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William Van Why BSN, RN, TCCC, EMT-P
Sepsis Coordinator
Baptist HealthCare
William Van Why, BSN, RN, TCCC, EMT-P, is a Sepsis Coordinator at Baptist HealthCare, where he focuses on acute sepsis cases in the Emergency Department, Acute Care, and Intensive Care units. William is also the chair of the Sepsis Task Force that includes a team of practitioners, department managers, quality managers, and pharmacists. This program saw 30% sepsis bundle compliance just two years ago with an observed over expected (O/E) mortality ratio of 1.4. Their current state is a sepsis bundle compliance rate of 66% with an O/E ratio of 0.84. The largest focus of this program is placed on sepsis awareness and mortality reduction through bundle compliance. It's no surprise that mortalities increase when sepsis bundle compliance decreases. Demonstrating this correlation with their practitioner partners has dramatically decreased their observed mortalities and led to lower length of stay times for patients.