6th Annual Meeting Event Page

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Welcome to the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Hospital at Home Users Group!

Below you can find Photo and Video Contest winners, as well as the Poster Hall and Lightning Round presentation video.

To claim CME, click here. Please note: the portal will not open until after the meeting.
For more detailed instructions, visit this webpage. Scroll to the bottom and see the section, “How to Get Your Certificate (AFTER THE MEETING).”
Please note: Amedco LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Registrants will be able to access to a recording of the Annual Meeting afterwards. As soon as the video is available, we will send out a follow up message to let folks now.

If you have any questions, please contact jdonahue@aboutscp.com.

Photo and video contest winners

Below are the winners of the 2024 Photo and Video of the Year award. The Hospital at Home Users Group leadership thanks everyone who submitted photos and videos for this year’s Annual Meeting.

2024 Photo Contest Winner

Origin Healthcare

Hospitalist-at-Home
Windsor, CO

2024 Video Contest Winner

ChristianaCare

Hospital Care at Home
Wilmington, DE

Hospital at Home Annual Meeting Posters

Please view the following posters submitted to the 2024 Annual Meeting, under three categories: Research, Practice Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes. You can also view the Lightning Round presentations video, which features presentations of the runner-up posters in each category. The Hospital at Home Users Group leadership thanks everyone who submitted posters and abstracts for this year’s Annual Meeting.

lightning round presentations

The video below is a compilation of poster presentations for the top runners-up in each category.

Research

Hospital at Home National Practice Standards

David M. Levine, MD, MPH, MA
Linda V. DeCherrie, MD
Albert Siu, MD, MSPH
Gabrielle Schiller, MPH
Chrisanne Timpe, MD
Stephanie Murphy, DO
Margaret Paulson, DO
Christine Lum Lung, MD
Michael Nottidge, MD, MPH, MBA
Karen Titchener, NP
Bruce Leff, MD
Peter Read, DO

*Winner of Research category*

Improving SDOH-related referrals in HaH through a systematic 4-domain SDOH needs assessment in the home

Arsheeya Mashaw, MD
Chloe Eustache, RN
Gregory Snyder, MD, MBA

Kaiser Permanente Northwest; Medically Home

(Selected for a Lightning Round Presentation)

Training Community Paramedics to Remotely Acquire Lung & Inferior Vena Cava Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Support Physicians' Clinical Decision-Making on Hospital at Home

Michelle N. Grinman, MD, FRCPC, MPH
Steve Reid, B.Eng
Dennis Moon, ACP
Suean Pascoe, B.App.Sc-MRT, AMS, FAIUM
Oladoyin Olaosebikan, MBBS
Negar Dehghan Noudeh, MBT
Salome Saunders, MBT
Amanda Ip, MSc
Amanda Raven, M.S.I.E.
Eryn Libert-Scott, BEng
Katelyn Wiley, PhD
Ryan Kozicky, B.Sc., MPH, EMT-P
Michele Smith, BSc, ACP
Andrew Kirkpatrick, CD, MD, MHSc, FRCSC, FACS
John Conly, MD DSc CCFP FRCPC FCAHS FAMMI FIDSA FSHEA FACP
Jeff Round, PhD
Irene Ma, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FACP, RDMS, RDCS
Tin-Shan Chung, MSc(c), ACP
Ghazwan Altabbaa, MD, FRCPC, MSc

University of Calgary; Alberta Health Services; Presuna; Zedu Ultrasound Training Solutions; University of Toronto; Institute of Health Economics; University of Alberta

(Selected for a Lightning Round Presentation)

Risk Factors for Adverse Events During Antiarrhythmic Drug Initiation: Implications for Establishing Outpatient Protocols

Rachita Navara, MD, FACC, FHRS
Devon Chen, MS
Aditi Pallod
Maitreyi Bharath
Abhivadya Soi
Bishow Paudel, MBBS
Kunj Patel, MD, MSc

University of California, San Francisco; SafeBeatRx; University of California, Berkeley; University of Virginia; USCF St. Mary’s Hospital

(Selected for a Lightning Round Presentation)

Addressing the Needs of the Highest Need, Highest Cost Patients at Home

Ed Bassin, PhD

Novolink

Hospital-level care at home for acutely ill adults in rural settings: A qualitative evaluation of a randomized controlled trial

David Levine, MD, MPH, MA
Meghna Desai, MPH
Stephanie Blitzer
Sarah Findeisen
Rachel Moyal-Smith, DrPH, PA-C
Abby Ow,
Stuart Lipsitz, ScD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School; Ariadne Labs

Hospital at Home Programs: Caregiver Insights on Successes and Enhancements

Julia Hart, MA
Ksenia Gorbenko, PhD
Brittni Howard, MA
Jeannys Nnemnbeng, MD
Gabrielle Schiller, MPH
Anupama Goyal, MD, MPH, MBA
Chrisanne Timpe, MD
Tuyet-Trinh Truong, MD
Fred Ko, MD
Bruce Leff, MD
David M. Levine, MD, MPH, MA
Linda V. DeCherrie, MD
Albert Siu, MD, MSPH
Abigail Baim-Lance, PhD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; University of Michigan; Health Partners; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Massachussets General Br igham Hospital; Medically Home; Harvard Medical School; James J Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Accuracy of Smartwatch Device ECGs for At-Home Cardiac Health Monitoring

Rachita Navara, MD, FACC, FHRS
Bishow Paudel, MBBS
Aditi Pallod
Shreya Rai
Anupam Raj Nepal
Maitreyi Bharath
Azeem Rathore, DO
Kunj Patel, MD, MSc

University of California, San Francisco; SafeBeatRx; University of Virginia; Rooney Heart Institute; USCF St. Mary’s Hospital

Feasibility of Outpatient Antiarrhythmic Drug Initiation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Rachita Navara, MD, FACC, FHRS
Douglas Corsi, MD
Bishow Paudel, MBBS
Yulania Wang
Kunj Patel, MD, MSc

University of California, San Francisco; SafeBeatRx; Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center; University of Virginia; USCF St. Mary’s Hospital

Practice Innovations

A Unique Approach to Patient Identification for a Hospital at Home Service

Jeff Epstein, MD
Atara Nissel, PA
Dahlia Rizk, DO
Carleigh Gustafson, RN
Sanaa Zafar, MD
Irina Zaretsky, MD
Tuyet-Trinh Truong, MD
Ania Wajnberg, MD

Mount Sinai Health System

*Winner of the Practice Innovation category*

Health Equity in the Digital Age: Enhancing Virtual Hospital-at-Home Care for South Asians in British Columbia

Mahabhir S. Kandola, BKin, MSc
Emma Wong, BSc, MPH Candidate
Megan MacPherson, PhD

Fraser Health Authority

(Selected for a Lightning Round Presentation)

Making a Match: Focused Intervention to Titrate Home Health Aide Services to Optimize Patient Safety, Patient/Caregiver Satisfaction, and Program Costs

Pamela Saenger, MD, MPH
Gina Thompson, MHA
Michelle Whitbread, MA
Adam Chess, MA, MPH
Hillary D’Atri, MPH
Lynda Cooke, MSN, RN, PMP
Stephanie Murphy, MD
Nana Boahemaa, DNP, MBA, RN
Lana Kean, DNP, RN
Carly Brown, MD

Yale New Haven Health; Medically Home

(Selected for a Lightning Round Presentation)

Promoting Equity in Hospital-at-Home

Rachelle Alpern, MHA, MBA
Rachel Daily, MHA
Michael J Craig, MD, MPH, SFHM
Patrick O’She, MD, MBA
Escher Howard-Williams, MD
Carlton Moore, MD, MS

UNC Health; University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Pharmacist Involvement in Order Set Development Targeted for Hospital at Home Patients

Rana Al-Salameh, PharmD
Christina Phelan, PharmD, BCPS

SUNY Upstate University Hospital

Managing Wounds and Cellulitis in Hospital at Home

Jennifer Carmody, MSN, RN
Karen Goldsmith, BSN, RN

Virtua Health

From Simulation to Solution: Simulation-Driven Insights and Initial Outcomes of a Hospital at Home Program

Francesca Chu, BS
Hasime Ali, BS
Cheng-Kai Kao, MD

University of Chicago Medicine

In-Home Therapy with Hospital at Home

Shannon Cormier, PT, DPT
Jennifer Cline, PT, DH Sc, MS

Atrium Health

Hospitalists Without Walls: Scaling Capacity to Admit Patients from Home to Home

Manuel J. Diaz, MD, FHM
Anna Barth, MHA
Lindsay McGuiness, MSN, BSN, RN
Patrick Kneeland, MD, SFHM

Dispatch Health

The Advanced CARE Framework: Towards a Standardized Approach to Shared Decision-Making in HaH and Other Alternative Models of Care

Manuel J. Diaz, MD, FHM
Patrick Kneeland, MD, SFHM

Dispatch Health

Lessons from Surge and how Home Based Programs can be leveraged to meet the needs of Stressed Hospital Systems

Jeffrey Epstein, MD
Trini Truong, MD
Samuel Ware
Joseph Meehan, RN
Ania Wajnberg, MD

Mount Sinai Health System

Default to Yes: Building program policies and clinical operations standards to address underserved patients' needs as a driver of access and equity in HaH.

Fitzgerald Shepherd, MD
Kathleen Baudin, DNP, RN
Tilar Martin-Asifiri, MS
Chloe Eustache, RN
Gregory Snyder, MD, MBA

Boston Medical Center; Medically Home

From Home to Hospital: Escalating for a Smooth Transition

AnnMarie Short MSN, RN, PCCN
Jonathan Kelly, DO
Eve Dorfman, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Jeanmarie Moorehead, EdD, RN, NEA-BC
Jenna Blind, DNP, RN, CPHQ, NEA-BC
Dina Chenouda, MD

NYU Langone Health

Safety Management System Development for High-Quality Hospital at Home

Gregory Snyder, MD, MBA
Chloe Eustache, RN
Dave Shinsel, MA

Medically Home

Making GAiNs: Bed Days Saved for Complex Patients

Leah W. Webster, PharmD, BCPS
Chloe Gernhard, PharmD, BCPS, CPh

Mayo Clinic

Subspecialty Consult Utilization on Hospital at Home

Sanaa Zafar, MD
Irina Zaretsky, MD
Jeffrey Epstein, MD
Betsy Collazo
Ania Wajnberg, MD
Tuyet-Trinh Truong, MD

Mount Sinai Health System

Establishing a Hospital at Home Educational Curriculum for Medical Trainees

Irina Zaretsky, MD
Jeffrey Epstein, MD
Sanaa Zafar, MD
Betsy Collazo
Ania Wajnberg, MD
Tuyet-Trinh Truong, MD

Mount Sinai Health System

Clinical Vignettes

Integrating Intensive Monitoring and Telemedicine for Managing Complex Comorbidities in an Elderly Patient: A Case Study

Michael Shen, MD, FACC
Armando Landeros, MD, BSC
Winston Guevara, MSN, FNP-C

Novolink

*Winner of the Clinical Vignette category*

Prioritizing Mental Health and Patient-Centered Care: A Case Study of Managing a Complex Oncology Patient in Hospital at Home

James Kenney, MD
Wynneerann Barnhart, PAC
William Galilei, CNP
Noah Rosenberg, MD, MBA

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center; Dispatch Health

(Selected for lightning round presentation at the Annual Meeting)

A curious case of COVID?

Allison Ruhe, PA-C
Shannon Coveney, CNP
Jaye Hefner, MD

Mass General Brigham

(Selected for lightning round presentation at the Annual Meeting)

Violence and Home-Based Care: How Should We Navigate This Risk?

Julia Breton, MD
Stephen Biederman, MD
Alan Dow, MD

Virginia Commonwealth University

(Selected for lightning round presentation at the Annual Meeting)

Meeting Both Patient and Family Needs

Anthony Wehbe DO, MBA, FACOI
Christopher Westberg
Catherine Lyons, RN
Murielle Fayad
Talar Telfeyan, RN

Sena Health

Evaluating Home-Based Healing Eligibility for Acute Conditions

Anthony Wehbe DO, MBA, FACOI
Christopher Westberg
Catherine Lyons, RN
Murielle Fayad
Talar Telfeyan, RN

Sena Health

Phone a Friend: Mental Health Colleagues Provide Valuable Support Services for Psychiatric Conditions on Hospital at Home Programs

Mona Kathuria DO, FAAHPM

Kaiser Permanente Northwest

Enhancing Hospital at Home Care by Effectively Utilizing Tele-consults: A case of Severe Neutropenia Managed in the Home

Irina Zaretsky, MD
Jeffrey Epstein, MD
Sanaa Zafar, MD
Ania Wajnberg, MD
Tuyet-Trinh Truong, MD

Mount Sinai Health System