2023 Excellence in Teamwork
This award-winning team connected hospitalists across the U.S., rapidly sharing best practice and lessons learned to improve patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Hospital Medicine Reengineering Network (HOMERuN) COVID-19 Collaborative Group produced wide-ranging and impactful support for hospitalists, hospitals, and patients and their family caregivers during the pandemic’s darkest days. HOMERuN exemplifies a nimble, scalable, near-real-time structure to share best practice and lessons for many challenges facing hospitalists and hospitals beyond COVID-19.
HOMERuN connected hospitalists across the U.S., rapidly sharing best practice and lessons learned to improve patient care. Video calls with breakout sessions facilitated more than 150 members providing real-time data collection and dissemination to and from as many as 80 medical centers. E-mail summaries, surveys, newsletters, and an accompanying website provided a broader hospital-medicine audience insight into numerous institutions’ approach to evaluating and managing patients with COVID-19.
The team comprehensively addressed topics ranging from clinical pathways to workforce planning to discharge criteria. HOMERuN also generated multiple peer-reviewed publications and presentations. The number of HOMERuN institutions and participants grew throughout the pandemic, a testament to its perceived value to participants.
Perhaps HOMERuN’s greatest impact occurred early in the pandemic when hospitalists were overwhelmed by a deluge of new information — all while caring for a torrent of patients. HOMERuN provided a safe harbor in that storm; a reliable venue to find reassurance that others were similarly struggling and a source of fortifying knowledge. The HOMERuN team epitomized dedicated collaboration among hospitalists, working to address the biggest challenge of our careers, together.
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