GEORGIA – We Need Your Help To #MakeGeorgiaSepsisSafe!
Please join us in the fight for Statewide Sepsis Protocols in Georgia. It only takes a minute to ASK your lawmakers to SUPPORT and Co-Sponsor Georgia Senate Bill 361 – #JaysLaw. So as to require hospitals to establish protocols for the early recognition and treatment of #SEPSIS.
Click the link to download – GA SB361
Sepsis does not discriminate. If you think it can’t or won’t affect you or your family; THINK AGAIN!
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There must be a change in hospital policies and protocols immediately. Something must be done NOW!! This is mission-critical. Based on statistics from the CDC, Sepsis Alliance and the state population; almost 10,000 people die per year from sepsis or septic shock syndrome in Georgia. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in three patients who die in a hospital has sepsis.
Sepsis is the third leading cause of death in the United States. It kills more people than breast cancer, prostate cancer and AIDS combined. There are over 1.6 million cases of sepsis per year in the United States and more than half of Americans don’t know the early warning signs. This infection costs the government more than $26 billion in health care expenses annually and sepsis is the most expensive condition treated in hospitals.
Most deaths from sepsis are preventable. However, due to the lack of public awareness and poor hospital procedures, patients are often diagnosed too late and ultimately die from the infection.
Sepsis is a solvable crisis. Not only is it highly treatable, but it also has an 80 percent survival rate if it is recognized early enough by healthcare providers.
It is critically important that prompt, appropriate care is administered by healthcare providers during the Golden Hour – the first hour of sepsis. Sepsis is a time-sensitive illness and every second count. It has been said that at least one-half of the 288,000 annual United States victims would have survived if antibiotics and fluids had been given in that first hour. You can see, it is critical that treatment isn’t delayed.
Hospital systems that have introduced sepsis protocols into emergency departments and wards have drastically reduced sepsis mortality and readmission rates as well as healthcare costs. Sepsis protocols in Georgia will fast track all hospitals and clinicians to be on the same page in screening, suspecting and diagnosing septic patients
Currently, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and Indiana have adopted state-mandated protocols for sepsis. Each state requires every hospital to adopt evidence-based protocols to improve the rapid diagnosis and treatment of sepsis and reduce misdiagnoses and medical errors. With these state-mandated protocols, countless lives can be saved each year.
My family has been torn apart and devastated by sepsis. I have friends and members of my community whose lives have also been severely impacted. Don’t let this happen to you or your loved ones.
Find your legislator by using the following link – https://openstates.org/ga/legislators/
Then contact both your House and State Representatives via a telephone call, postal letter or email and ask them to co-sponsor and support GA SB361 – Jay’s Law.
We need your support!
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