HR 7116
SEPSIS Act
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Bill overview
The Securing Enhanced Programs, Systems, and Initiatives for Sepsis Act aims to reduce sepsis-related deaths in the United States. It directs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish a sepsis team focused on education, data collection, and collaboration across the Department of Health and Human Services. The bill also proposes a voluntary honor roll program to recognize hospitals with effective sepsis programs and authorizes funding for these initiatives.
Key provisions
- Establishes a sepsis team within the CDC to lead education and data collection efforts.
- Requires the CDC to coordinate with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve sepsis quality measures.
- Directs updates to sepsis data elements for interoperability.
- Mandates a report on outcome measures for sepsis, considering social and clinical factors.
- Creates a voluntary honor roll program for hospitals demonstrating effective sepsis programs.
- Authorizes appropriations of $20,000,000 annually from 2026-2030.
Who is affected
- Hospitals
- Healthcare Providers
- Patients
- Public Health Officials
- Patients with sepsis
Notable changes
- Focuses on early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of sepsis.
- Promotes the adoption of best practices like Rory’s Regulations.
- Establishes a framework for data sharing and outcome measurement.
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Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] Norton
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119th CONGRESS — 2d Session
H. R. 7116
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To establish programs to reduce rates of sepsis.
This Act may be cited as the Securing Enhanced Programs, Systems, and Initiatives for Sepsis Act SEPSIS Act
or the
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Congress finds as follows:
1,700,000 individuals in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis annually and 350,000 individuals in the United States are killed by sepsis each year.
There is a need for increased Federal investment in research related to sepsis to build on research supported by the National Institutes of Health, including research with a pediatric focus supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
The infectious disease workforce, which plays a key role in reducing the burden of sepsis, needs additional support to recruit and retain health care professionals engaged in infection prevention and related patient care.
Sepsis is one of the most expensive conditions to treat in hospitals in the United States, with high spending compounded by frequent hospital re-admissions, including 1 in 5 patient re-admissions within 30 days of discharge and 1 in 3 patient re-admissions within 180 days of discharge.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 80 percent of sepsis cases begin outside of the hospital.
Most sepsis fatalities are preventable with early recognition, diagnosis, and treatment.
The sepsis protocols for hospitals in New York State, called Rory’s Regulations
for Rory Staunton who died from preventable, treatable sepsis at 12 years of age, have been proven to save lives through rapid identification and treatment of sepsis.
Providers and public health experts should study and learn from Rory’s Regulations to find ways to end preventable deaths from sepsis on a national scale.
Title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 241 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 317V the following:
Director), shall maintain a sepsis team for purposes of—
leading an education campaign on best practices for addressing sepsis in hospitals, such as the practices outlined in the Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements set forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
carrying out other activities related to sepsis, as the Director determines appropriate.
Securing Enhanced Programs, Systems, and Initiatives for Sepsis Act
, the Director shall submit to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report on the development and implementation of outcome measures for sepsis, for both adult and pediatric populations, that take into consideration the social and clinical factors that affect the likelihood a patient will develop sepsis.Securing Enhanced Programs, Systems, and Initiatives for Sepsis Act
, and annually thereafter, the Director shall present to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a briefing on—aggregate data on the adoption by hospitals of sepsis best practices, including the Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements, as reported by hospitals to the Director, using the hospital sepsis program assessment tool of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and State sepsis reporting requirements;
rates of pediatric sepsis and efforts to reduce cases of pediatric sepsis, including how the Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements can be effective at supporting efforts to reduce cases of pediatric sepsis;