Medical Simulation Corporation (MSC) is a healthcare system performance improvement company, advancing clinical quality and patient safety through education.

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Medical Simulation Corporation (MSC) is a healthcare system performance improvement company, advancing clinical quality and patient safety through education.
One of MSC’s most cutting-edge educational simulations trains clinicians to quickly detect, diagnose and treat sepsis–a life-threatening condition that arises when the body’s response to infection injures its own tissues and organs. Even though sepsis is a leading cause of death in the US, public awareness about the condition is relatively low. Many who have heard of sepsis don’t understand the symptoms, causes or severity. Even many first responders and healthcare providers have limited understanding about the condition, its urgency or its prevalence.
MSC hired Pushkin PR to create a public awareness campaign to educate the public, healthcare providers and hospital administrators about sepsis and how MSC’s medical simulation training can save lives by helping hospital teams improve their sepsis recognition and response.
As a first step, we conducted stakeholder interviews with MSC employees, healthcare providers, hospital administrators and sepsis survivors to gauge sepsis awareness. We developed a new brand for the campaign and a communications strategy to reach the public and healthcare workers.
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The campaign generated positive print and TV media placements that included our key messages and photos of the Suspect Sepsis bus. Media coverage included the Denver Post, Fox 31 and CBS4 in Denver, the Fort Collins Coloradan, Fox 21 in Colorado Springs, the Durango Herald, the Summit Daily, Health News Colorado and a front- page story in the Wheat Ridge Transcript.
Within one week of the campaign launch, more than 500 people took the online pledge to Suspect Sepsis. Through public relations, media outreach and hospital events, we helped MSC raise public awareness, not only about sepsis, but also about the company’s simulation training.
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