Susan K. Keim, PhD, MS, MSN CRNP is currently an Associate Practice Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania and a Nurse Scientist at Penn Medicine at Home (PMAH). Dr. Keim previously served as the founder and director of all current graduate healthcare leadership programs at Penn Nursing and continues to teach in and advise these programs. In particular, she co-teaches a course entitled “Systems Thinking in Patient Safety” which is offered inter-professionally to both graduate nursing students and physicians and “Executive Leadership in Complex Healthcare Systems” for students pursuing their Doctor of Nursing Practice in Executive Leadership.
Research projects primarily focus on examining innovative, home healthcare delivery models including the PMAH “SNF-at-Home” program (funded by an LDI/Penn Medicine Research Laboratory grant) in which target patients, eligible for a post-acute care (PAC) facility stay, opt to receive early, intensive, and expanded home healthcare clinical services instead.
Prior to Penn, Dr. Keim worked in clinical and progressive management positions at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 13 years. In addition to a PhD from Penn, she holds an MSN from Penn’s Adult and Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Program. She is board-certified as an Adult Gerontological Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and has a MS in Nursing Administration from the University of Maryland.