December 11, 2025

MRHA Webinar: Beyond Broadband; Uncovering the Hidden Barriers to Rural Telehealth Equity, January 22

Telehealth has transformed rural healthcare by expanding access and reducing travel barriers, but not all communities benefit equally. Persistent socioeconomic and infrastructural challenges continue to limit who can fully participate in telehealth services.

This session, presented by Southern Illinois University, explores findings from a comprehensive narrative review examining how broadband access, digital literacy, and affordability shape telehealth adoption in rural areas.

Participants will gain insight into successful models such as Project ECHO and Avera eCARE, which demonstrates practical, evidence-based approaches to improving access and outcomes. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies for strengthening telehealth equity and closing the digital divide in Missouri’s rural healthcare systems.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, January 22, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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December 11, 2025

PFAC Office Hours: Foundational Elements for Managing a PFAC, December 18

Building and sustaining a successful Patient and Family advisory Council begins with a strong foundation. This event will explore the essential components for effectively managing a hospital PFAC and fostering meaningful collaboration to make an impact. Because this is an office hours call format, during the last half of the call, members of MHA’s statewide PFAC will field questions, share stories and have conversations with the audience.

The Missouri Hospital Association’s (MHA’s) statewide PFAC has announced the winners of our fourth annual Compass Honor Award. During the call, participants will hear from the winners as they share their PFAC journey and lessons learned. This award recognizes two Missouri hospitals that have demonstrated exceptional commitment to improving patient engagement, experience, and outcomes through innovative programs and initiatives.

Objectives

At the conclusion to this session, participants will:

• Hear best practices for establishing structure, defining roles, setting goals and maintaining momentum within their councils,
• Experience real-world examples, and
• Discover practical tools to help strengthen partnerships between patients, families and health care teams.

Cost: complimentary to all attendees

When: Thursday, December 18, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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December 11, 2025

On-Demand Webinar: The Cost of Getting it Wrong: Smarter Verification for a Tighter Budget

Budget cuts, identity fraud, and adversarial AI are putting critical security functions like verification at risk. But as regulations tighten and fraud becomes more sophisticated, getting it wrong has real consequences.

Manual verification, weak authentication, and account recovery vulnerabilities are being exploited.

In this session, hear how health systems are automating user journeys, prioritizing identity verification and making smarter security investments with cost in mind.

Key takeaways:

• How identity gaps impact patient, payer, and provider safety, revenue cycle and compliance,
• Where automation delivers quick wins in authentication and verification, and
• How to invest in security without overextending your budget or infuriating users.

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December 10, 2025

Webinar: RestorixHealth Critical Access Program Solutions, December 16

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Office of Rural Health is partnering with RestorixHealth to offer this free webinar.

You are invited to join this webinar to learn about how RestorixHealth works with hospitals to create outpatient wound care programs. They offer turnkey, custom solutions specifically designed for critical access and rural hospitals.

High points of the critical access model

• Provider based, procedure driven,
• Can be part time… based on demand
• RestorixHealth can furnish all the operational pieces (nursing, administrative, revenue cycle support, marketing and education, clinical policies, and procedures, and
• Minimal financial risk (no start-up capital needed from hospital, fees tied to patient volume, fees set so that program should be profitable from day 1)

Upside of Model:

• Can prevent outward migration of patients,
• Drives volume to other services,
• Valuable clinical resource for community, and
• Excellent clinical outcomes…94% heal rate and 28 median days to heal

RestorixHealth can evaluate what a wound care program would look like for your hospital and develop market analysis to quantify demand along with providing a financial pro forma.

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Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, December 16, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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December 5, 2025

MRHA Webinar: Beyond Broadband; Uncovering the Hidden Barriers to Rural Telehealth Equity, January 22

Telehealth has transformed rural healthcare by expanding access and reducing travel barriers, but not all communities benefit equally. Persistent socioeconomic and infrastructural challenges continue to limit who can fully participate in telehealth services.

This session, presented by Southern Illinois University, explores findings from a comprehensive narrative review examining how broadband access, digital literacy, and affordability shape telehealth adoption in rural areas.

Participants will gain insight into successful models such as Project ECHO and Avera eCARE, which demonstrate practical, evidence -based approaches to improving access and outcomes. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies for strengthening telehealth equity and closing the digital divide in Missouri’s rural healthcare systems.

Target Audience:

• Rural health professionals,
• Hospital and clinic administrators,
• Public health practitioners,
• Researchers, policymakers,
• Health equity advocates, and
• Students in health-related disciplines

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, January 22, 2026

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December 5, 2025

Webinar: Social Media + Youth Mental Health: What Every Behavioral Health Leader Should Know, December 12

Pediatric behavioral health demand is rising, and social media use is increasingly part of the clinical picture. From anxiety and sleep disruption to attention and engagement issues, care teams are encountering new challenges tied to digital habits.

Without clear frameworks, early signs of social media-related distress often go unrecognized, leading to delayed intervention and increased clinical complexity.

This session offers an evidence-based look at how behavioral health organizations can integrate digital risk factors into care delivery. Leaders will gain practical guidance to help teams assess, respond to and support healthier social media use among youth.

Key Takeaways Include:

• A data-informed view of adolescent social media use and mental health trends,
• Clinical guidance to help care teams recognize at-risk behaviors earlier, and
• Strategies to support family education, prevention and healthier digital behavior.

Cost: Free

When: Friday, December 12, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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December 5, 2025

Webinar: Workplace Violence + $61k Turnover Costs: 1 Strategy to Tackle Both, December 11

Violence against healthcare workers has reached a crisis point and hospitals are paying the price. With workplace violence costing billions and turnover averaging $61,110 per departure, the stakes are too high to treat safety and retention as separate challenges.

Forward-thinking systems are reframing visitor management as a strategic platform, one that reduces violence, builds staff trust and supports broader workforce stability.

In this session, learn how leading hospitals are achieving up to a 64% drop in violent incidents and an 81% reduction in staff reported stress by addressing root causes at the front door.

Key Takeaways:

• How visitor management influences workforce wellbeing and organizational risk,
• Scenarios and metrics that resonate with executive stakeholders, and
• A blueprint for aligning safety strategy with retention goals.

Cost: Free

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

December 2, 2025

MRHA Webinar: Ending the Transfer of Dialysis Patients, December 4

Rural hospitals often face no choice but to transfer dialysis patients out of their communities due to a lack of nephrologists or dialysis infrastructure, costing the U.S. healthcare system an estimated $3 billion annually and shifting ongoing care (and revenue) away from local facilities.

This session will feature the Chief Nursing Officer of a critical access hospital who implemented a tele-nephrology program with a team that had no prior dialysis experience. Within the first year4, the hospital successfully cared for over 100 chronic kidney disease patients locally, patients who would have previously been transferred elsewhere.

Learn how this innovative approach not only kept care close to home but also improved hospital finances and community trust.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday December 4, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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December 2, 2025

Webinar: Rewriting the Labor Playbook: Workforce Intelligence and Enablement as a Catalyst for sustainable Margin Improvement, Smarter Physician Compensation, and Enhanced Staff Well-Being, December 5

In today’s healthcare environment, labor costs can determine whether a health system thrives or struggles. Join Paula Phillips (SVP, Operations Infrastructure, Ascension), Bryan Fissel (CFO, Ascension Medical Group), and Bharat Sundaram (CEO, Hallmark Health Care Solutions) for an exclusive discussion on how workforce intelligence and enablement strategies are transforming operational and financial performance at Ascension.

From helping drive millions in margin improvement to simplifying physician compensation, our speakers will share how innovative technology, disciplined leadership, and data-driven decision-making are shaping the future of healthcare labor. This session is designed for senior healthcare executives seeking actionable approaches to balance cost efficiency with mission-driven care.

Learning Points:

• Redefining Workforce Strategy: How to align staffing models with demand to maximize efficiency and strengthen executive control over the total cost of labor.
• Workforce Intelligence as a Catalyst: Explore how AI-driven insights across contingent labor, physician compensation, and care team design can lower expenses, improve revenue, and increase staff engagement.
• Flexibility as a Retention Lever: Understand how giving clinicians more schedule control reduces burnout and turnover, while improving retention.
• Optimizing Physician Compensation: Learn how thoughtful compensation design can drive physician alignment, retention, and overall organizational performance.

Cost: Free

When: Friday, December 5, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

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