Connecticut hospitals ranked fourth from the bottom nationally for timely treatment of sepsis, new data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) show.
Sepsis is the body’s extreme response to an infection and occurs when an infection you already have triggers a chain reaction throughout your body, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Without timely treatment, sepsis can lead to tissue damage, organ failure and even death, the CDC reports.
In 2015, CMS decided to start assessing hospitals’ treatment for sepsis. The first treatment statistics were released recently. A high percentage score means that a hospital has been following sepsis treatment protocols; a low score indicates poor sepsis care.
Connecticut’s average score was 43 percent, compared with a national score of 49 percent, the data show.
C-HIT has updated its Hospital Infections easy-to-use searchable database to include the sepsis ratings for each hospital. In addition, C-HIT also updated other quality of care measures for healthcare-associated infections. You can search for your hospital in our Data Mine section here.
Wow… Middlesex, Yale & Hartford all below average for good sepsis care or are we reading that incorrectly?
Yes, you are reading the data correctly.