Avoidable Sepsis Infections Send Thousands of Seniors to Gruesome Deaths

September 5, 2018

(Kaiser Health News) – Year after year, nursing homes around the country have failed to prevent bedsores and other infections that can lead to sepsis, an investigation by Kaiser Health News and the Chicago Tribune has found. No one tracks sepsis cases closely enough to know how many times these infections turn fatal. However, a federal report has found that care related to sepsis was the most common reason given for transfers of nursing home residents to hospitals and noted that such cases ended in death “much more often” than hospitalizations for other conditions.