Upcoming Webinar: Reducing ED Boarding & Boosting Surgical Growth: Inside Jackson Health’s AI Strategy, August 28

July 24, 2025

Upcoming Webinar: Reducing ED Boarding & Boosting Surgical Growth: Inside Jackson Health’s AI Strategy, August 28

For many health systems, operational complexity holds back growth and erodes margins. Jackson Health System faced the same obstacles – until leaders built a strategic AI framework that goes beyond the EHR.

In this webinar, Jackson Health’s president and COO will share how the team unlocked a 0.42-day reduction in excess days, a 4.5% increase in primetime OR utilization, and an 18% drop in ED boarding times and $6.7 million in annualized savings.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Develop an AI strategy to address inpatient capacity and surgical growth,
  • Build alignment for enterprise AI investments that deliver ROI, and
  • Drive adoption of AI assistants across clinical and operational teams.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, August 28, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Upcoming Webinar: Meeting Patients Where They Are: How Tech-driven Clinical Workflows Support Population Health, August 26

July 24, 2025

Upcoming Webinar: Meeting Patients Where They Are: How Tech-driven Clinical Workflows Support Population Health, August 26

Health systems’ patient populations are shifting, driven by aging demographics, expanding service footprints, and rising expectations for transparency and access.

Adaptation is paramount but meeting patients’ needs has never been more complex. Leaders must engage communities with varying levels of digital literacy while supporting clinicians facing mounting workloads and staffing challenges.

It’s time to move from ambitious plans to proven, sustainable solutions. This webinar will bring together health system leaders to explore how technology delivers measurable ROI, strengthens patient education, and builds more inclusive, streamlined care workflows that evolve as needs change.

Join this conversation to learn how your peers are:

  • Using digital tools to engage diverse communities and advance patient education,
  • Evaluating the ROI of technology-enabled workflows – and the metrics that matter most, and
  • Designing adaptable methods that sustain performance across markets and populations.

Cost:  Free

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

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Upcoming Webinar: Designing Safer Workplaces for Nurses: A New Era of Accountability, Empathy, and Real-Time Awareness, August 7

July 24, 2025

Upcoming Webinar: Designing Safer Workplaces for Nurses: A New Era of Accountability, Empathy, and Real-Time Awareness, August 7

This webinar explores how hospitals are rethinking workplace safety to better support and retain their nursing staff. We’ll dive into the role of real-time technology in preventing incidents, reducing burnout, and creating a culture of trust.

Learn how health systems are balancing the need for accountability with empathy to build safer more sustainable clinical environments.

Insights include:

  • How real-time tech can help prevent workplace violence and reduce clinician burnout,
  • Strategies to build a culture of trust and safety that supports nurse retention, and
  • Approaches to balancing accountability with empathy in workplace safety programs

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, August 7, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Upcoming Webinar: How Health Systems are Shaping Executive Leadership Teams to Drive Future Success, July 30

July 24, 2025

Upcoming Webinar: How Health Systems are Shaping Executive Leadership Teams to Drive Future Success, July 30

As margins tighten and transformation accelerates, organizations must strategically identify and develop leaders who will shape the future.

This discussion breaks down how forward-looking health systems are reassessing leadership gaps, strengthening succession pipelines and determining when to promote from within versus hire outside innovators.

You’ll gain timely insights into the frameworks, mindsets and warning signs senior teams are using to future-proof leadership.

Key Takeaways Include:

  • Signs it’s time to restructure or realign the C-suite,
  • How to evaluate leadership gaps and succession plans, and
  • Strategies for building a resilient, future -focused executive team

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, July 30, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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MHA Webinar: Credentialing Considerations for Health Care Executives, August 12

July 24, 2025

MHA Webinar: Credentialing Considerations for Health Care Executives, August 12

Credentialing is important for health care organizations because it ensures that health care providers meet quality standards and protect patients. Credentialing also helps to reduce malpractice risks. In a health care setting, everyone involved in the process of verifying and approving providers to practice in the facility needs to understand their role. This includes the medical staff office, health care providers, risk managers, department leaders and ultimately, the governing board.

Ensuring only qualified providers are allowed to practice within the hospital helps protect patients from potential harm and prevent the facility from negligent credentialing claims.

Target Audience:

  • CEOs, CNOs, CMOs,
  • Staff accountable to oversight of medical staff and liability concerns,
  • Medical service staff professionals,
  • Credentialing specialists,
  • Medical directors,
  • Vice presidents of medical affairs,
  • Quality improvement professionals,
  • Medical staff leaders,
  • Credentials committee members, and
  • Any person involved with credentialing and privileging functions

Cost: Complimentary to MHA Members

When: Tuesday, August 12, 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

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CEHP Webinar – Beyond the Scale: Personalized Care for Obesity in Adults and Adolescents, July 28

July 24, 2025

CEHP Webinar – Beyond the Scale: Personalized Care for Obesity in Adults and Adolescents, July 28

The Missouri University (MU) Continuing Education for Health Professionals (CEHP) is hosting, “Beyond the Scale: Personalized Care for Obesity in Adults and Adolescents”, on July 28.

More effective treatment options for Missouri adults and youth with obesity are available than ever before. This training will familiarize healthcare professionals with intensive/family-based behavioral treatment and medication therapy for patients with obesity.

The session will review health behavior changes that help set patients up for success, options for more intensive behavioral treatment and prescribing tips to maximize medication safely and efficacy.

Target Audience:

  • APRN
  • MD
  • PA
  • DO
  • RN
  • RDN
  • RPh
  • PharmD

Cost: Free

When: Monday, July 28, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

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Rural Hospital Stabilization Program (RHSP) Fall 2025 Cohort – August 20

July 23, 2025

Rural Hospital Stabilization Program (RHSP) Fall 2025 Cohort – August 20

The FORHP funded National Rural Health Resource Center (the Center) provides tailored assistance to help hospitals improve financial stability, expand needed community services, and keep care close to home.

Eligible facilities include Critical Access Hospitals, Prospective payment System hospitals, Rural Emergency Hospitals, and Indian Health Service hospitals.

Last month the Center announced eight hospitals that were selected for the first cohort.

Space is limited, so register now for a webinar for applicants on Wednesday, August 5.

Apply by August 20, 2025

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Click Here to See Eligibility and Application Process

Click Here to Register for Applicant Webinar – Deadline to register is July 31, 2025

Providers Should Be Aware of Medicare Fraud Scheme

July 23, 2025

Providers Should Be Aware of Medicare Fraud Scheme

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has identified a fraud scheme targeting Medicare providers and suppliers.

Scammers are impersonating CMS and sending phishing requests for medical records or payment of alleged Medicare debts, often via fax or email, falsely claiming to be part of a Medicare audit or debt collection efforts.

CMS generally does not initiate audits via fax or email unless a provider requests it, and Medicare overpayment collections are handled through the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs).

If you receive a suspicious request, don’t respond. Work with your Medical Review Contractor to confirm if a medical records request is real or with your MAC to discuss overpayment collections.

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Click Here to Find Your Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC)

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Apply Now: Quest for Rural Experience Scholarships

July 23, 2025

Apply Now: Quest for Rural Experience Scholarships

The National Association of Rural Health Clinics (NARHC) Research and Education Foundation is accepting applications for the fall 2025 Quest for Rural Experience Scholarships.

Quest for Rural Experience Scholarships are $3,000 awards provided directly to students to assist in covering various expenses they may incur during their rotations, including housing, transportation, and other educational expenses. NARHC REF aims to award four scholarships this fall.

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Webinar: Need to Meet the Looming CMS Mandates – Without Ripping and Replacing Your Current Systems, July 24

July 22, 2025

Webinar: Need to Meet the Looming CMS Mandates – Without Ripping and Replacing Your Current Systems, July 24

Join this webinar to learn how to unlock interoperability and CMS readiness with the infrastructure you already have.

Slow, outdated infrastructure is putting payer-provider organizations at risk of falling behind on upcoming CMS mandates for interoperability, patient access, and prior authorization. And these regulations, CMS-9115-F and CMS-0057-F, demand a fundamental shift in data exchange and interoperability.

One regional payer tackled this head-on, integrating its clinical data infrastructure with modern technology. The result? Real-time interoperability, faster claims processing and seven-figure operational savings.

This session offers a concrete playbook – for payers and providers – to build the data foundation for advanced clinical analytics and drive compliance and transformation.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, July 24, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

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