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Quality--Stopping Sepsis

Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis

Background
Kennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system with hospital-centered campuses in Cherry Hill, Stratford and Washington Township, N.J. With more than 4,000 employees and nearly 1,000 medical staff members, Kennedy health offers inpatient and ambulatory services to residents of Camden, Gloucester and parts of Burlington Counties.

Quality Initiative
Develop a system-wide approach to improve sepsis care and patient outcomes.

Results
Education, collaboration and compliance resulted in 130.4 lives saved and a mortality rate of 11.88 percent, a decrease of 6.03 percent from 2012 when the initiative was first implemented. (2014: 11.88%; 2013: 13.36%; 2012:17.91%).

Contact Information:

• Cindy Hou, DO, Infectious Disease Physician and Physician Chair, Sepsis on the Floors Task Force
• Marianne Kraemer, RN, Chief Nursing Officer, Kennedy University Hospital – Stratford; Nursing Leader, Kennedy Health Sepsis Committee and Sepsis on the Floors Task Force
• Henry Schuitema, DO, System Section Head Emergency Medicine, Stratford Campus Medical Director

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AHA News recently highlighted Kennedy Health's success story.