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Creates a CDC-led sepsis program that builds a hospital-focused education campaign on sepsis best practices, improves pediatric sepsis data, coordinates sepsis outcome measure development across HHS, and reports regularly to congressional health committees. It authorizes $20 million per year from fiscal 2026–2030 to carry out these activities and allows a voluntary hospital “honor roll” recognition program with public benchmarks.
This bill channels federal money, data coordination, and incentives to reduce preventable sepsis deaths and improve hospital care, but it increases federal spending and imposes reporting and implementation burdens that may disproportionately strain under-resourced hospitals.
Patients (adults with chronic conditions and general hospital patients) will likely see fewer sepsis deaths and complications because the bill promotes earlier recognition, rapid-response protocols, and dissemination of best practices.
Children and neonates will benefit from increased pediatric-focused research and improved data/collection efforts that can lead to better prevention and treatment for childhood sepsis.
Hospitals and clinicians will receive federal education, tools, and coordinated sepsis outcome measures that can improve early detection, treatment quality, and alignment with CMS quality programs.
Hospitals — particularly smaller or rural systems — will face implementation and reporting costs and administrative burdens to adopt rapid-identification protocols and meet new data/benchmarking requirements.
Taxpayers will incur increased federal spending to support research, programs, and staffing (authorized funding and estimated program costs of roughly $100M over five years).
Voluntary public recognition and reporting risks favoring well-resourced hospitals, creating reputational and resource gaps that may not reflect or support improvements in under-resourced and rural facilities.
Introduced June 3, 2025 by Charles Ellis Schumer · Last progress June 3, 2025