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Webinar: Helping ASC Teams Address Worries About Healthcare Expenses, September 12

August 26, 2025

Webinar: Helping ASC Teams Address Worries About Healthcare Expenses, September 12

Join this important discussion to learn about the different stages of the healthcare journey and how you can have confident financial conversations to meet patients where they’re at.

This webinar will dive into practical ways healthcare teams can bui8ld comfort and confidence around financial conversations that can help your patients move forward with care and your practice build stronger, lasting relationship.

Learning Points:

  • Help the healthcare team become more comfortable having financial conversations with patients,
  • Understand healthcare financing trends and how financial conversations can impact patient care and practice operations,
  • Integrate patient financing solutions like CareCredit credit card to improve the payment process, support patient decision-making, and empower patients to accept recommended care, and
  • Gain expert insights into the different stages of the healthcare journey.

Cost: Free

When: Friday, September 12, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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NRHA Webinar: How Air Medical Transport Saves Lives After Traumatic Brain Injury – and What Rural Hospitals Risk Losing, September 11

August 26, 2025

NRHA Webinar: How Air Medical Transport Saves Lives After Traumatic Brain Injury – and What Rural Hospitals Risk Losing, September 11

In rural America, time and distance can be deadly – especially after a traumatic brain injury. This session explores the critical role of air medical services in bridging rural trauma care gaps and improving survival outcomes for patients with brain injuries.

Join Stephanie Queen, RN, a senior clinical leader with more than 20 years in healthcare operations and critical care, Peggy Reisher, MSW, a 30-year brain injury advocate and executive director of the Brain Injury Association of Nebraska, and Tim Chiarolanza, a brain injury survivor whose life was saved by air medical transport. Together, they’ll share compelling data, personal insights, and urgent policy concerns affecting air ambulance access.

Attendees will:

  • Understand the unique causes and long-term impacts of brain injury in rural communities,
  • Learn how air ambulances deliver ICU-level care en route and improve TBI survival rates, and
  • Hear how current Medicare reimbursement gaps threaten access to these life-saving services.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, September 11, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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NRHA Webinar: How to Assess Capital Readiness and Align Your Team for a Successful Project, September 10

August 26, 2025

NRHA Webinar: How to Assess Capital Readiness and Align Your Team for a Successful Project, September 10

Capital projects in rural healthcare come with high stakes – and limited room for missteps. Often, the biggest roadblocks aren’t funding or feasibility. They’re mindset, misalignment, and unclear next steps.

In this session, Brian Haapala – who has spent more than 20 years guiding rural hospitals through successful capital planning – introduces the S.C.O. P. E. method, a practical framework to evaluate readiness, align leadership, and build a plan that’s both strategic and fundable.

You’ll also explore the Capital Planning Styles Matrix to better understand how leadership approaches impact momentum – from early strategy through execution.

Attendees will learn how to:

  • Recognize their team’s current capital planning style,
  • Understand how leadership mindset influences progress, and
  • Identify immediate steps to build clarity and alignment

Whether you’re planning, mid-project, or stalled – this session offers a clear and actionable reset.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, September 10, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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NRHA Webinar: 90 days to Dialysis: How a 24-Bed CAH Built a Sustainable Nephrology Program for Local Patients, September 4

August 26, 2025

NRHA Webinar: 90 days to Dialysis: How a 24-Bed CAH Built a Sustainable Nephrology Program for Local Patients, September 4

What does it take for a small critical access hospital to launch 24/7 inpatient nephrology – and begin building a community dialysis unit – in just three months?

At McKenzie Health in Watford City, ND, leadership saw the need: 36 dialysis patients in their county and the nearest home dialysis facility 180 miles away. Their response? A strategic, phased approach that started with inpatient nephrology and swing-bed dialysis – and laid the foundation for long-term outpatient expansion.

In this session, Dr. Rubin Chandran – a board-certified nephrologist with 20+ years of rural experience – shares the roadmap any CAH can follow to do the same.

You’ll Learn:

  • The 90-day implementation playbook for inpatient nephrology and acute dialysis,
  • The “4 Ps” of due diligence: physicians, prevalence, pipeline, and payer mix,
  • How to use inpatient services to de-risk outpatient expansion, and
  • What it takes to plan, build, and manage a CMS-compliant dialysis unit.

If your hospital is looking to expand care, reduce transfers, and capture new revenue while meeting a critical need – this is your session.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, September 4, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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Wanted: Rural Health Champions

August 25, 2025

 

Wanted: Rural Health Champions

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Office of Rural Health and Primary Care is seeking nominations for 2025 Missouri Rural Health Champions. This award is designed to honor a minimum of one individual and one group whose contributions are making a difference in Missouri rural healthcare through collaboration, education, innovation, and communication.

Who Might be a Rural Health Champion:

  • Providers
  • Clinic managers and/or staff
  • Rural Hospitals
  • Pharmacists
  • Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Front desk staff
  • Administrators
  • Anyone who works in rural healthcare

Nomination deadline is October 1, 2025.

Click Here to Nominate Your Rural Health Champion

Whitepaper: Care More, Code Less – How to Navigate CMS Updates

August 25, 2025

Whitepaper: Care More, Code Less – How to Navigate CMS Updates

Recent CMS changes removed over 2,000 diagnostic codes and introduced 200-plus that don’t map to reimbursement under previous rules. For health systems and ACOs, missing these changes can translate into massive revenue losses and poor risk scoring.

Health systems like Community Health Network have responded decisively. By embedding hierarchical condition category (HCC) alerts into its EHR workflows, the organization added more than $13 million to their bottom line. Bellin Health raised its risk adjustment factor (RAF) score by 16%. Bon Secours Mercy Health documented over 35,000 HCCs in just six months.

This report details how systems are operationalizing HCC accuracy amid shifting CMS rules – with proven returns.

Download for real-world lessons on:

  • Avoiding missed reimbursement under CMS’ new coding structure,
  • Embedding EHR-based HCC alerts to boost risk scores, and
  • Discover how health systems boost risk adjustment and reimbursement with streamlined HCC coding.

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Webinar: Responsible AI in Primary Care: Driving Quality, Trust and Transformation, August 26

August 25, 2025

Webinar: Responsible AI in Primary Care: Driving Quality, Trust and Transformation, August 26

AI is transforming primary care – but success hinges on how it’s deployed. Health systems leading the way on AI adoption aren’t just investing in smarter algorithms; they’re embedding AI into clinical workflows while preserving trust, safety and the patient-clinician relationship.

In this panel, hear from leaders on what responsible AI looks like in action and what it takes to get clinicians on board. This will be a practical conversation grounded in real-world cases, governance strategies and measurable results.

Join to Explore:

  • How systems are reducing clinician burden and surfacing key insights at the point of care,
  • Strategies to embed AI into workflows without disrupting the human connection, and
  • Governance approaches that ensure responsible, scalable AI deployment across primary care.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, August 26, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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The Next Major Workforce Crisis Systems are Tackling

August 25, 2025

The Next Major Workforce Crisis Systems are Tackling

Health systems are taking on what one leader has called the “next major workforce crisis”: a shortage of nurse educators.

In 2024, U.S. nursing schools turned away 80,162 qualified applications. Within that total,

  • 65,398 applications from entry-level baccalaureate were turned away,
  • 1,530 from RN-to BSN,
  • 7,603 from master’s,
  • 5,366 from DNP, and
  • 265 from PhD nursing programs.

There’s never been a shortage of qualified applicants,” Carolyn Santora, MSN, RN, chief nursing officer and chief regulatory officer at Stony Brook (N.Y.) University Hospital, told Becker’s. “The bottleneck has been a shortage of faculty, limiting class sizes.

The aging nurse faculty workforce is a key challenge for some of these programs. The average age of nursing faculty in four-year programs is in the 60s, Susan Reeves, EdD, RN, system chief nurse executive at Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health, told Becker’s.

“Many will retire soon, and there aren’t enough younger educators ready to replace them,” she said. “Compounding this, new nursing graduates often earn more in practice than faculty with decades of experience. This is shaping up to be our next major workforce crisis.”

To address these issues, health systems are taking up the torch to support education opportunities for nursing students and new nurses. This looks different at every system.

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OnDemand Webinar: Automating Authorizations: How Teams are Getting Paid Faster Without Adding Staff

August 25, 2025

OnDemand Webinar: Automating Authorizations: How Teams are Getting Paid Faster Without Adding Staff

Manual prior authorizations slow care, frustrate patients and delay payment. Staff get buried in phone calls, faxes and follow-ups.

Left unresolved, these inefficiencies lead to rising denials, delayed revenue and burned-out teams.

In this OnDemand webinar, see how one organization automated the authorization process – cutting approval times, reducing admin work and getting paid faster.

You’ll Learn How to:

  • Pinpoint which tasks can be automated for the greatest ROI,
  • Reduce payer-related delays that stall revenue cycles, and
  • Free staff to focus on patients, not paperwork.

Cost: Free

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MRHA Webinar: Total Case Management, September 25

August 25, 2025

MRHA Webinar: Total Case Management, September 25

Join the Missouri Rural Health Association (MRHA) for an engaging session introducing a new model of Case Management designed specifically for rural healthcare. Total Case Management emphasizes intentional patient navigation to ensure patients receive the right care, at the right time, in the right place – while also improving hospital revenue and operational efficiency.

This webinar will guide rural health leaders through strategies to identify barriers in traditional case management, strengthen ER-to-inpatient service utilization, and ultimately repair and transform broken case management models. By adopting the Total Case Management Model, organizations can deliver better care, increase patient satisfaction, reduce insurance denials, and strengthen their bottom line.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, September 25, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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