Karen Titchener
International Advisor
I have 22 years’ experience of developing and implementing 6 Hospital at Home programs in both urban and rural setting for the NHS in the UK and now working in the USA for the last 5 years where I am VP of Hospital at Home for Maribel Health helping health systems set up their hospital at home programs. Also in the USA, I worked for 5 years at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, building an oncology Hospital at Home program in both urban and rural Utah. The Huntsman was one of the first 6 to have been given the CMS waiver. As an international speaker on Hospital at Home my expertise is in developing and operationalizing new Hospital at Home programs with the emphasis on gap analysis, strategic and clinical engagement, developing clinical pathways, building the operations team and process, and working in an integrated and collaborative way. The largest program to date that I established was in London where I had a budget of £1,000,000 and had over 85 staff with around 3000 patient admitted in an operational year. I was awarded a Winston Churchill fellowship in 2016 which I used to travel to Australia and New Zealand to study their Hospital at Home programs. I was a co-author on a recent publication in the Journal of Clinical Oncology sharing our outcomes for the first 15 months of clinical operations for the oncology Hospital at Home, and first author on a publication in the NEJM Catalyst 2021. I am currently one of the directors for the UK Hospital at Home society and have been involved in that since it began 2 years ago and also involved in the USA Hospital at Home users’ group since its inception.