. Listening to families who have lost their loved ones and sepsis survivors has taught us that there is an urgency to address the gaps that lead to sepsis and deaths. CDC plays a unique role in addressing sepsis by providing the scientific expertise, data, and epidemiology to inform programs, practices, and policies to prevent and address sepsis.

Join the conversation on CDC’s Safe Healthcare Blog and read more about what CDC is doing, and how you can help spread the word about sepsis. It could save a life.