“So... He got pneumonia... Went to the hospital... Acquired sepsis and died. Seems sensible.”
He didn’t ‘aquire’ sepsis at the hospital.
Likely not.
But https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(24)00039-4/fulltext reported two years ago...
Sepsis causes more than a quarter million deaths among hospitalized adults in the United States each year. Although most cases of sepsis are present on admission, up to one-quarter of patients with sepsis develop this highly morbid and mortal condition while hospitalized. Compared with patients with community-onset sepsis (COS), patients with hospital-onset sepsis (HOS) are twice as likely to require mechanical ventilation and ICU admission, have more than two times longer ICU and hospital length of stay, accrue five times higher hospital costs, and are twice as likely to die...
A patient developing sepsis in hospitals is never a surprise to hospital administrators. It's one of their medical mysteries most of them have learned to accept.