On April 01, 2012, our lives changed forever. The door of the waiting room opened at the New York hospital where we had taken our son three evenings before. The doctor who had been at Rory’s bedside for those three long days and nights told us that he was sorry, but Rory was dead. There […]

In her first major initiative rollout as the Director of the CDC, Dr. Mandy Cohen released the CDC’s  Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements today. These guidelines offer a detailed roadmap for hospitals to follow to reduce deaths from sepsis in their facilities. We have been working tirelessly for 10 years in honor of Rory, to […]

  On August 1st, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Early Management Bundle, known as SEP-1, would officially be adopted into its Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) program, starting in 2024. The SEP-1 measure, introduced by CMS in 2015, consists of a bundle of evidence-based interventions that […]

_ Northwell Health is New York State’s largest healthcare provider and private employer, with 20+ hospitals, 890+ outpatient facilities, and more than 18,500 affiliated physicians. Every year they care for over two million people in the New York metro area and beyond. In 2012 they were one of the first organizations to reach out to […]

A recent report from the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence reveals that sepsis is a significant contributor to misdiagnosis-related deaths and disabilities in the United States. In fact, it is among the top five diseases responsible for approximately 40% of such cases. Each year, an estimated 795,000 Americans suffer death or permanent […]