September 2026

Sepsis Awareness Month, is, at its heart, about the idea that awareness changes outcomes. Fifteen years in, that premise has held up. CDC’s most recent National Healthcare Safety Network survey, covering more than 5,400 hospitals, found improvement across most hospital sepsis program priorities compared with the year before. That’s worth celebrating. When hospitals strengthen their

On August 16, Geisinger notified the public that a visitor with high suspicion of measles had been on the Geisinger Medical Center campus in Danville, Pennsylvania, from 1 p.m. on August 12 until 9 p.m. on August 13. Thirty-two hours, across five areas: the emergency department waiting room, the pediatric emergency department, the second floor