The number of Lehigh Valley hospital admissions for sepsis, an increasingly prevalent life-threatening complication from infections, increased by 69 percent over eight years, according to a state report released Wednesday. Despite the drastic increase, the Lehigh Valley still fared better than the state, which saw an 89 percent increase in hospital admissions for sepsis from 2008-2016, according to the report by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.

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