Strategic Plan
Vision: Catalyze the future of hospitalist work to enhance the lives of clinicians and improve patient care
Mission: Our mission is to advance the science of work in the hospitalist field by establishing best practices in work processes, pioneering innovative work models, and cultivating a thriving workforce.
Values: Clinician-centered with the goal of moving and shaping healthcare systems through partnerships; innovation; respect; challenge the status quo; expertise; collaboration; integrity; empowerment
Strategic Goals
Advance the science of hospital medicine
Project
Adapt/innovate research methods for the study of work
Promote evidence-based best practices in care
Tactic: Adapt methods from other fields
Ideas: Rapid survey, rapid quant
Compare AI coding to human coding (strategic planning)
Virtual hospitalist
Build best workplace practices
Project
Test assumptions
Foster positive and inclusive work environments
Tactic: Apply and partner on grants
Tactic: Focus on best practices
Ideas: APP physician thriving, hospital at home, parental leave, promotions, leadership, workplace violence, worker health, environments, attention, spaces
APP practices
Administrative Harm (Aug)
Focus groups on electronic communication practices (Oct)
Disseminate knowledge
Project
Share knowledge and best practices within the Hospitalist community
Partner with key stakeholders to spread innovation and improve patient care
Tactic: Each WAG member has the opportunity to develop and disseminate project
Tactic: Create dissemination opportunities through traditional and non-traditional venues
Ideas: Tweetorials
Share experiences
Qual Guest this summer
Develop our team
Project
Create opportunities for career building
Create opportunities to showcase and share work
Tactic: Share skills – mini-sessions with information sharing
Tactic: Share opportunities – more deliberate approaches to sharing opportunities for group
Ideas: Site share – Visiting Professor program – site swaps
Works in progress/sharing (inclusive of all types of writing/projects)
Structure for meetings?
Meet at national meetings
Share authorship and project lead opportunities
Collaborative Team Lead Names
Marisha Burden, MD, MBA, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Luci Leykum, MD, MBA, MSc, Dell Medical School, South Texas Veterans Health Care System
Member names and institutions:
- Gopi Astik, MD, Northwestern School of Medicine
- Hernán Carrillo Bestagno, Las Higueras Hospital
- Greg Bowling, MD, University of Texas San Antonio
- Shradha Kulkarni, MD, University of California San Francisco
- Areeba Kara, MD, University of Indiana School of Medicine
- Kirsten Kangelaris, MD, University of California San Francisco
- Areeba Kara, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine
- Michelle Knees, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Aveena Kochar, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Shradha Kulkarni, MD, University of California San Francisco
- Annie Linker, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Jonathan Pell, MD, University of Colorado
- Theodore Peng, MD, University of California, San Francisco
- Sumant Ranji, MD, University of California, San Francisco
- Matthew Sakumoto, MD, University of California San Francisco, Sutter Health
- Natalie Schwatka, PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Sarah Westergaard, MD, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
- Amy Yu, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine
How the group works to achieve HOMERuN Vision and Mission
Vision:
To transform patient care by fostering, a culture of innovation, collaboration, and support for hospital, medicine teams, dedicated to discovering, evaluating, and implementing breakthroughs in healthcare.
Mission:
Empower and nurture hospital, medicine, teams to develop and implement innovative solutions to elevate the quality, safety, equity, and value of care for hospitalized patients from hospitalization to recovery.
Values:
Patient centered, collaborative, diversity, generalizable, effective, sustainable
The Strategic Plan 2023 builds off HOMERuN’s vision and mission by aligning its goals and values with the broader framework set by HOMERuN. It shares common values, such as collaboration, innovation, and effectiveness, which are in line with HOMERuN’s commitment to fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and support for hospital medicine teams. The emphasis on innovation and research in healthcare, including the adaptation of research methods and exploration of AI coding, complements HOMERuN’s mission to develop and implement innovative solutions to elevate the quality, safety, equity, and value of care for hospitalized patients. The promotion of best practices in hospital medicine aligns with HOMERuN’s goal of discovering, evaluating, and implementing breakthroughs in healthcare. Additionally, our strategic plan prioritizes creating positive, inclusive work environments that prioritize respect and well-being, further enhancing the alignment between the Workforce Strategic Plan 2023 and HOMERuN’s vision and mission.
Current Projects:
Project
Leads
Status
Electronic communication
Michelle Knees
IP
Virtual Hospitalist
Matt Sakumoto
IP
Administrative Harm
Marisha
IP, manuscript in progress
APP practices and collaboration
Sara/Marisha
Submitting manuscript
Jeopardy Policies in Hospital Medicine rapid qualitative and quantitative survey analysis
Kirsten/Angela/Gopi
SHM abstract accepted!
Manuscript in progress
New Wave COVID-19 Surge Workforce Planning Focus Groups
Gopi
Manuscript in progress
Driving research in hospital medicine through a national workforce collaborative
Annie/Marisha
Ready to submit
Leadership for hospitalist safety
Natalie Schwatka
SGIM abstract accepted!
Submitted manuscript!
Publications:
- Westergaard S, Bowden K, Astik GJ, Bowling G, Linker A, Sakumoto M, Schwatka N, Auerbach A, Burden M. Impact of billing reforms on academic hospitalist physician and advanced practice provider collaboration: A qualitative study. J Hosp Med. 10 April 2024.
- Schwatka NV, Keniston A, Astik G, Linker A, Sakumoto M, Bowling G, Auerbach A, Burden M. Hospitalist shared leadership for safety, health, and well-being at work: United States, 2022‒2023. Am J Public Health. 2024;114(S2):S162–S166.
- Busch JI, Keniston A, Astik GJ, Auerbach A, Kangelaris KN, Kulkarni SA, Leykum LK, Linker AS, Nieto K, Pierce RG, Sakumoto M, Burden M. Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Women Hospitalists: A Mixed-Gender Qualitative Analysis. J Gen Intern Med. 2023;38(14):3180-3187.
- Kulkarni SA, Keniston A, Linker AS, Astik GJ, Kangelaris KN, Leykum LK, Sakumoto M, Auerbach A, Burden M. Building a thriving academic hospitalist workforce: A rapid qualitative analysis identifying key areas of focus in the field. J Hosp Med. 2023 Apr;18(4):329-336.
- Keniston A, Sakumoto M, Astik GJ, Auerbach A, Eid SM, Kangelaris KN, Kulkarni SA, Lee T, Leykum LK, Linker AS, Worster DT, Burden M. Adaptability on Shifting Ground: a Rapid Qualitative Assessment of Multi-institutional Inpatient Surge Planning and Workforce Deployment During the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Nov;37(15):3956-3964.
- Linker AS, Kulkarni SA, Astik GJ, Keniston A, Sakumoto M, Eid SM, Burden M, Leykum LK; HOMERuN COVID-19 Collaborative Working Group. Bracing for the Wave: a Multi-Institutional Survey Analysis of Inpatient Workforce Adaptations in the First Phase of COVID-19. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Nov;36(11):3456-3461.
Posters:
- Kulkarni S, Linker A, Astik G, Keniston A, Kangalaris K, Leykum L, Burden M. Building a Thriving Academic Hospitalist Workforce: A Rapid Qualitative Analysis to Identify Key Areas of Focus in the Field. Society of Hospital Medicine, Nashville, TN April 8, 2022.
- 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.
- 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.
Presentations:
- Linker A, Astik G, Kangelaris K. Don’t be a Lone Ranger: Creative Ways to Expand Academic Opportunities through Multi-Center Networks, Society of Hospital Medicine, 2022.
