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8th Annual Meeting Event Page

Opportunity knocks: welcoming the future of Hospital at Home

Welcome to the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Hospital at Home Users Group!

View the event agenda here.

Below you can find 2026 Hospital at Home Users Group Award winners, as well as the Poster Hall and Lightning Round poster presentations video.

Registrants will be able to access slides and a recording of the Annual Meeting after the event. As soon as the video is available, the Users Group will send out a follow up message letting folks now.

If you have any questions, please contact jdonahue@aboutscp.com.

award winners

Below are the 2026 Hospital at Home Users Group awards winners. The Hospital at Home Users Group leadership thanks everyone who submitted nominations, photos and videos for this year’s Annual Meeting.

2026 Clinician of the Year

Julie Hammond, PA-C

Lead APP — Virtual APP/Command Center Hospitalist
DispatchHealth

2026 Clinician of the Year

Maya Vankineni, MD

Medical Director, Hospital at Home
NewYork-Presbyterian

2026 Program of the Year

Stanford Health Care at Home

2026 Photo Contest Winner

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital at Home

2026 Video Contest Winner

Unidade Local de Saúde Coimbra

Watch here.

Hospital at Home Annual Meeting Poster Hall

Below is the Lightning Round presentations video, which features presentations of the runner-up posters in each category. Keep scrolling for the full poster hall, featuring all of the posters accepted for the 2026 Annual Meeting sorted into three categories: Research, Practice Innovations, and Patient Case Studies.

The Hospital at Home Users Group leadership thanks everyone who submitted posters and abstracts for this year’s Annual Meeting.

lightning round presentations

The video below is a compilation of poster presentations for the top runners-up in each category.

Research

Real-world quality, safety, and utilization outcomes of over 7000 home hospitalizations compared to brick-and-mortar hospitalization using target trial emulation.

*Winner of the Research Category*

Home Hospital Versus Brick-and Mortar Hospitalization for Heart Failure: A Target Trial Emulation

*Runner Up*

Hospital at Home Worldwide 2025: Program characteristics from the World Hospital at Home Congress survey

*Runner Up*

Hospital at Home for acute care patients with decompensated cirrhosis provides comparable clinical outcomes to hospital-based care while improving patient-centeredness: A prospective study.

*Runner Up*

Creating a Museum Workshop for an Interprofessional Home Hospital Team

Behavioral Health Home Hospital: Exploratory analysis of an ongoing pilot

Home Hospital Care for Patients Experiencing Homelessness: Proof of Concept

Assessing Community Perspectives to Inform the Design and Implementation of a Novel Hospital-Level Mobile Medicine Mobile Medical Unit in Rural North Carolina

Characterizing Hospital at Home in Canada: Developing a National Working Definition

Patient Outcomes with Hospital-at-Home in Routine Care: Evidence from a Spatial Eligibility Boundary

Computable Hospital at Home Eligibility Screening: A Portable CQL-FHIR Framework Validated on MIMIC-IV

Advancing Hospital at Home Age-Friendly Care: A National Survey of 4Ms Implementation and Opportunities

The usability, feasibility, and acceptability of augmented reality for clinicians, family caregivers, and patients during home hospital: A simulation study

Does Hospital at Home provide Age-Friendly Care aligned with the 4M framework?

Practice Innovations

Keeping Patients Home: Implementing a Standardized In-Home Blood Transfusion Workflow in Hospital At Home

         *Winner of Practice Innovation category*

In Situ Simulation as a Readiness Tool for Hospital at Home: Strengthening Workflows, Interdisciplinary Communication, and Patient Safety Before Go-Live

*Runner Up*

Scaling Hospital at Home through a Multi-System Collaborative

*Runner Up*

Building Capacity Through Innovation of Ambulatory Care Model

Leveraging AI and Automation to Help Scale a Hospital at Home Program

MyChart Bedside at the Center of Acute Care at Home

Development and Implementation of a 24/7 APP On Call Leadership Model in a Rapidly Expanding Home Hospital Program

The Clot Thickens: Optimizing VTE prophylaxis in Hospital at Home

No Dose Left Behind: Reducing Medication Waste in Hospital at Home

 

Comparison of Clinical Outcomes Between i-STAT/Point-of-Care Testing and Core Laboratory Testing in Home Hospital (HH) Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF): A Retrospective Cohort Study

Developing a National Community of Practice for Hospital at Home Nurses: A Practice Innovation to Advance Collaboration, Leadership, and Shared Learning

Acute Care Meets Home Care: Successful Nurse Retention Through a Hospital at Home Staffing Model

Rethinking the Care Team: LPN Integration to Enhance RN Efficiency in Hospital-at-Home

Turning Up the Volume on Value: Leveraging Elastomeric Pumps to Broaden Access to Hospital at Home

Preparing Trainees for Care Beyond the Hospital Walls: Development and Evaluation of a Hospital at Home Elective

Age-Friendly Healthcare System Recognition for Home Hospital Programs

Designing Safer Medication Transitions in Hospital-at-Home: Insights from Patients with Polypharmacy

Beyond the Illness: Uncovering Invisible Environmental and Clinical Barriers Through Hospital-at-Home Nursing Surveillance

A Standardized Early Discharge Bundle to Improve Home Hospital Throughput

Patient case studies

Beyond the Diagnosis: How relationship-based care in Hospital at Home led to early recognition of multiple myeloma

*Winner of the Patient Case Study category*

Frailty & Fever - Managing a Complex Older Patient in Home-Based Hospital Care (HBHC)

*Runner Up*

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