Summary
Job Description:
Sepsis Program Coordinator
Full-Time-First Shift
Quality Resources I Corbin, KY
The Quality department at Baptist Health Corbin provides the framework and resources for a hospital-wide quality management system that supports comprehensive quality assessment and performance improvement activities. This function ensures that corrective and preventive actions identified through quality reviews, data analysis, and regulatory findings are effectively implemented, systematically measured, and continuously monitored to drive sustained improvement across the organization.
Leads initiatives to improve the early identification, management, and clinical outcomes of patients with sepsis. Collaborates with healthcare providers, quality improvement teams, and multidisciplinary stakeholders to implement evidence-based protocols for sepsis recognition, treatment, and prevention. Promotes clinical excellence, reduces sepsis-related complications and mortality, and advances sepsis awareness and education throughout the hospital.
Description:
- Develops and implements evidence-based sepsis programs, protocols, and improvement initiatives.
- Leads multidisciplinary teams to improve sepsis recognition, treatment, and patient outcomes.
- Serves as a clinical resource on sepsis care, best practices, and regulatory requirements.
- Collects, analyzes, and reports sepsis data to monitor performance and identify improvement opportunities.
- Conducts clinical reviews, data abstraction, and quality improvement activities.
- Provides sepsis education and training to healthcare professionals, patients, and families.
- Collaborates with hospital leadership to improve clinical outcomes, patient safety, and regulatory compliance.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited nursing program required.
- Minimum of three years of nursing experience required.
- Emergency or Critical Care experience preferred.
- Current Kentucky RN license or Kentucky work permit required.
- American Heart Association (AHA) BLS certification required within 30 days of hire.
- American Heart Association (AHA) ACLS certification required within 90 days of hire.
- MSN, specialty certification, Lean Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt), or quality improvement experience preferred.
Benefits:
- Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance
- Identity Theft Protection
- Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
- Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire
- Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
- PTO Sell Back Program
- Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
- Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support
- Retirement with Company Match
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing from an accredited nursing program
- Minimum of three years of nursing experience
- Current Kentucky RN license or Kentucky work permit
- American Heart Association BLS certification within 30 days of hire
- American Heart Association ACLS certification within 90 days of hire
- Emergency or critical care experience
- Master of Science in Nursing
- Specialty certification
- Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt certification
- Quality improvement experience
What We Do
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
