Rural Spotlight

April 23, 2026

Whitepaper: The Hidden Cost of the Status Quo: Why Healthcare Safety is the Defining Strategic Imperative for 2026

When clinicians worry about their safety, the impact reaches far beyond a single incident. Confidence drops, reporting suffers, turnover rises and operational strain spreads across the organization.

This healthcare safety report shows why best-in-class hospitals are treating safety as a strategic priority. It connects worker safety to workforce retention, trust and operational performance, giving leaders a clearer view of what is driving risk and what can improve outcomes.

The findings are drawn from an online survey of 1,014 healthcare employees across clinical, operational and executive roles. The results are hard to ignore – Nearly 85% of survey respondents have personally experienced a safety incident during their careers. More than 20% (1 in 5) have been involved in incidents that escalated to physical violence, and 76% of healthcare workers consider personal safety a daily concern.

One system that adopted connected safety technology saw violent incidents decline by 30% within six months, while incident reporting increased by 50%.

For leaders focused on sustaining care delivery, this report offers a practical look at how proactive safety programs can support both staff protection and organizational performance.

Download the report to learn:

• How safety affects retention, trust and operational resilience,
• What front-line trends reveal about workplace violence today,
• Where proactive safety programs are driving measurable change, and
• Why reporting culture matters for long-term improvement.

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April 20, 2026

Webinar: Smarter Spend, Safer Care: Real-world RTLS Strategies for Asset Management, Staff Safety and Compliance, May 6

Hospital executives face mounting pressure to reduce costs while protecting patients, staff and operations across the enterprise.

In this webinar, hospital leaders will learn how health systems are using Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) to address some of healthcare’s most persistent challenges, from excess equipment spend and rental costs to staff safety risks and compliance gaps.

It will create clarity on which metrics matter most, how to evaluate performance gains and how RTLS data can support smarter capital, clinical and operational strategies.

Key takeaways include:

• How RTLS reduces capital and rental costs through improved asset utilization,
• Ways staff protection and infant security technologies mitigate risk and liability, and
• How environmental monitoring supports compliance and patient safety.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, May 6, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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April 20, 2026

Webinar: Escaping Pilot Purgatory: A Framework for Scaling Agentic AI in Healthcare Organizations, April 30

Agentic AI is a board-level priority for most healthcare organizations, but whether you are still identifying where to start or trying to move a stalled pilot forward, the path to measurable results looks the same.

This session introduces a practical three-part framework for moving from concept to enterprise-wide deployment: a strategic blueprint to identify and prioritize the right workflows, an enterprise architecture that builds on technologies you already have, and a continuous optimization loop to protect and grow the investment.

Using real healthcare workflows including claims processing, prior authorization, and fax management, you will see how organizations redesign their operations and the roles within them, rather than simply digitize them.

You will leave with:

• What differentiates agentic AI from traditional and generative AI in healthcare operations,
• How to identify the right workflows for agentic AI and what it takes to move a pilot into full deployment, and
• How leading health systems are redesigning roles with agentic AI, not just processes.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, April 30, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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April 20, 2026

On-Demand Webinar: Code Blue for Talent: Turning the Healthcare Staffing Crisis Into a Strategic Advantage

Healthcare systems across the U.S. are facing an unprecedented staffing crisis, but also a rare opportunity to redesign workforce strategy. Recent national workforce data – commissioned by Strategic Education, Inc. and featured in Newsweek – reveals that more than half of healthcare workers plan to switch jobs within the next year.

In this executive briefing hosted by Workforce Edge, leaders from Baptist Health and Workforce Edge will connect national data to real-world action – showing how forward-thinking systems are using education access, career mobility, and data-driven insights to strengthen retention and build long-term workforce capacity.

Objectives:

• Recent trends and industry picture of the current healthcare workforce,
• How organizations are reacting to these trends and how they are thinking about the future of their recruitment, retention, and upskilling strategy, and
• How to strengthen retention and build long-term workforce capacity.

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April 20, 2026

Webinar: Food Insecurity as Clinical Risk: How Health Systems are Scaling Nutrition-Integrated Access, April 29

Food insecurity is increasingly recognized as a clinical risk factor that drives utilization, destabilizes patient outcomes, and contributes to variation in performance across populations.

As value-based care strategies mature, leading organizations are moving beyond ad hoc food assistance toward structured, nutrition-integrated access programs designed to align support with patient acuity and risk.

This session walks through how health systems are building those programs embedding registered dietitians, stratifying by risk level and creating clear pathways that connect food access to care outcomes and patient engagement.

Key takeaways:

• How food insecurity drives utilization risk, instability and quality variation across patient populations,
• How nutrition-integrated access programs can be structured to match patient acuity risk levels, and
• How registered dietitians embedded in access programs can strengthen engagement, equity and outcomes

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, April 29, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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April 20, 2026

On-Demand Webinar: Beyond Basis Points: What Actually Drives ROI in Healthcare Payment Programs

Healthcare finance leaders are being pitched on rebate upside. But many programs underperform not because the math was wrong, but because adoption never materialized.

This session breaks down what drives ROI in B2B payment programs and how leading healthcare finance teams are turning accounts payable into a strategic revenue contributor.

Learnings include:

• A CFO-ready ROI model that goes beyond basis points and merchant matches,
• The three supplier acceptance requirements that determine enrollment success, and
• A side-by-side comparison of self-service, basic-assisted and full-service support models.

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April 20, 2026

Webinar: When Demand Rises, Adding Beds is Not Always the Answer, April 27

As patient volumes grow, many hospitals are trying to answer the same question: How do you create capacity without expanding the health system’s physical footprint?

This session explores how Sarasota Memorial Health Care System approached that challenge by rethinking daily operations. Susan Grimwood, DNP, executive director of logistics, capacity and patient throughput, will share how the organization strengthened inpatient flow and discharge management by starting the day earlier, strengthened inpatient flow and discharge management by starting the day earlier, improving visibility into demand and creating clearer alignment around execution.

The value of this discussion is its operational focus. Rather than centering on additional beds or construction, it examines how a more predictive and consistent day-to-day model can support throughput, discharge performance and length of stay over time.

Attendees will learn:

• How Sarasota Memorial built capacity through operational redesign,
• Why visibility into demand is critical to daily flow decisions,
• How accountability supports more reliable execution across teams, and
• What helps operational improvements stick over time.

Cost: Free

When: Monday, April 27, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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April 20, 2026

Webinar: From Coverage to Control: One Physician Workforce. Fully Optimized, April 30

The era of siloed physician staffing is ending. Yet many health systems still manage locums and permanent recruitment separately, creating higher labor costs, longer vacancy windows and fragmented visibility across service lines.

Leading organizations are rethinking this approach.

In this session, healthcare leaders will explore how aligning locums and permanent staffing creates a unified workforce strategy that improves financial performance, reduces reliance on premium labor and stabilizes clinical coverage.

By coordinating teams, sharing data and aligning accountability, health systems can turn physician staffing from a reactive function into a strategic advantage.

You’ll learn:

• How integrated staffing aligns short-term coverage with long-term workforce goals,
• Where shared workforce data uncovers unnecessary labor spend, and
• How coordinated recruiting reduces vacancy timelines and premium labor reliance.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, April 30, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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