Susan Keim, PhD, MSN, MS, CRNP

Director, Doctor of Nursing Practice, Executive Leadership Track and Nursing & Healthcare Administration and Health Leadership Master’s Programs, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

Titles

Course Director: HQS 6500/NURS 6500: Systems Thinking in Patient Safety

Director, Doctor of Nursing Practice, Executive Leadership Track and Nursing & Healthcare Administration and Health Leadership Master’s Programs, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

Practice Associate Professor

Nurse Scientist, Penn Medicine at Home

Senior Fellow, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research

Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

Description of Expertise

Dr. Keim’s expertise includes Healthcare leadership, patient safety, and home health care delivery.

Selected Publications

  • Rachild, J., Bowler, L., Denno, M., Flynn, D. & Keim, S. (2022). Implementation and Evaluation of a Home Healthcare Nursing Transition-to-Practice Pilot Program. Journal for Nurses in Professional Development, 38 (2), 94-100. doi: 10.1097/NND.0000000000000850.
  • Keim, S.K., Ratcliffe, S.J., Naylor, M.D., Bowles, K.H. (2020) Discharge Disposition and Patient Characteristics Associated with Thirty-Day Acute Healthcare Utilization. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.68(10): 2279-2287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jgs.1664
  • Harper, M. G., Burke, K. G., Keim, S. K., Morgan, L., & Maloney, P. (2019). Meritorious Academic Partnership Designation: Recognizing Nursing Professional Development in Graduate Curricula. Journal for Nurses in Professional Development. 35(5): 240-247.
  • Lo, Y., Lynch, S. F., Urbanowicz, R. J., Olson, R. S., Ritter, A. Z., Whitehouse, C. R., O’Connor, M., Keim, S.K., Melissa O’Connor, McDonald, M., Moore, J.H., & Bowles, K. H. (2019). Using Machine Learning on Home Health Care Assessments to Predict Fall Risk. Studies in health technology and informatics. 264: 684-688.
  • Bowles, K.H., Ratcliffe, S.J., Holmes, J.H., Keim, S., Potashnik, S., Flores, E., Humbrecht, D., Whitehouse, C.R., Naylor, M.D. (2019). Using a Decision Support Algorithm for Referrals to Post-Acute Care. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 20(4):408-413.
  • Keim S.K., Bowles K.H. (2018) Comparison of algorithm advice for post-acute care referral to usual clinical decision-making: examination of 30-day acute healthcare utilization. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings; 2017:1051-1059.
  • Bowles K.H., Ratcliffe S.J., Naylor M.D., Holmes J.H., Keim S.K., Flores E.J. (2018) Nurse Generated EHR Data Supports Post-Acute Care Referral Decision Making: Development and Validation of a Two-step Algorithm. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings; 2017:465-474.
  • O’Connor, M., Hanlon, A. L., Mauer, E., Meghani, S., Masterson-Creber, R., Marcantonio, S., Coburn, K., Van Cleave, J., Davitt, J., Riegel, B., Bowles, K. H., Keim, S., Greenberg, S. A., Sefcik, J. S., Topaz, M., Kong, D., Naylor, M. D. (2017). Identifying distinct risk profiles to predict adverse events among community-dwelling older adults. Geriatric Nursing.
  • Keim, S. (2014) Is the Patient on the Team or Not? Captain, You Need to Go. In Gordon, S., Feldman, D., & Leonard, M. (Eds.), Stories and Reflections on Teamwork in Health Care: Collaborative Caring (pp. 78-83). Cornell University Press
  • Keim S.K., Bowles K.H. (2018) Comparison of algorithm advice for post-acute care referral to usual clinical decision-making: examination of 30-day acute healthcare utilization. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings; 2017:1051-1059.