The Rural Health Forum brings together rural health leaders, clinicians, policymakers, and innovators to explore how care can reach patients beyond hospital walls. Through case studies and expert-led discussions, participants will examine practical approaches to Hospital at Home, virtual care, and remote patient monitoring in rural environments. Attendees will leave with new ideas, peer connections, and strategies to expand access to high-quality care in their communities.
Share your innovation in a fast-paced, highly interactive format designed for real-world learning and peer exchange. These @Home Briefings feature multiple simultaneous presentation stations in one room, running as a concurrent breakout experience. Presenters deliver a focused 10-minute presentation followed by 5 minutes of discussion, Q&A, and practical dialogue with a small group of engaged delegates. Attendees will rotate stations every 15 minutes, creating multiple opportunities for connection, feedback, and insight.
Bonus: Speakers receive 25% off conference registration!
We bring together the right people in the room: senior leaders, innovators, and practitioners who are actively shaping the future of care. Our gatherings are intentionally smaller and more personal, creating space for meaningful conversation, honest problem-solving, and real collaboration. You don’t just listen to experts — you meet them, talk with them, and build relationships that last far beyond the event.
The hospital at home (HaH) model is rapidly transforming healthcare delivery. What began as a niche innovation is now scaling across major health systems, driven by cost pressures, workforce shortages, and rising patient expectations.
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The healthcare industry is evolving rapidly, and hospital-at-home models are reshaping how acute care is delivered. The 6th Edition Hospital @ Home Leadership Summit (December 3–5, 2025) is the must-attend hospital at home conference for healthcare leaders looking to…
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Ila Mapp, DNP, RN, CENP, CCRN has been enhancing her nursing craft for over 20 years through travel nursing, bedside patient care, and leadership. In 2008, Ila joined the UNC Health organization advancing from clinical nurse to Nurse Manager. She has held a leadership roles within UNC Medical Center and UNC Health since 2013 with her specialty in critical care managing four specialty teams: Rapid Response, ICU Transport, Venous Access Team, and CVAD Liaison. Ila now serves as Director for Advanced Care at Home – an innovative utilization of technology providing acute care for patients in their homes. This model of healthcare incorporates the collaboration of internal and external community stakeholders inclusive of Paramedics and Home Health Nursing working together with the common goal of patient-centered care for the Triangle of North Carolina.
Dr. Blind is an experienced nurse leader and emerging thought leader in care-at-home models, with a strong focus on advancing innovative, patient-centered healthcare delivery. As Regional Director of Home Services at NYU Langone Health, she oversees Education, Professional Development, and Quality Improvement across the Home Health Care, Acute Care at Home, and Hospice settings, driving excellence in care beyond traditional hospital settings. With a clinical foundation in critical care and a background in clinical informatics and quality, Dr. Blind brings a systems-level perspective to transforming how quality care is delivered. She is a passionate advocate for expanding access to high-quality, home-based care and for elevating the role of nurses in shaping the future of healthcare.
Dr. Jared Conley MD PhD MPH is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and an emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He serves as the Associate Director of the MGH Healthcare Transformation Lab, where he leads a team of clinicians and engineers to enhance the quality and affordability of acute healthcare through technology and innovation.
He additionally serves as an advisor to MGH’s Home Hospital program and as the Medical Advisor for the World Hospital at Home Community. His digital health work is broad but is particularly focused on new, tech-enabled models of care, including hospital at home (HaH). He was recently asked to chair the first-ever HaH technology forum in March 2023.
As the Regional Physician Leader for Inpatient and Advanced Care at Home Care Experience across 21 hospitals in Kaiser Permanente Northern California (NCAL), Dr. Ashu Goyal provides strategic leadership focused on ensuring patients receive the highest level of care experience and clinical quality across hospital-based and home-based acute care settings. His expertise centers on care experience strategy, quality improvement, and physician leadership. He played a key role in the development and enterprise-wide implementation of a standardized Care Experience survey for Kaiser Permanente’s Advanced Care at Home program, supporting consistent measurement and improvement efforts across multiple markets. He earned his MD from Louisiana State University Medical School, completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Yale School of Medicine, and completed the Healthcare Executive Leadership Program
Colleen Hole serves in an advisory role, helping guide Advocate Health’s home-based care strategy, which includes scaling Hospital at Home to all markets across the Enterprise, and working to advance legislative policy, payment models and corporate partnerships that support home-based care.
Previously, Colleen served in a dual role at Atrium Health as vice president of clinical integration and chief nurse executive for Atrium Health Medical Group, responsible for non-provider clinical practice and role optimization in ambulatory care. In addition, she was responsible for strategic and operational leadership for the Atrium Health hospital at home program, which was accelerated through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thomas Kiesau is a Senior Partner with Chartis, the firm’s Chief Innovation Officer, and leader of the Digital Practice, the firm’s business unit dedicated to digital transformation planning and execution across the healthcare arena. Prior to assuming leadership of the Digital Practice, he led the firm’s Strategy Practice. With more than 20 years of experience, Mr. Kiesau has served as an advisor to many of the nation’s leading children’s hospitals, academic health centers, faculty practice groups, integrated health systems and community hospitals. He directs consulting engagements principally in the area of digital transformation, including digitally-enabled care model transformation, home as a site of care, digital consumer experience and digital operating model design and implementation.
Dr David M Levine, MD MPH MA, is an internationally renowned expert in designing and implementing advanced home-based care, using digital health technology to drive health outcomes, and evaluating the quality, safety, and experience of health care. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, clinical director of research and development for Mass General Brigham Health Care at Home, and co-director of the Harvard General Internal Medicine Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He founded Brigham’s home hospital program and co-founded and co-chairs the Hospital at Home Users Group, a collaborative of home hospital programs throughout the US and Canada. He is core faculty at Ariadne Labs, a center for health systems innovation at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham.
Michael J. Maniaci, M.D. is the Virtual Health & Home-Based Care Clinical Operations Associate Vice President for Advocate Health. In this role, he oversees the strategic and operational development of virtual health and home-based care programs, driving innovation in high-acuity care delivery models that extend clinical services beyond traditional hospital settings.
Previously, Dr. Maniaci held multiple leadership roles at Mayo Clinic, including Enterprise Physician Lead for the Advanced Care at Home program, Medical Director of Consumer Digital Product in the Center for Digital Health, and Medical Director of Mayo Clinic Hospital in Florida. His other leadership positions included Chair of the Division of Hospital Internal Medicine and Associate Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Simulation Center in Florida.
Ila Mapp, DNP, RN, CENP, CCRN has been enhancing her nursing craft for over 20 years through travel nursing, bedside patient care, and leadership. In 2008, Ila joined the UNC Health organization advancing from clinical nurse to Nurse Manager. She has held a leadership roles within UNC Medical Center and UNC Health since 2013 with her specialty in critical care managing four specialty teams: Rapid Response, ICU Transport, Venous Access Team, and CVAD Liaison. Ila now serves as Director for Advanced Care at Home – an innovative utilization of technology providing acute care for patients in their homes. This model of healthcare incorporates the collaboration of internal and external community stakeholders inclusive of Paramedics and Home Health Nursing working together with the common goal of patient-centered care for the Triangle of North Carolina.
Danielle has been working in healthcare since 2009. She entered the Hospital at Home space in 2020, helping launch the Mayo Clinic Advanced Care at Home program, while employed at Medically Home. At Medically Home Danielle also worked with the Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, and Covenant Health HaH programs. In 2024 she left Medically Home and joined Baptist Health based in Jacksonville Florida where she serves as the Operations Director responsible for building, launching, and overseeing Baptist Hospital at Home. She has her bachelor’s degree from Penn State and is currently finishing her MBA from Eastern University.
Dr. Murillo is a general surgery resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). She is currently completing a two-year NIH funded research fellowship at Boston Medical Center (BMC). Her projects include improving methodology for large database research, examining disparities in surgical outcomes, and measuring specialist collaboration. At BMC, she spearheaded a study to assess surgeons’ hospital at home (HaH) awareness and evaluate their perspectives on integrating HaH into postoperative care, which was recently published in Journal of Surgical Research. She hopes to continue advancing HaH into the perioperative space upon her return to clinical activities at BIDMC.
Dr. O’Shea is interested in applying his training in clinical medicine and business administration to build and refine systems of care for hospitalized adults and children. In addition to serving as a hospitalist, he works as a physician advisor to support clinical operations across UNC Hospitals.
Dr. Margaret Paulson is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. She has experience in patient care across the spectrum of Internal Medicine. She currently practices as a rural hospitalist in the Mayo Clinic Health System in the Northwest Wisconsin (NWWI) region and leads the Home Health team. In 2019, she became the Medical Director for NWWI in the exciting establishment of Mayo Clinic’s Advanced Care at Home (ACH) program, an innovative platform offering hospital-level care in the home. The launch of ACH allowed Dr. Paulson to call upon her experience in outpatient and inpatient Internal Medicine to expand high quality telemedicine in transformational ways for Mayo Clinic.
Vance Purcell, MBA, BSN, RN, PHN, is the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Advanced Care at Home's Clinical Nursing Director, leading Clinical Operations for the growing service line. He joined the department in December 2023 after spending nearly 10 years leading one of KP's largest Home Health and Hospice programs in Sacramento, California. Since joining the ACAH team, he designed the nursing infrastructure and worked with all vendor partners to grow and develop the service, including designing and building the nursing leadership structure from the ground up and designing the care transitions team responsible for service line throughput. Additionally, he leads key initiatives in Care Experience, Performance Improvement, and Expansion Training.
Fitzgerald Shepherd is the Medical Director of Boston Medical Center Hospital at Home and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.
Dr. Shepherd practices Hospital Medicine at Boston Medical Center and leads the Hospital at Home unit, where he is focused on expanding access to high-value, patient-centered acute care in the home setting. His leadership emphasizes care innovation, health equity, interdisciplinary collaboration, and improving outcomes for medically complex patients.
AnnMarie Short, MSN, RN, PCCN, NE‑BC is an experienced nurse leader with 28 years at NYU Langone Health. She holds a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) and is board certified as a Nurse Executive (NE‑BC). Her background includes 28 years in medical‑surgical and telemetry nursing and more than 23 years in nursing leadership.
Since joining NYU Langone’s Home Hospital program in September 2022, AnnMarie has served as Nurse Manager, providing daily operational oversight for the delivery of acute‑level care in the home. She has been instrumental in the development and implementation of Hospital at Home workflows, helping to operationalize safe, scalable, and high‑quality care outside the traditional inpatient setting. AnnMarie leads interdisciplinary collaboration, drives nursing quality initiatives, and supports innovation that strengthens clinical excellence, patient experience.
Eliza “Pippa” Shulman, DO, MPH, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on providing advanced care in the home. She joined Dispatch Health’s leadership team during the company’s merger with Medically Home, where she served as Chief Medical Officer and Chief Strategy Officer. As the clinical architect behind many of Medically Home’s most innovative models, Dr. Shulman helped shape what is now part of Dispatch Health’s approach to high-acuity care in the home.
Ms. Smoak has been with the Agency for Health Care Administration since August 1995. She is the Deputy Secretary of the Health Care Policy and Oversight Division. The Division licenses and/or certifies and regulates 30 different providers, including hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home health agencies. In total, the Division licenses, certifies, regulates, or provides exemptions for more than 50,000 providers.
Ms. Smoak is also the State Survey Agency Director for the State of Florida and holds a Master of Science in Health with the program emphasis in Aging Studies. She is also a Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional (QIDP). In 2009 and 2017, she received Survey & Certification Achievement Awards, presented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for her work in Survey and Certification.
Gregory Snyder is a clinician, AAHCM Board Member and physician executive, leading technology-enabled care delivery models to improve healthcare quality and safety. He practices hospital medicine at Mass General Brigham Newton-Wellesley, and is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Mass General Healthcare Transformation Lab. Greg is Clinical Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs, and Adjunct Faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He is focused on scaling Hospital at Home programs and home-based acute care as Vice President of Clinical Strategy & Quality Improvement for Medically Home. Greg has partnered with diverse healthcare technology ventures to improve healthcare quality, safety, value, and experience.
Sina Torabi is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Medsien, leading provider of scalable remote care management designed to foster continuity and a patient-first experience. He has focused on building physician-led care models that expand access, maximize patient engagement, and operate effectively at scale. Prior to Medsien, Sina co-founded and served as CEO of Mosaikx. His work is driven by a mission to improve access to healthcare for vulnerable patient populations through care delivery models led by physicians and optimized by technology.
Lisa is a nationally recognized expert on hospital at home law, policy and advocacy. During her more than two-decade career she has held numerous positions with CMS ranging from litigating attorney to member of the CMS-CDC COVID-19 Task Force. As a member of the task force, she helped draft the Hospital Without Walls waivers, and then co-led the team that wrote and implemented the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver. In addition, she also led the CDC/CMS nationwide nursing home strike force initiative to assist nursing homes that were experiencing large COVID-19 outbreaks. After leaving government in 2021, Lisa led the advocacy team at Medically Home, which was instrumental in getting Congress to extend the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver in 2022 and getting the House and Senate to introduce bills for a five-year extension of the waiver in 2024.
As the Chief Medical Officer for Mount Sinai at Home, Dr. Truong creates vision to deliver patient-centered quality care to patients in their homes. She has implemented strategies to launch, grow and integrate programs on the continuum of home-based care – Hospital at Home, Rehabilitation at Home, Palliative Care at Home and other home-care clinical services within the Mount Sinai at Home portfolio. She is passionate about addressing health equity and believes that home-based care, particularly acute at home care is well-positioned and is an important tool to advance health equity. Dr. Truong graduated from Swarthmore College in Economics and Biology, obtained her MD at Temple University Katz School of Medicine, and completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Mount Sinai.
Dr. Cindy Yu is the Director of the Home Hospitalist Unit at Mass General Brigham, where she oversees physicians across the Mass General Brigham Home Hospital program. In this role, she leads and supports collaboration between physicians and APPs to ensure high‑quality, team‑based care in the home setting. Dr. Yu is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and directs the Massachusetts General Hospital Internal Medicine Resident Home Hospital elective. She practices hospital medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and also serves as a home hospitalist with Mass General Brigham Home Hospital, combining clinical care, education, and program leadership.
Colleen Hole serves in an advisory role, helping guide Advocate Health’s home-based care strategy, which includes scaling Hospital at Home to all markets across the Enterprise, and working to advance legislative policy, payment models and corporate partnerships that support home-based care.
Previously, Colleen served in a dual role at Atrium Health as vice president of clinical integration and chief nurse executive for Atrium Health Medical Group, responsible for non-provider clinical practice and role optimization in ambulatory care. In addition, she was responsible for strategic and operational leadership for the Atrium Health hospital at home program, which was accelerated through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Leff is Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research focuses on novel models of care delivery for older adults with an emphasis on home and community-based models of care, issues related to multi-morbidity and serious illness, risk prediction, and quality measurement and improvement. He Co-leads the HaH Users Group and the National Home-Based Primary Care Learning Network. He is Founding Executive Editor of the Journal of Advanced Home Medicine, past -President of the American Academy of Home Care Medicine, and currently serves as a Trustee of the ABIM Foundation.
Dr David M Levine, MD MPH MA, is an internationally renowned expert in designing and implementing advanced home-based care, using digital health technology to drive health outcomes, and evaluating the quality, safety, and experience of health care. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, clinical director of research and development for Mass General Brigham Health Care at Home, and co-director of the Harvard General Internal Medicine Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He founded Brigham’s home hospital program and co-founded and co-chairs the Hospital at Home Users Group, a collaborative of home hospital programs throughout the US and Canada. He is core faculty at Ariadne Labs, a center for health systems innovation at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham.
Michael J. Maniaci, M.D. is the Virtual Health & Home-Based Care Clinical Operations Associate Vice President for Advocate Health. In this role, he oversees the strategic and operational development of virtual health and home-based care programs, driving innovation in high-acuity care delivery models that extend clinical services beyond traditional hospital settings.
Previously, Dr. Maniaci held multiple leadership roles at Mayo Clinic, including Enterprise Physician Lead for the Advanced Care at Home program, Medical Director of Consumer Digital Product in the Center for Digital Health, and Medical Director of Mayo Clinic Hospital in Florida. His other leadership positions included Chair of the Division of Hospital Internal Medicine and Associate Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Simulation Center in Florida.
Ila Mapp, DNP, RN, CENP, CCRN has been enhancing her nursing craft for over 20 years through travel nursing, bedside patient care, and leadership. In 2008, Ila joined the UNC Health organization advancing from clinical nurse to Nurse Manager. She has held a leadership roles within UNC Medical Center and UNC Health since 2013 with her specialty in critical care managing four specialty teams: Rapid Response, ICU Transport, Venous Access Team, and CVAD Liaison. Ila now serves as Director for Advanced Care at Home – an innovative utilization of technology providing acute care for patients in their homes. This model of healthcare incorporates the collaboration of internal and external community stakeholders inclusive of Paramedics and Home Health Nursing working together with the common goal of patient-centered care for the Triangle of North Carolina.
Constantinos (Taki) Michaelidis, MD, MBA, MS cares for patients as a Virtual Home Hospitalist in the UMass Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC) Home Hospital program where he is Medical Director and faculty in the Program in Digital Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Prior to joining UMMMC, he was Senior Medical Director in the Atrius Health home hospital program. There, he supported local and national home hospital program development and designed and scaled new acute and post-acute home-based care models for a predominantly frail, medically complex and home-bound population in eastern Massachusetts.
Dr. Richard Rothman is a Regional Chief Medical Operations Officer for Cleveland Clinic Florida and the Vice Chief for Integrated Hospital Care Institute for Cleveland Clinic. In his role, he oversees Cleveland Clinic Hospital Care at Home. Dr. Rothman graduated from St. George’s University School of Medicine in 2009. He completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in Boston, Ma, at the Massachusetts General Hospital and completed both his internship and residency at the Lahey Clinic, also in Massachusetts. He received his diplomate in Internal Medicine from the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is active member of the American College of Physicians and Society of Hospital Medicine.
Hemali Sudhalkar, MD, MPH is an Internal Medicine Hospitalist and Palliative Care physician at The Permanente Medical Group in San Jose, CA. She serves as the Regional Medical Director of Hospital Quality and Care Experience for the 21 medical centers within Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California region. Dr. Sudhalkar received her medical education in India and earned a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from Emory University. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Kaiser Permanente in Santa Clara, CA. Dr. Sudhalkar is dedicated to ensuring that every patient receives the highest quality care, at the right place and time, with a holistic focus on the needs of both the patient and their family. She has a Six Sigma Black Belt in process improvement and actively applies lean methodologies to enhance care delivery.
As the Chief Medical Officer for Mount Sinai at Home, Dr. Truong creates vision to deliver patient-centered quality care to patients in their homes. She has implemented strategies to launch, grow and integrate programs on the continuum of home-based care – Hospital at Home, Rehabilitation at Home, Palliative Care at Home and other home-care clinical services within the Mount Sinai at Home portfolio. She is passionate about addressing health equity and believes that home-based care, particularly acute at home care is well-positioned and is an important tool to advance health equity. Dr. Truong graduated from Swarthmore College in Economics and Biology, obtained her MD at Temple University Katz School of Medicine, and completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Mount Sinai.
Over the past five years, hospital at home has evolved from a promising innovation to a rapidly expanding care model across the United States. Accelerated by the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver during the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems have piloted, scaled, and refined programs delivering hospital-level care in patients’ homes. This opening presentation will examine the major milestones, evidence, and policy developments that have shaped the field since 2020 and set the stage for what’s to come. Speakers will explore lessons learned from implementation, clinical outcomes, payment and regulatory shifts, and health system adoption. Looking forward, the discussion will highlight key opportunities and challenges that will define the next phase of hospital at home with the five-year waiver extension.
Transforming healthcare requires more than new technologies, it demands a focus on the people at the center of care. This opening session will share how health systems can implement innovative care models while preserving the human experience. The presenter will discuss strategies for effective change management, fostering collaboration, and empowering care teams to deliver compassionate, high-quality care. Attendees will leave with actionable insights to balance operational efficiency, clinical outcomes, and the personal needs of patients, demonstrating that true innovation starts with human-centered leadership.
As health systems refine their hospital-at-home models, the next challenge is disciplined, scalable growth. This session will explore how organizations are successfully evolving from single-site programs to coordinated, multi-state care delivery. Leaders will discuss frameworks for internal spread, market prioritization, regulatory navigation, workforce enablement, and consistent quality oversight across diverse geographies. Attendees will gain practical strategies, lessons learned, and tools to support sustainable expansion while preserving clinical excellence, operational reliability, and patient experience as programs grow.
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As Advanced Care at Home programs scale, measuring and improving care experience requires approaches tailored to care delivered outside traditional inpatient settings. Kaiser Permanente Northern California’s Advanced Care at Home program has developed a regional, multidisciplinary care experience structure to evaluate performance, operationalize patient feedback, and drive improvement across a large, high-volume program. In this session, the presenters will share their survey performance relative to HCAHPS. They will also discuss their care experience framework and how they integrate survey performance, patient comments (enhanced by analytic tools), and leadership rounding to generate actionable insights and guide targeted interventions.
Join this 75-minute hands-on hackathon to design the “dream state” waiver for hospital-at-home programs beyond the current five-year extension, expiring in 2030. Small group teams will tackle the big questions: which regulations should continue, stop, or start? What does the final, ideal waiver look like? Facilitators will guide teams in balancing flexibility, scalability, patient safety, and program sustainability. Teams will present their proposals for peer and expert feedback, leaving participants with innovative, actionable strategies to inform advocacy, program planning, and long-term growth.
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Join hospital-at-home leaders as they explore designing and implementing post-surgical hospital-at-home programs. Building on Boston Medical Center’s research on surgeon awareness and engagement, the panel will cover change management, workflow development, and patient intake strategies. Learn how hospital-at-home, early-supported discharge, and home-based care models support surgical patients, and gain practical insights from case studies highlighting successful implementation, lessons learned, and strategies to optimize hospital flow and patient outcomes.
This session will provide a practical roadmap for organizations launching or expanding hospital at home programs, offering guidance from initial design through long-term sustainability. The speaker will outline essential early decisions around regulatory readiness, staffing models, workflows, and telehealth integration, choices that shape both immediate success and future scalability. Participants will learn how to build infrastructure with growth in mind, engage stakeholders across clinical and operational teams, and develop strong internal and external partnerships. Drawing on lessons from their recent implementation nationwide, the session will highlight common pitfalls, proven strategies, and adaptable frameworks that support safe, high-acuity care at home and enduring program resilience.
Launching a successful hospital-at-home program requires more than clinical innovation, it demands effective change management across operations, culture, technology, and care delivery. This session will share practical strategies for building organizational alignment, engaging stakeholders, and establishing sustainable workflows during the critical early years of program development. Attendees will gain insights into overcoming common implementation barriers, scaling multidisciplinary collaboration, and driving adoption across health systems. Through real-world lessons and operational perspectives, this session will provide leaders with actionable approaches to create resilient, patient-centered hospital-at- home programs that support long-term success.
As healthcare systems expand hospital-at-home programs, agentic AI is emerging as a powerful tool to enhance care coordination, operational efficiency, and patient engagement. This forward-looking session will explore how AI agents can support clinical decision-making, automate workflows, optimize resource allocation, and improve the patient experience across decentralized care models. Attendees will gain insight into practical applications of agentic AI, implementation considerations, and the evolving role of intelligent systems in home-based acute care. This session will highlight opportunities for health systems to responsibly leverage AI while building scalable, high-performing hospital-at-home programs.
Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) play a critical role in hospital-at-home programs, bridging clinical expertise, quality improvement, and care coordination. This roundtable will explore how CNSs contribute to patient assessment, care planning, staff education, and protocol development, ensuring safe and effective delivery of acute care at home. Participants will discuss strategies for integrating CNSs into multi-disciplinary teams, leveraging their expertise to support clinical decision-making, and measuring outcomes that demonstrate value. Attendees will engage in peer dialogue about challenges, successes, and innovative approaches, gaining practical insights into maximizing the CNS role to strengthen hospital-at-home programs.
*Limited to 20 participants. Sign up at the registration desk.
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(Small Group Presentations – 15 minutes each, repeated 4 x over one hour) Please sign up at the Registration Desk. Registrants will be assigned a group and station at which to begin. Each group will view four (4) 15-minute presentations in total across the hour.
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Redefining Surgical Recovery: NYU Home Hospital’s Expansion of Home-Based Acute Care
This session will explore NYU Home Hospital’s innovative expansion of its acute care program to include select robotic surgical patients recovering at home. Participants will learn how the team designed safe, technology-enabled pathways for post-operative monitoring, virtual surgical follow-up, and coordinated in-home clinical care. The session will highlight key learning objectives, including identifying criteria for surgical patient selection, implementing multidisciplinary workflows that reduce complications, and applying remote monitoring tools to support high-acuity recovery. Attendees will gain practical insights into improving patient experience, optimizing resource utilization, and establishing scalable processes that extend acute surgical care beyond the traditional hospital setting.
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Station 3
The Power of Sims for Hospital at Home
Simulating core workflows of acute care at home is key to build cooperation and confidence and an understanding of how to ensure patient safety among interdisciplinary teams before the launch of a new hospital at home program. Simulations allow teams including physicians, nurses, paramedics, operational staff and service providers to tactically experience workflows, communication, and technology pathways to both solidify deep learning of traditional and HaH-specific training concepts and to troubleshoot any challenges that arise. In this presentation, members of THA (Tripp Hollander Advisors) will share best practices on simulations from the recent February 2026 launch of Baptist Health which included over 50 clinical and operational participants.
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As hospital-at-home programs expand nationwide, organizations are proactively preparing for evolving regulatory and accreditation expectations. This session will explore how programs can utilize Hospital at Home Users Group standards and best practices to strengthen quality, patient safety, operational consistency, and program governance. Speakers will discuss practical approaches to assessing program readiness, standardizing workflows, improving documentation, and aligning interdisciplinary care processes. Attendees will gain actionable strategies to identify operational gaps, support scalable growth, and prepare their programs for future accreditation and regulatory frameworks through collaborative learning and utilization of peer-developed standards and operational guidance.
Patients do not experience care in isolated episodes, yet much of healthcare delivery is still structured that way. This session will explore how organizations are embedding care continuity into everyday clinical operations to create more connected, patient-first care experiences. Through real-world examples and first-hand perspectives from healthcare leaders and providers, panelists will discuss strategies for improving coordination across care settings, understanding patients’ emotional and physical needs beyond the point of care, and reducing administrative burden on care teams. Attendees will gain practical insights into successful care continuity implementations that strengthen engagement, clinical quality, and long-term operational performance.
(Small Group Presentations – 15 minutes each, repeated 4 x over one hour) Please sign up at the Registration Desk. Registrants will be assigned a group and station at which to begin. Each group will view four (4) 15-minute presentations in total across the hour.
Station 1
Redefining Surgical Recovery: NYU Home Hospital’s Expansion of Home-Based Acute Care
This session will explore NYU Home Hospital’s innovative expansion of its acute care program to include select robotic surgical patients recovering at home. Participants will learn how the team designed safe, technology-enabled pathways for post-operative monitoring, virtual surgical follow-up, and coordinated in-home clinical care. The session will highlight key learning objectives, including identifying criteria for surgical patient selection, implementing multidisciplinary workflows that reduce complications, and applying remote monitoring tools to support high-acuity recovery. Attendees will gain practical insights into improving patient experience, optimizing resource utilization, and establishing scalable processes that extend acute surgical care beyond the traditional hospital setting.
Station 2
TBD
Station 3
The Power of Sims for Hospital at Home
Simulating core workflows of acute care at home is key to build cooperation and confidence and an understanding of how to ensure patient safety among interdisciplinary teams before the launch of a new hospital at home program. Simulations allow teams including physicians, nurses, paramedics, operational staff and service providers to tactically experience workflows, communication, and technology pathways to both solidify deep learning of traditional and HaH-specific training concepts and to troubleshoot any challenges that arise. In this presentation, members of THA (Tripp Hollander Advisors) will share best practices on simulations from the recent February 2026 launch of Baptist Health which included over 50 clinical and operational participants.
Station 4
TBD
(Small Group Presentations – 15 minutes each, repeated 4 x over one hour) Please sign up at the Registration Desk. Registrants will be assigned a group and station at which to begin. Each group will view four (4) 15-minute presentations in total across the hour.
Staffing is the backbone of a successful hospital-at-home program, yet designing and sustaining the right team requires careful planning. This session will explore staffing strategies across the full spectrum of hospital-at-home care, including provider staffing models, remote clinical teams, and hybrid in-home and virtual workflows. Speakers will share best practices for recruiting, training, and retaining clinicians and support staff, managing scheduling and coverage across dispersed geographies, and leveraging telehealth and technology to optimize care delivery. Attendees will leave with actionable approaches to build resilient, scalable teams that maintain quality, patient safety, and staff engagement in hospital-at-home programs.
As health systems expand hospital-at-home programs under the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver, understanding federal reporting requirements is critical for compliance and program sustainability. This session will provide a practical overview of the data submission, quality reporting, and operational documentation required by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for participating hospitals. Experts will discuss common challenges, evolving expectations, and strategies for building internal reporting infrastructure that supports both regulatory compliance and program evaluation. Attendees will gain clear guidance on aligning clinical workflows, technology platforms, and quality metrics to successfully meet CMS requirements while scaling Hospital at Home services.
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Hospital-at-home programs depend on coordinated logistics, reliable staffing, and uninterrupted technology, making them particularly vulnerable to external disruptions. Government shutdowns, severe weather events, public emergencies, and large-scale citywide disruptions can all affect patient safety, workforce availability, supply chains, and virtual care infrastructure. This session will explore how leading programs are developing emergency preparedness and contingency models specifically for hospital-at-home operations. The session will share practical strategies for maintaining clinical continuity, adjusting staffing models, communicating with patients and partners, and coordinating with health systems and local emergency management agencies. Attendees will gain actionable insights to strengthen resilience and ensure safe care delivery during unpredictable events.
As hospital-at-home programs expand nationwide, integrating Medicaid populations presents both a significant opportunity and a complex challenge. This session will explore how health systems, payers, and policymakers are designing models that effectively serve Medicaid beneficiaries while ensuring sustainable reimbursement and equitable access to high-acuity care at home. The discussion will include emerging state Medicaid policies, managed care strategies, and innovative partnerships that support adoption. Attendees will gain practical insights on regulatory pathways, payment models, and operational considerations needed to extend hospital-at-home programs to diverse and underserved populations while advancing value-based care and health equity.
Technology and telehealth are critical enablers for scaling hospital-at-home programs while maintaining high-quality, patient-centered care. This expert panel will bring together leaders from health systems, technology providers, and clinical operations to explore strategies for integrating remote monitoring, virtual visits, and data analytics into care workflows. Panelists will discuss overcoming implementation challenges ensuring interoperability, and leveraging digital tools to enhance patient engagement and clinical decision-making. Attendees will gain practical insights into building scalable, technology-enabled programs, optimizing telehealth adoption, and using innovative solutions to expand access, improve outcomes, and drive operational efficiency in hospital-at-home initiatives.
Rural communities face unique healthcare challenges, including limited hospital access, workforce shortages, and higher rates of chronic illness. This session will explore how hospital-at-home programs are transforming care delivery in rural settings by bringing hospital-level care directly to patients’ homes. Attendees will hear real-world success stories, lessons learned, and strategies to overcome barriers such as staffing, technology integration, and reimbursement limitations. This session will provide actionable insights for health system leaders seeking to expand access, improve patient outcomes, and create sustainable, high-acuity care models in rural communities.
Delivering hospital-level care in the home has demonstrated strong outcomes in urban and suburban settings, but questions remain about its feasibility in rural communities. This session will present findings from a recent randomized controlled trial examining the implementation of home hospital in rural settings. The study evaluated clinical outcomes, patient experience, operational challenges, and infrastructure requirements unique to rural environments. Attendees will gain insights into care delivery models, technology and workforce considerations, and policy implications for expanding hospital programs beyond metropolitan areas while maintaining quality, safety, and scalability.
This session will explore how the recent federal $50 billion Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program is catalyzing RPM development broadly and having ripple effects in non-rural settings. Attendees will learn how health systems, state governments and other stakeholders are leveraging this unprecedented funding as an accelerant to modernize care delivery, address workforce shortages, and improve outcomes across geographies, all through best-in-class RPM.
This session will highlight how state health leaders are driving innovation through the Rural Health Transformation Program. Featuring officials from Florida and Oklahoma state health agencies, the discussion will explore policy strategies, funding pathways, and operational lessons supporting Hospital at Home models in rural communities. Speakers will share real-world experiences addressing workforce shortages, infrastructure barriers, and regulatory challenges while improving access and outcomes. Attendees will gain practical insights into cross-state collaboration, scalable program design, and the critical role of public health leadership in advancing equitable, high-quality care for rural populations nationwide.
Hospital at Home offers a powerful opportunity to expand access to high-acuity care in rural communities, yet social, cultural, and structural barriers continue to limit who can safely participate. This session will explore how housing conditions, broadband gaps, caregiver availability, geographic isolation, and social drivers of health shape eligibility and outcomes. Participants will learn how leading programs are designing inclusive models, leveraging community partnerships, language-aligned and culturally responsive care, interpreter-supported workflows, and creative technology solutions to reach diverse rural populations. The discussion will highlight practical strategies to advance equity, strengthen patient trust, and support sustainable, scalable Hospital at Home programs.
This panel session will showcase real-world case studies of rural health systems that are successfully implementing hospital-at-home programs. Leaders from diverse communities will share how they are addressing challenges related to geography, workforce limitations, and constrained resources while delivering high-acuity care in patients’ homes. Attendees will gain practical insights into program design, telehealth integration, community engagement, and patient-centered care models. The discussion will highlight measurable outcomes, key lessons learned, and scalable best practices. Participants will leave with actionable strategies to expand access, enhance quality, and build sustainable hospital-at-home programs in rural settings.
Rural hospital-at-home programs rely on technology to deliver high-acuity care at a distance. This session will highlight innovative remote monitoring tools, telehealth platforms, and data-driven approaches that enable clinicians to safely manage patients in their homes. Attendees will explore case studies demonstrating improved outcomes, reduced hospital admissions, and enhanced patient satisfaction. The discussion will also cover integration challenges, technology adoption strategies, and practical tips for scaling virtual care solutions in rural communities, equipping health system leaders with actionable insights to strengthen their hospital-at-home programs through effective digital care delivery.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to reshape healthcare delivery, with particular promise for rural hospital-at-home programs. From predictive analytics that identify patients at risk of deterioration to remote monitoring tools that support virtual care, AI can enhance safety, efficiency, and access in resource-limited settings. This session will explore real-world applications of AI in rural H@H programs, highlighting innovations in clinical decision support, workflow optimization, and patient engagement. Speakers will discuss opportunities, challenges, and ethical considerations, providing attendees with practical insights into how AI can strengthen care delivery, expand access, and improve outcomes for rural patients receiving hospital-level care at home.
As the Rural Health Forum concludes, this interactive workshop will bring together key themes, lessons learned, and strategic insights from throughout the day’s program. Participants will engage in facilitated discussion focused on translating innovative ideas into actionable rural care transformation strategies, with particular attention to the evolving role of hospital-at-home models. The session will also provide a practical walkthrough of what it may look like for a health system to pursue Rural Health Transformation funding, including readiness considerations, partnership opportunities, and implementation planning. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of next steps to advance sustainable, patient-centered rural healthcare delivery.
The Hospital at Home Leadership Summit is the premier gathering for healthcare leaders, innovators, and stakeholders driving the expansion and success of home-based acute care models. Returning for its 7th edition, this event serves as a hub for collaboration, thought leadership, and actionable insights tailored to advancing hospital-at-home programs.
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