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* While the Democrats were berating him yesterday, the governor was signing a bill…

Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed legislation named for a 5-year-old Monticello girl that will require hospitals to be better prepared to treat patients with sepsis or septic shock.

Rauner signed Gabby’s Law on Thursday morning at Presence Covenant Medical Center in Urbana. The legislation is named for Gabby Galbo, who died in 2012 due to untreated sepsis.

Sepsis is a response to an infection that can lead to death. Gabby had an undetected tick bite that developed into sepsis.

The new law requires hospitals to adopt protocols for the early recognition and treatment of patients who have sepsis. It also requires that the protocols have certain components including those specific to treating children and adults.

* Note the striking juxtaposition on today’s front page…

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:26 am

Comments

Everything this guv does is considered extreme by the dems. Sad.

Comment by Piece of Work Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:29 am
Nice gesture, but unfortunately the growing proliferation sepsis cases is directly related to untreatable drug-resitant infections, courtesy of Big Ag and Big Pharma.

Comment by TinyDancer(FKA Sue) Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:33 am
I will see your extreme agenda claim and raise you an unfunded mandate.

Comment by Michelle Flaherty Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:34 am
Interesting choice to use Mike Madigan’s words in a headline over a picture of Lisa Madigan. I didn’t go to j-school but that seems confusing to me.

Comment by LizPhairTax Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:37 am
OK, looks good.

Not sure most hospitals need this kind of legislative intervention, though. It’s a training, protocols issue. Better to make this an Agency certification or communications priority than a law, if you want the state to be involved at all.

Comment by walker Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:37 am
Notwithstanding this “striking juxtaposition” and the nice hug photo, I doubt the workers in Decatur will ever forgive Bruce Rauner for his attacks on the middle class.

Comment by Handle Bar Mustache Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:39 am
Nice political play by the Gov and he gets a good headline. And the negativity of the Dems on the State and national level may start wearing thin for them.
With that said, Gabby’s law is like a lot of well-intentioned but probably wasted legislation. Everytime there is a single issue like this, legislators fall over themselves to pass a law. Hospitals are well aware of the infection issues. Ask any nurse there about their attention to this. It is unfortunate that anyone should not have the best care, but telling medical professionals how to do their jobs is not effective. Grants to improve infection control might the the correct path. But it seems that the pols — both R and D - are guilty of this kind of pandering.
By the way it happens even more frequently with public schools. The GA often thinks it knows best how to run a school and send mandates on curriculum that should be left to the professionals.

Comment by Politically Incorrect Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:55 am
Rauner wins the day there on the page.

That’s actually some really good work by Rauner’s Crew…

See, Governors Own has a plus side. Rauner and his Crew need “more like this”. They actually can control that too.

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 11:00 am
your posit is a yuge leap Tiny Dancer

Comment by flea Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 11:15 am
How many people died of untreated sepsis compared to how many have died because of lack of social service funding?

Comment by NoGifts Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 11:21 am
Plus, it wasn’t just an untreated tick bite. They never saw a tick bite, but the girl developed rocky mountain spotted fever - rare and was unrecognized. So this was kind of a complicated case. https://rorystauntonfoundationforsepsis.org/5729/gabby-galbo/

Comment by NoGifts Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 11:23 am
flea-

CDC cites antibiotic resistance as a factor. Google it.

Comment by TinyDancer(FKA Sue) Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 11:40 am
I side with TinyDancer on this. I was admitted into local hospital with sepsis three years ago…they found it within 30 min…took a week long hospital stay to get it out of my system…

Comment by Grimm Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 11:51 am
Families often deal with the loss of a loved one by working to raise public awareness of the issue that contributed to their death. Gabby’s law is one of those cases. So is the Amber alert system. So is Lali’s Law which allows first responders to carry and use the heroin antidote Naloxone when there may not be time to get the victim to a hospital. Good on these grieving families for pushing such legislation in hopes of preventing other families from suffering their pain. Shame on people like NoGifts here today who apparently can’t help themselves from being petty. I imagine the fact that we are even talking about sepsis and its causes and treatment is exactly what Gabby’s family was hoping for.

Comment by Responsa Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 12:01 pm
Before you go to bed, pray that there is never a law named after a member of your family.

– MrJM

Comment by @MisterJayEm Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 12:09 pm
he had nothing to do with writing that law but he will take the ata boy for it thats for sure

Comment by the truth Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 12:18 pm
The same gov reduceded healthcare and medication coverage for those same kids…..

Comment by Ghost Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 1:51 pm
So, “the truth”, governors only “own” the bad stuff that goes on while they’re in the chair. Got it.

Comment by LessAnon? Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 1:52 pm
- LessAnon? -

Please, keep up…

===See, Governors Own has a plus side. Rauner and his Crew need “more like this”. They actually can control that too.===

Governors own. They own the good stuff just as easily as the bad stuff.

Reading is fundamental.

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 1:57 pm
Meh, signing this legislation was a no-brainer. When does the heavy lifting start?

Comment by Cubs in '16 Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 2:02 pm
>Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed legislation

I don’t get it. I thought Mike Madigan ran this state and controlled everything? /s

Comment by Earnest Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 3:24 pm