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Transform Virtual Series: One Virtual Series. Three Summits. Same Mission: Strengthen Hospitals from the Inside Out

December 31, 2025

Transform Virtual Series: One Virtual Series. Three Summits. Same Mission: Strengthen Hospitals from the Inside Out

Healthcare leaders are facing one of the most challenging moments in recent history with policy shifts, funding cuts, workforce shortages, and more. The pressure to deliver more with less has never been more intense. The need for stronger, more resilient operations has never been clearer.

Transform Virtual Series helps you meet this moment. The new, multi-week format is built to go deeper than ever before. Instead of a single day, they have dedicated three focused half-day summits to the operational areas under the greatest strain and where predictable, efficient, AI powered operations matter most for sustainable growth:

  • Inpatient Flow (February 10)
  • Perioperative Services (February 17)
  • Infusion Centers (February 24)

Transform proves why AI is the only scalable path to unlocking capacity and enabling enterprise transformation. Each summit delivers the strategies and success stories that strengthen margins, expand access, and improve performance without adding resources.

You’ll walk away with:

  • Proven ROI
    • See how better operations improve both mission and margin by creating capacity, protecting the workforce, and delivering sustainable growth system-wide.
  • AI powered strategies
    • Enable resilience not through hype, but through cutting-edge technology that delivers real outcomes.
  • Executive insights
    • Connect with healthcare leaders from across the country and apply immediate learnings to improve access, efficiency, flow, and experience.

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Whitepaper: The State of the Healthcare Consumer Experience

December 31, 2025

Whitepaper: The State of the Healthcare Consumer Experience

Eight five percent of healthcare consumers consider perceived safety when choosing a provider – and this assessment starts online, not at the front desk. Outdated listings, unclear communication and disjointed workflows can erode trust before a visit even begins.

Press Ganey’s recent Healthcare Consumer Experience report reveals how safety, digital transparency and social capital drive trust, loyalty and long-term growth. Based on insights from over 6.5 million patient encounters and a national survey, the report offers a strategic roadmap for executives.

Learnings Include:

  • Why patient perceptions of safety directly impact likelihood to recommend (LTR),
  • How shared purpose among care teams builds loyalty from within, and
  • Where digital friction undermines trust and how to fix it.

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Whitepaper: Imaging Data is Moving to the Cloud. Is Your Security Strategy Keeping Up?

December 31, 2025

Whitepaper: Imaging Data is Moving to the Cloud. Is Your Security Strategy Keeping Up?

Imaging systems handle some of the most sensitive data in healthcare and are frequent targets for attacks. As imaging data moves to the cloud, the need for strong, built-in security has never been greater. But many cloud-based platforms still rely on surface-level safeguards, leaving health systems exposed to access risks, audit gaps and operational downtime.

This whitepaper provides a clear look into how Phillips HealthSuite Imaging – a secure, radiology cloud-based solution delivered as a SaaS – protects patient data at every stage, built with a security-first architecture. It outlines the key safeguards health system leaders should expect from any cloud-based imaging infrastructure.

You will learn:

  • What protections help prevent unauthorized access or tampering,
  • How hybrid and full-cloud deployment models deliver flexibility, resilience, and performance.
  • How real time monitoring detects and contains threats before they escalate.

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Whitepaper: Unlocking the Value of Locum Integration: A Playbook for Future Ready Physician Staffing

December 31, 2025

Whitepaper: Unlocking the Value of Locum Integration: A Playbook for Future Ready Physician Staffing

Most health systems don’t lose revenue because they use locum physicians; they lose it because of how they deploy them. When used strategically, locum tenens physicians can help preserve patient access, support clinical teams and protect margins during coverage gaps.

This new strategic report challenges outdated assumptions and shows how top performing hospitals and health systems are building locums into long-term workforce strategies, not just emergency backfills.

Inside, you’ll find real data and proven tactics – including how some systems are generating 4x to 8x ROI on locums spend, and how one hospital sustained 95% neurosurgery program capacity using locums during full-team turnover.

Download to explore:

  • How to build a physician locums strategy as a scalable workforce solution,
  • Strategic deployment models that extend reach and safeguard revenue, and
  • The truth behind the most persistent myths about locum tenens coverage.

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Webinar: Rural Health Transformation Program: Compliance & Oversight, January 20

December 30, 2025

Webinar: Rural Health Transformation Program: Compliance & Oversight, January 20

Join this in-depth session on the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) to learn about its purpose and goals, funding, and how organizations can prepare for upcoming Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs).

The knowledgeable panel will also cover compliance and reporting requirements, along with essential grant management practices for effective oversight and sustainability.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the RHTP and its intended purpose for rural communities,
  • Discuss the current status of funding,
  • Explain what organizations can do now to prepare for states releasing NOFOs,
  • Recognize compliance and reporting requirements and how an organization can prepare to comply, and
  • Identify grant management practices critical to managing these funds.

CPE Information:

One CPE credit (pending approval) in the Business Management and Organization field of study may be awarded upon verification of participant attendance during live broadcast.

Who Should Attend:

  • State agencies responsible for submitting RHTP grant applications,
  • Rural healthcare providers,
  • Hospital and clinic administrators, and
  • Non-profit organizations

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, January 20, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

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Article: Hospital Price Transparency Fine Enforcement in 2025: 6 Things to Know

December 30, 2025

Article: Hospital Price Transparency Fine Enforcement in 2025: 6 Things to Know

CMS ramped up enforcement of hospital price transparency fines in 2025, issuing fines to 10 hospitals after imposing three in 2024.

Here are six things to know about hospital price transparency fines in 2025:

  1. It was the second-busiest year for price transparency fines.
  2. Fine amounts ranged from $32,301 to $309,738 in 025. The $32,301 fine imposed on Kentwood, La. Based Southeast Regional Medical Center is the lowest CMS has issued since enforcement actions began in 2022. The $309,738 fine imposed on Paragould-based Arkansas Methodist Medical Center is the sixth highest to date.
  3. Four of the 10 hospitals that received fines in 2025 have 30 or fewer beds. Since enforcement actions began in 2022, nine of the 27 hospitals that received fines in 2025 have 30 or fewer beds. Since enforcement actions began in 2022, nine of the 27 hospitals that have received fines had 30 or fewer beds.
  4. Two of the hospitals that received fines in 2025 had more than 100 beds. Arkansas Methodist Medical Center had 114 beds, and Mandeville, La-based Northlake Behavioral Health System had 140. Three other hospitals fined this year had between 33 and 60 beds.
  5. CMS bases its civil monetary penalties on hospital bed counts. Fines fall into three tiers:
    • Hospitals with more than 550 beds can be fined up to $5,500 per day.
    • Hospitals with 31 to 550 beds face a daily fine of $10 per bed.
    • Hospitals with 30 or fewer beds may receive a daily fine of up to $300.
  1. Five of the 10 hospitals fined in 2025 have appeals currently under review. Overall, 11 of the 27 hospitals that have been fined currently have appeals under review.

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23rd Annual Health Care Leadership Series – Eight One-Day Training Sessions – March – October 2026

December 30, 2025

23rd Annual Health Care Leadership Series – Eight One-Day Training Sessions – March – October 2026

In today’s changing health care environment, accepting a leadership role is far more complex than ever before. MHA Health Institute’s Health Care Leadership Series is a comprehensive leadership training curriculum designed to assist hospitals in developing effective internal leaders.

The series provides:

  • Professional development education,
  • Tools to enhance skills of hospital leaders, and
  • the opportunity to develop a professional network and a template plan for action to implement changes.

Audience

  • individuals new to hospital supervisory or mid-level management positions seeking in-depth management educational review,
  • those on a leadership track, and
  • those looking to refresh their leadership skills

The Health Care Leadership Series consists of eight, one-day training session, held monthly from March through October.

Cost: $1,399 per person – this includes all eight sessions

When: One training session per month beginning Friday, March 20 through October 9

Class size is limited, and registrations will be accepted on a first-served basis.

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Whitepaper: How M Health Fairview Rebuilt Clinician Trust in EHR Training

December 30, 2025

Whitepaper: How M Health Fairview Rebuilt Clinician Trust in EHR Training

When physicians don’t have timely, easy to navigate EHR training, satisfaction with both IT and leadership declines and burnout rises.

M Health Fairview experienced this firsthand, Fragmented learning systems and inconsistent support chipped away at clinician confidence and created operational bottlenecks – until the organization overhauled its entire training approach.

At the center of the transformation: a centralized learning experience that delivers just in time support, role specific education and measurable outcomes.

Download this case study to see how M Health Fairview boosted engagement, reduced training friction and rebuilt trust in IT across clinical teams with personalized learning accessible in the EHR.

Insights include:

  • How M Health Fairview cut EHR training content development time by 76%,
  • The self-directed learning strategy that led to significantly higher clinician satisfaction with EHR education and IT support, and
  • Why executive alignment was essential, and how leadership buy-in helped sustain change.

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On-Demand Webinar: How Sarasota Memorial is Creating Discharge Capacity with AI

December 30, 2025

On-Demand Webinar: How Sarasota Memorial is Creating Discharge Capacity with AI

As patient volumes surged, Sarasota Memorial Health care System faced growing pressure to maintain throughput and discharge efficiency – without added resources.

IN this on-demand webinar, leaders from the top-ranked system share how they used AI-enabled automation to predict discharge bottlenecks, prioritize early discharges and reduce delays across multiple units.

By integrating predictive analytics into daily operations, Sarasota Memorial has built a more consistent, repeatable discharge process that improves collaboration and accelerates patient flow systemwide.

Watch now to see how they:

  • Used unit-level predictions to pinpoint where earlier discharges would have the greatest impact,
  • Improved communication and visibility between shifts to drive consistent throughput, and
  • Built a discharge management process that scales with demand.

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Article: The Patient Overwhelm Problem: 70% are Tuning out Communications

December 30, 2025

Article: The Patient Overwhelm Problem: 70% are Tuning out Communications

Every healthcare leader is thinking about burnout. Providers and administrators are overwhelmed by staffing shortages and other morale strains, which we know are compromising patient experience outcomes.

But when we talk about “overwhelm” in healthcare, the staff/provider side is usually where the conversation starts and ends. There’s another crisis unfolding on the other side of the experience: patient overwhelm.

As hospitals (rightly) address the internal realities, patients are drowning in communication saturation. Nearly two-thirds (70%) of patients say organizations send so many messages that they’re tuning the messages out, according to a new study by Wakefield Research commissioned by CSG. In healthcare that means appointment reminders, test results, care instructions, and statements are getting lost in the noise.

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