December 20, 2023
Happy Holidays from HOMERuN!
The Hospital Medicine Reengineering Network (HOMERuN) is a rapidly growing collaborative made up of more than 50 Hospital Medicine groups from academic and non-academic hospitals across the United States.
During this special time of the year, we want to acknowledge and highlight how essential your contributions to HOMERuN have been. We do important work together — work that helps our patients and colleagues and makes real impact in the world. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts! 
 
May your holiday season be full of health, rejuvenation, and happiness, whether caring for patients or with friends and loved ones.
Successes in 2023
HOMERuN COVID-19 Collaborative Teams were awarded the SHM Teamwork Award at SHM Converge 2023!
HOMERuN COVID-19 Collaborative Work Groups, comprising of Discharge Planning, Workforce Management, Provider Wellness, Clinical Pathways, Venous Thromboembolism Prevention and Management, Medical Education, Patient Communication, and Antiracism Health Equity, and Justice as well as the Executive Committee were recognized with this award for:

  • Producing wide-ranging and impactful support for hospitalists, hospitals, and patients and their family caregivers​
  • Exemplifying a nimble, scalable, near-real-time structure to share best practices and lessons for many challenges facing hospitalists and hospitals during the pandemic​
  • Connecting hospitalists across the US, rapidly sharing information to improve patient care ​
  • Epitomizing dedicated collaboration among hospitalists, working to address the biggest challenge of our careers, together
HOMERuN teams supported high-impact publications:
View list of HOMERuN publications.
HOMERuN teams presented posters at conferences:
SHM Converge 2023
  • Kangelaris K, Astik G, Keniston A, Linker A, Sakumoto M, Kulkarni S, Bowling G, Leykum L, Schnipper J, Auerbach A, Burden M. A "Necessarily Evil": Multi-institutional Rapid Qualitative Analysis of Jeopardy Systems. Society of Hospital Medicine, Austin, TX. March 2023. Poster Finalist.
  • Radhakrishnan N, Kulkarni S, Schwatka N, Linker A, Burden M, Keniston A, Mathews B, Sakumoto M, Astik G, Bowling G, Kangelaris K, Auerbach A, Kara A. Parental Leave in Hospital Medicine: We Can Do Better. Society of Hospital Medicine, Austin, TX. March 2023.
  • Narayanan M, Jenkins AM, Linker A, Woodruff A, Eniasivam A, Mathews B, Sterken D, Astik G, Fletcher M, Radhakrishnan N, Burden M, Saari S, Auerbach A, Dhawan A, Kara A. But What Does Inclusion Look Like?: Insights from Hospitalists. Society of Hospital Medicine. Austin, TX. April 2023.
Society for General Internal Medicine 2023
  • Radhakrishnan N, Kulkarni S, Schwatka N, Linker A, Burden M, Keniston A, Mathews B, Sakumoto M, Astik G, Bowling G, Kangelaris K, Auerbach A, Kara A. Parental Leave in Hospital medicine: We Can Do Better. Society of General Internal Medicine, Denver, CO. April 2023.
  • Schwatka NV, Keniston A, Burden M, Astik G, Linker, A Sakumoto M. Shared Leadership for Safety & Health at Work. Poster presentation, Society for General Internal Medicine Annual Conference, Aurora, CO. May 2023.
  • Jenkins AM, Narayanan M, Linker A, Woodruff A, Eniasivam A, Mathews B, Sterken D, Astik G, Fletcher M, Radhakrishnan N, Burden M, Saari S, Auerbach A, Dhawan A, Kara A. But What Does Inclusion Look Like?: Insights from Hospitalists. Society of General Internal Medicine. Aurora, CO. May 2023.
  • Niranjan-Azadi A, Marr R, Murphy E, Chokshi K. Designing Well-Being Interventions: Turning the Pebbles in your shoes into Actionable Stepping Stones. Mid-Atlantic SGIM, September 2023.
HOMERuN collaborators supported scholarly projects:
  • Discharge Planning group's manuscript analyzing results of their postdischarge monitoring survey has been accepted at JGIM; an analysis of clinical criteria for discharge among patients hospitalized for COVID-19 is currently under review at JGIM.
  • Workforce Planning group published 3 manuscripts and presented 2 posters at SHM Converge 2023 (1 was a poster finalist) and 2 posters at Annual SGIM 2023.They have an abstract accepted at SHM Converge 2024 and a manuscript in progress for their analysis of Jeopardy policies in HM; an abstract accepted at Annual SGIM 2024 on leadership for hospitalist safety; a manuscript drafted on driving research in HM through a national workforce collaborative.
  • Health Equity, Anti-racism, and Social Justice group presented 1 poster at SHM Converge 2023 and 1 poster at Annual SGIM 2023; a manuscript is being drafted on inclusivity in HM.
  • Burnout, Wellness, and Professional Meaning group had 1 manuscript published, presented 1 poster at mid-Atlantic GIM 2023, and had an abstract accepted to Annual SGIM 2024. They have a manuscript in progress on wellness measurement tool review and drafted a survey on study of wellness infrastructure.
  • Medical Education group is surveying HOMERuN sites to learn about onboarding hospitalist new-hires and have a manuscript in progress on exploring faculty development in HM.
  • Patient Experience Group and PFAC developing a landscape assessment of communication training for hospitalists and learners.
  • Addiction Medicine: Opioid Use Disorder and Hospital Medicine group is a newly convened group planning to submit an abstract to SHM on Hospitalist and Addiction Specialist dynamics; and developing projects looking at Institutional change management around substance-use disorder, substance-use disorder ecosystem landscape, and innovation reports.
  • The Patient and Family Advisory Council has worked closely with new research projects looking at diagnostic errors, interhospital transfers, patient preferences for older adults transitioning from the hospital to a skilled nursing facility, and reducing revisits for patients transitioning home with COPD. They have provided guidance on other studies presented at the monthly PFAC meetings.
Supported more than $7M in new grant funding:
In addition to supporting the recently completed UPSIDE study (as of September 2023, however, substudies are still in progress), HOMERuN investigators launched two AHRQ-funded research projects; one will examine how interhospital transfers might be improved, and the other will leverage learnings from our UPSIDE study to implement diagnostic process improvement into safety programs at HOMERuN sites.
HOMERuN strategic projects:
HOMERuN leadership, with contributions from across HOMERuN's teams, continue to develop strategic projects focused on accelerating the growth of academic Hospital Medicine. Examples of this work include interviews of hospital CEOs (two manuscripts in progress), planning NASEM conferences, developing a Hospital Scholar program, planning for future grant submissions, completing strategic planning activities and developing action items based on learnings, developing the role of Advisory Board members and researching members to invite, and working to define the responsibilities and structure for the Executive Committee.
Most importantly, we got to see each other in Austin!
Our next meeting will be on January 12, 2024.
Image Attributions: Vector images from vecteezy.com; Pulse Oximeter via Unsplash
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If you would like to join the HOMERuN Collaborative calls, please reach out to [email protected].