Practice Standards Council
Practice Standards 2.0 for Acute Hospital Care at Home
The Users Group Practice Standards Council developed the first national practice standards for Hospital at Home in 2023, as a supplement to research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. You can find the original research paper here.
In October 2025, the Council released an updated version, HaH Practice Standards 2.0, which are available for use with permission. Fill out this survey for access.
Ongoing Projects
Site Visit Exchange Program
The Hospital at Home Users Group Practice Standards Council is assessing the interest in, and feasibility of, a HaH Site Visit Exchange Program across the United States and Canada.
The focus of this program would be reciprocal, self-funded site visits (local or virtual), where programs can assess each other based on the HaH Practice Standards (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, March 2025). This program would be open to all active Hospital at Home Programs regardless of size or maturity.
Opportunities for participating programs:
- For the Visiting Team: Gain an in-depth understanding of a peer HaH program’s successes and challenges. Visitors may be invited to share their expertise via a presentation, leading workshops, or conducting Grand Rounds.
- For the Host Team: Receive a confidential, constructive assessment from a trusted peer HaH program and gain insights on your own program.
- For Both Programs: Build new and lasting professional relationships, expand networks for problem solving for your HaH program, and work together on improving HaH patient care.
Please complete the Site Visit Exchange Interest Form to help us gauge interest in this program.
Publications
Hospital at Home Users Group Practice Standards Council (Accepted/In press). Practice Standards for Acute Hospital Care at Home. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.19427
Practice Standards Council Membership
Council Leaders
Bruce Leff, MD (John Hopkins)
David Levine, MD, MPH, MA (Mass General Brigham)
Stephanie Murphy, DO, FHM (Dispatch Health)
Council Members
Chrisanne Timpe, MD (HealthPartners)
Christine Lum Lung, MD, MBA (Origin Healthcare)
James Kenney, MD (Ohio State University Medical)
Karen Titchener, MSN, NP, RN (Maribel Health)
Margaret Paulson, DO (Mayo Clinic)
Michael Nottidge, MD, MPH, MBA (Contessa Health)
Pamela Saengar, MD, MPH (Inbound Health)
Peter Read, DO (Unity Point)
Rajan Gurunathan, MD FACP (Hackensack Meridian Health)
Victoria Sinyak, PA-C (Mass General Brigham)