{"id":11402,"date":"2018-09-06T08:37:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T12:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2018-09-06T08:51:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T12:51:28","slug":"avoidable-sepsis-infections-send-thousands-of-seniors-to-gruesome-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11402","title":{"rendered":"Avoidable Sepsis Infections Send Thousands Of Seniors To Gruesome Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Fred Schulte and Elizabeth Lucas for Kaiser Health News and Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune,\u00a0jointly produced by Kaiser Health News\u00a0 and the Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<p>Shana Dorsey first caught sight of the purplish wound on her father\u2019s lower back as he lay in a suburban Chicago hospital bed a few weeks before his death.<\/p>\n<p>Her father, Willie Jackson, had grimaced as nursing aides turned his frail body, exposing the deep skin ulcer, also known as a pressure sore or bedsore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was truly the first time I saw how much pain my dad was in,\u201d Dorsey said. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/avoidable-sepsis-infections-send-thousands-of-seniors-to-gruesome-deaths\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=65721577&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--LCTW4nsYy2KmixuC3eEdL3T5tm3Q2134LLPtCypOQW_ZfZeGF1tnnEB6BBrAv9EqIDwHgj1oJ5yxQ17eWXgYTJ3buwQ&amp;_hsmi=65721577\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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