HITH for the Hospital Executive and Manager

• Develop an advanced understanding of Hospital in the Home (HITH), including its evolution, clinical scope, enabling technologies, and role in contemporary healthcare systems
• Critically analyse the operational, logistical, and governance challenges associated with designing and delivering safe, scalable HITH services
• Evaluate funding models, quality frameworks, and system structures that shape effective and sustainable HITH service delivery
• Design actionable solutions to optimise, expand, or redesign HITH services within your organisational context.
• Applied leadership approaches to influence, engaging senior clinicians, managers, and external stakeholders
• Collaborate with experts in HITH to optimise, expand, or redesign HITH services within your organisational context.

• Understand HITH’s role in modern health systems
• Global HITH models and benchmarks
• Evaluating and Understanding Performance as an Executive
• Resource planning (staffing ratios, logistics)
• Accreditation and compliance requirements (NSQHS standards)
• The ‘right’ technology for HITH
• Barriers in HITH (culture, clinician resistance, risk aversion) and addressing resistance (specialists, ED, nursing)
• Embedding HITH into organisational culture

This course is designed for senior health leaders, executives, and accountable officers working in Hospital in the Home (HITH). It is particularly suited to those responsible for service design, expansion, optimisation, and cross-organisational leadership. Participants should have leadership experience and bring a current service challenge to work on during the program.

Participants who complete the course will receive a Griffith University Certificate of Completion and may be eligible for continuing professional development (CPD) recognition, depending on their professional body.

Join us for a highly interactive, full-day face-to-face workshop exploring the strategy, leadership and practical realities of Hospital in the Home (HITH).

Across the day, you’ll discover how HITH has evolved, the evidence underpinning contemporary models of care, and the financial, technological, workforce and governance considerations shaping its future.

Drawing on Australian and international experience, the workshop will tackle the real-world challenges of designing, leading and scaling HITH services, from navigating organisational culture and executive support to building sustainable models capable of delivering increasingly complex care.

The day culminates in an interactive panel discussion where participants bring forward their own HITH challenges and work with experienced leaders to explore practical solutions.

Key Readings

The Journal of Advanced Home Medicine : jahm.io

Montalto M. Hospital at Home in 10 years—Here, borrow my binoculars. J Intern Med. 2026; 300: 153–163.

Montalto M, McElduff P, Hardy K ‘Homeward bound: Features of Hospital in the Home use in major Australian hospitals 2011-2017’ Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 22-27 doi: 10.5694/mja2.50599

Amith, I., Montalto, M., Bransgrove, N., Hutchinson, J., New, R.H., Bryant, P., Clarke, R. and Rogers, B.A. (2026), A nationwide snapshot of Hospital in the Home service provision in Australia. Intern Med J. https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.70588

Ko SQ, Montalto M, Chua CE, et al. So, What If Something Happens (SWISH): an International Multi-centre Retrospective Cohort Study of Escalations Back to Hospital during Hospital at Home Admissions. The Journal of Advanced Home Medicine. 2026;1(1):3-13. doi:10.64919/001c.2855060

Montalto M ‘The 500 bed hospital that isn’t there: the Victorian Department of Health review of Hospital in the Home’ Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 598 – 601

For over 30 years Assoc Prof Michael Montalto has been involved in clinical management, research, policy development, and international expansion of Hospital in the Home. He achieved a PhD in Hospital in the Home evaluation in 1999 at the University of Melbourne. In 1994 he was the inaugural International HITH Fellow at Harvard School of Public Health. Aside from 30 years of clinical experience in direct HITH management, he has consulted to Singapore Health and Island Health Vancouver for the introduction of HITH in those areas, Metro Nth HITH evaluation, and other reviews. He was awarded the Nicholas Collins Award by the Australasian HITH Society in 1994. He is currently also a Scientific Convener for the World Hospital in the Home Conference, and the Founding Executive Editor of the new Journal of Advanced Home Medicine.

Laureen Hines is a healthcare leader with more than 25 years’ clinical and corporate experience. She has played a pivotal role in shaping Hospital in the Home services in Queensland, leading establishment of a major metropolitan. For 14 years she has held the statewide HITH portfolio, authored Queensland’s first HITH clinical guidelines, led scale and spread initiatives, and champions integrated, patient centred care and is a Board member of the Hospital in the Home Society of Australasia.

Dr Andrew Rixon is a leadership coach, researcher and Director of Engagement at the Department of Management with the Griffith Business School. Andrew has global experience in executive education, innovation, and leadership and change and has a core research focus on health leadership with a specific interest in emergency medicine and narrative approaches to leadership development.  
https://experts.griffith.edu.au/40423-andrew-rixon