Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medical Director, Hospital at Home, Director of Clinical Operation Penn State Health
Kamia Thakur, MD is a physician executive, healthcare innovator, and nationally recognized leader in care delivery transformation. She serves as System Medical Director of Home Recovery Care at Penn State Health, where she has led the strategic development, expansion, and operational scaling of home-based acute care programs across the health system.
Under her leadership, Penn State Health’s Hospital at Home program has evolved into a high-performing, multi-site model for delivering acute hospital-level care in the home while improving patient experience, reducing unnecessary facility utilization, and supporting health system capacity management. Her work has focused on integrating clinical excellence with operational innovation, creating scalable frameworks that address modern healthcare challenges including bed capacity constraints, throughput optimization, workforce limitations, and value-based care delivery.
