A new study reveals that the sepsis alert trusted by hospitals across America misses most children who have sepsis. The major new study, published in the prestigious JAMA Pediatrics this week, has found that a widely used automated sepsis alert system for children — built into the Epic electronic health record, which is used in […]

Sepsis Doesn’t Always Begin in the Hospital. Here’s what I need you to know this Sepsis Awareness Month: Most people first hear the word sepsis in an emergency room or intensive care unit. But sepsis often begins much earlier – in a home, a school, a workplace, a doctor’s office, or somewhere else in our […]

Ahead of Sepsis Awareness Month 2026, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has shared new findings from the 2025 National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Annual Survey, which show continued progress in implementing CDC’s Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements. With backing from End Sepsis, the CDC’s Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements were established […]

END SEPSIS is proud to announce that the SEPSIS Act has earned the endorsement of the Problem Solvers Caucus, an influential group of 45 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, equally divided between Democrats and Republicans. This significant bipartisan endorsement sends a powerful message: preventing needless deaths from sepsis is not a partisan issue. It is a national […]

Mr. President, This week, America mourned the shocking loss of NASCAR champion Kyle Busch, whose family announced that severe pneumonia progressed into sepsis, leading to his death at just 41 years of age. His death is yet another painful reminder that sepsis does not discriminate. It can strike the young and old, the vulnerable and […]