AHA Living Learning Network: Sepsis Champions Leadership Series (CE Session)
Description:
This session is part of Sepsis Alliance Summit 2025.
The AHA Living Learning Network: Sepsis Champions Leadership Series highlights collective insights from hospitals nationwide working to reduce the impact of sepsis. This session explores the most pressing challenges and emerging opportunities identified across diverse care settings, illustrating how shared learning and cross-institutional collaboration drive measurable progress. Practical examples demonstrate how lessons from the network can be translated into stronger hospital-based programmes, with an emphasis on sustaining improvements and accelerating innovation in sepsis care.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, the learner should be able to:
- Identify common sepsis challenges and opportunities for improvement reported by hospitals nationwide;
- Explain the value of collaborative learning and cross-institutional support in advancing sepsis care;
- Evaluate opportunities to apply lessons learned from the collaborative to strengthen their own hospital’s sepsis program.
Target Audience:
Nurses, advanced practice providers, physicians, emergency responders, pharmacists, medical technologists, respiratory therapists, physical/occupational therapists, infection prevention specialists, data/quality specialists, and more.
Kavita Bhat, MD, MPH, CPHQ
Senior Program Manager, AHA Funded Partnerships
American Hospital Association
Kavita Bhat, MD, MPH, CPHQ serves as Senior Program Manager for Funded Partnerships at the American Hospital Association’s Health Research and Education Trust. She leads the AHA’s Living Learning Network, a peer-to-peer community of more than 2,000 health care professionals nationwide, where she designs and oversees collaborative programs that advance performance improvement and patient safety. Her work focuses on creating meaningful opportunities for hospitals and health systems to share knowledge, accelerate innovation, and implement measurable improvements in care.
Most recently, she has directed national initiatives including a 7-month CDC-supported sepsis leadership collaborative with over 300 members and a Quality Exchange initiative involving more than 200 members. With deep expertise in fostering cross-institutional collaboration, she guides programs from design through implementation, ensuring they generate sustainable impact and lasting engagement.
Kavita Bhat had no relevant financial relationships to disclose.