May 27, 2026

MRHA Webinar: Missouri Rural Food Access Partnership, June 4

June marks the completion of the second year of the Missouri Rural Food Access Partnership (MRFAP) grant, and this session will provide a comprehensive update on the progress made toward strengthening healthy food access across rural Missouri.

Participants will learn about advancements toward creating a statewide healthy food financing initiative and hear highlights from key projects and partner contributions.

This webinar will also introduce the first draft of the Missouri Good Food Charter – developed by MRFAP members to outline the most urgent food system priorities necessary to ensure all Missourians can access nutritious, affordable food.

Attendees will have the opportunity to explore ways to get involved and help shape the future of rural food access efforts.

Cost: Free

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

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May 27, 2026

MRHA Virtual Learning Session: Local Health Department Capacity, Public Health Priorities, and Community Health Workers: Two Studies on LHD Capacity and the Potential of Community Health Workers, May 28

*Please note that the topic for this webinar has been updated. The previously scheduled presentation, “A Systems Approach to Preparing the Health Workforce for Social Determinants of Health,” has been replaced with this session.

This webinar uses national data from the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) National Profile of Health Departments survey to explore organizational capacity in local health departments (LHDs) and how it relates to foundational public health services (FPHS) capabilities and health screenings in LHDs. There is substantial variation between LHDs in different contexts in terms of their organizational capacity, and capacity can impact what LHDs can accomplish.

Two studies will be discussed. First, you will examine differences in LHDs’ FPHS activities between expenditure levels, full time equivalent positions, and local population size. Second, you will examine health screening activities among LHDs who employ a community health worker (CHW), a physician, both, or neither. Capacity matters a great deal for what LHDs can do, but LHDs may be able to act strategically to increase capacity and thus their activities.

Cost: Free

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

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May 27, 2026

On-Demand Webinar: The Hidden Barrier to AI: Why Legacy Systems and App Sprawl are Slowing Healthcare Innovation

Healthcare organizations are investing heavily in AI and digital innovation – yet many are discovering that legacy systems, redundant applications and fragmented infrastructure are slowing progress. Before scaling AI or advanced analytics, many healthcare IT, digital and compliance leaders are realizing they must address decades of accumulated technical debt.

This session will explore how healthcare IT leaders are approaching application rationalization and legacy modernization as strategic enablers of AI, cloud transformation and operational efficiency. Speakers will share practical approaches for evaluating legacy systems, reducing application sprawl and aligning platforms to support the next generation of healthcare technologies.

Key learning points:

• Why legacy systems and application sprawl are emerging as major barriers to AI and digital transformation,
• Practical frameworks for evaluating and rationalizing healthcare application portfolios,
• How leading health systems are balancing modernization with operational stability,
• Strategies for aligning infrastructure, security and governance when retiring legacy systems, and
• Where CIOs should start when building a modern digital foundation for AI

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May 27, 2026

Webinar: Why Dashboards Alone Aren’t Fixing Patient Flow, June 24

Most hospitals have invested heavily in visibility in the form of dashboards, daily huddle reports, capacity snapshots and more. Yet boarded emergency department patients, delayed discharges and capacity bottlenecks remain stubbornly familiar.

The problem is rarely a lack of data. It is the gap between what the data shows and what teams can act on in time. By the time a daily report surfaces a bottleneck, the bed is already full, the discharge has already slipped, and the ED is already holding patients overnight.

Baptist Health Arkansas decided to close that gap.

Cody Walker, President of Baptist Health Medical Center-North Little Rock, will share how Baptist moved past visibility into action by embedding predictive intelligence and automation into core workflows. The phased, data-driven approach delivered a 25% reduction in avoidable opportunity days and 525 fewer boarded ED patients per month.

Learnings include:

• Where dashboards fall short and what replaces them,
• How predictive intelligence and automation cut avoidable delays,
• The phased model behind Baptist’s measurable throughput gains, and
• How real-time collaboration changes front-line decision-making.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, June 24, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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May 27, 2026

Webinar: From Alarm Management to Personalized Care: Turning clinical Surveillance Data into Safer Pediatric Long-Term Care, June 25

Pediatric long-term residential care demands continuous visibility across dispersed neighborhoods, especially for children moving on and off mechanical ventilation.

Elizabeth Seton Children’s Center expanded ventilator beds in its home-like environment and adopted a customizable clinical surveillance platform integrating ventilator and vital-sign data into near-real-time dashboards and alerts. Personalized alarm limits, smart alert conditions and remote triage help teams cut non-actionable alarms, unnecessary room entries and PPE cycles. Trend reports drive objective, interdisciplinary clinical conversations and tailored interventions for patterns like desaturations or temperature instability, while custom reporting locates ventilators and streamlines preventive maintenance.

ESCC leaders will share practical lessons on governance, customization and resident-centered care.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Describe how customizable surveillance supports monitoring across dispersed pediatric long-term care, with ventilator data integrated into near-real-time dashboards/alerts.
• Explain how personalized alarm limits, smart alert logic and remote triage cut non-actionable alarms and room entries while supporting staff efficiency and resident safety.
• Identify how surveillance reporting and trend reviews drive objective, interdisciplinary clinical conversations and personalized interventions.

Cost: Free

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

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May 21, 2026

Continuing Education Webinar: The Rural Stroke Readiness Blueprint: Coordinating Emergency Care, June 9

Join the American Heart Association for a continuing education webinar. This program delivers an evidence-based overview of acute ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage management in rural settings. Designed for rural hospitals, EDs, and EMS teams, the activity focuses on telestroke utilization, streamlined diagnostics, pediatric stroke care, and efficient transfer workflows. Participants will gain practical tools and strategies to improve stroke readiness, guideline adherence, and time-critical decision-making.

Program overview:
Stroke care in rural settings is time‑critical and often complex due to limited resources and longer transfer times. This program provides practical, up‑to‑date guidance to help rural teams quickly recognize and treat both ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes.

Who should attend:
Rural clinicians and care teams, including physicians (MD/DO), PAs, NPs, and nurses involved in emergency, observation, quality improvement, or inpatient stroke care.

A Continuing Education Activity:

The maximum number of hours awarded for this CE is 1.5 credit hours

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, June 9, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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May 21, 2026

Webinar: Food is Medicine Under RFK Jr., May 27

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has shone a spotlight on food. The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services sees it as a primary tool for treating chronic disease and has targeted ultra-processed foods, reformed the federal dietary guidelines and pushed nutrition education in medical schools.

What has it meant for the burgeoning food is medicine movement? Is the new administration progressing policy to increase nutrition’s reach in healthcare? Are more providers embracing the movement? Or has the government gone too far in its belief in the power of food to treat illness?

Wisconsin Health News is assembling a virtual panel of experts to discuss the future of food as medicine.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, May 27, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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May 21, 2026

American Heart Association’s Webinar Practical Considerations for the Use of GLP1 Medications in Type 2 Diabetes, June 1

This webinar will provide an overview of the considerations for use of GLP-1 receptor agonist medications for people with Type 2 diabetes.

Learn about the current guidelines for pharmacological management of Type 2 diabetes, the benefits of using GLP-1 medications such as their cardiovascular and kidney protective effects, and ways to overcome common prescribing barriers.

Cost: Free

When: Monday, June 1, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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These Resources may help with the implementation of the related best practices including:

• Guide to Overcoming Medication Reluctance
• Professional Learning: A Comprehensive Clinical Approach to Cardiovascular- Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome

May 19, 2026

Webinar: The Data Problem Standing Between Your Organization and AI That Works, June 30

Healthcare organizations are moving fast on AI – but many are hitting a more fundamental obstacle: their data is not ready to support it.

Fragmented records, interoperability gaps and unreliable pipelines mean AI results can be inconsistent, hard to trust and nearly impossible to scale beyond early pilots. For clinical and digital leaders, the question is no longer whether to adopt AI but whether the underlying data can support it.

This webinar examines what it takes to move from fragmented information to trusted, actionable insight – and how organizations that get this right are better positioned to move faster, go further and create real impact at scale.

Insights include:

• Methods for transforming large-scale health data into actionable insights,
• Strategies for closing interoperability gaps and implementing AI at scale, and
• Lessons from long-term data integration and the impact on patient and community health outcomes.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, June 30, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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May 19, 2026

Webinar: Why Dashboards Alone Aren’t Fixing Patient Flow, June 24

Most hospitals have invested heavily in visibility in the form of dashboards, daily huddle reports, capacity snapshots and more. Yet boarded emergency department patients, delayed discharges and capacity bottlenecks remain stubbornly familiar.

The problem is rarely a lack of data. It is the gap between what the data shows and what teams can act on in time. By the time a daily report surfaces a bottleneck, the bed is already full, the discharge has already slipped and the ED is already holding patient overnight.

Baptist Health Arkansas decided to close that gap.

Cody Walker, President of Baptist Health Medical Center – North Little Rock, will share how Baptist moved past visibility into action by embedding predictive intelligence and automation into core workflows. The phased, data-driven approach delivered a 25% reduction in avoidable opportunity days and 525 fewer boarded ED patients per month.

Learnings include:

• Where dashboards fall short and what replaces them,
• How predictive intelligence and automation cut avoidable delays,
• The phased model behind Baptist’s measurable throughput gains, and
• How real-time collaboration changes front-line decision-making.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, June 24, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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