A Message From HCANYS President Al Cardillo on the Statewide Sepsis Summit

The Situation Report | June 23, 2025

This Wednesday is a major opportunity for home care (CHHAs, LHCSAs, MLTC/PACE, waiver providers and allied services) to demonstrate your integral role in the health delivery system in a fellow audience of all-sector partners, and in particular, for addressing one of the most significant and costly areas - sepsis.

If you have not already registered, please do so here. It's not too late.

Just these facts alone speak to the issue (and there are innumerable others beyond these), as well as the incredible breadth of multisector organizations co-sponsoring this summit.

Sepsis is:
• the #1 cost of care (far-and-away) for those admitted to hospitals, at $62 billion for Medicare alone;
• the #1 cause of hospital readmissions;
• #1 in avoidable Medicaid hospitalizations for the overall Medicaid population in NY;
• the #1 cause of death in hospitals;
• new #1 cause of maternal mortality; and
• the top cause of the rise of neonatal deaths
• 65+ percent in the elderly
• 87% originating at home and community, with the highest risks mirrored in the home health population, and
• estimated preventable/mitigatable 80%+ of the time.

With federal government and NYS facing historic cuts and changes in health system costs, how much more effective and timely to be able to emphasize how home health and partnered health plans can be both a cost-saver and lifesaver!

The summit is for ALL SECTORS. Please take a look at our agenda here.

Importantly, State Health Commissioner James McDonald will be in person keying the opening of the summit, followed by other state officials, and leaders at both the state and national levels. Don’t miss the opportunity for your agency or health plan, to not only gather the most crucial and timely information on this major area including the developments in hospitals, community health, home health and across the continuum, but also to network with major partners and to show how home care a is vital part of the response to sepsis prevention, early intervention and mitigation, and post-sepsis care.

Al Cardillo
President & CEO