Rural Spotlight

June 1, 2026

Webinar: Where Revenue Leakage Starts: The Hidden Cost of Manual Healthcare Processes, June 3

Regulated healthcare environments face constant pressure to keep patient access, registration, documentation, verification, reminders, and exception handling moving without adding administrative burden to frontline teams.

In this session, you’ll explore how AI agents can support the “work behind the work” by automating high-volume, time-sensitive processes before inefficiencies impact staff, patient experience, or revenue. The webinar will open with insights from Druid AI’s AI Adoption in Healthcare Benchmark Report, a production-data-based market analysis that highlights the top healthcare AI use cases and the adoption patterns emerging across real deployments. You’ll also hear from Advanced Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery (ADCS), exploring how its patient-facing AI agent supports appointment management and clinic information requests across multiple locations – helping reduce call center burden while keeping human escalation available when needed.

Learning Points:

• Spot where revenue leakage begins across patient access, verification, appointment management, and follow-up,
• Understand key healthcare AI adoption patterns from real deployment data,
• See how ADCS uses AI agents to support patients across locations,
• Learn how AI agents reduce call center pressure while preserving human escalation, and
• Explore practical ways to improve responsiveness and operational resilience.

The session will close with Joe Nieto from Element Blue, who will share how Druid AI agents integrate with existing healthcare systems – including legacy platforms, EHRs, and workflows – without a full rip-and-replace approach.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, June 3, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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June 1, 2026

On-Demand Webinar: How Providence is Integrating Precision Medicine at Scale

Most health systems still treat genomic testing as a downstream step – ordered late, received late and rarely integrated into the broader care plan. Providence is doing it differently.

By embedding genomics directly into clinical workflows, including pathology-initiated testing that delivers meaningful insights at the point of diagnosis, Providence Genomics has built a model that connects testing, care delivery, and research at scale.

This session features Carlo Bifulco, MD, Chief Medical officer of Providence Genomics, who walks through how the organization moved from fragmented, reactive care to a proactive, data-driven approach across oncology, prevention, pharmacogenomics and population health.

Key takeaways:

• How pathology-initiated testing ensures clinicians have genomic insights at the point of diagnosis,
• Why precision medicine programs are expanding beyond oncology into prevention and pharmacogenomics,
• How integrating genomics with EHRs, AI tools, and care teams enables systemwide scalability, and
• How genomic data access supports clinical trial enrollment and continuous innovation.

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June 1, 2026

Webinar: How 2 Health Systems Found Their Next Nurses Already on the Payroll, June 11

Persistent vacancies, rising contract labor costs and limited access to local nursing education are squeezing health systems, especially in rural and regional markets.

In response, many organizations are working harder to recruit. A smaller number are taking a different approach: building nursing pipelines within their existing workforce.  North Platte, Neb.-based Great Plains Health and Sierra View Medical Center in Porterville, Calif., are 2 such systems. Both decided to stop competing for the same shrinking talent pool and instead build their workforce from within.

In this 60-minute discussion, Ivan Mitchell, CEO of Great Plains Health, Jeff Hudson-Convolo, DNP, R.N., President of the Association of California Nurse Leaders (ACNL), and Brandy Irwin, MSN, RN, vice president of patient care and CNO of Sierra View Medical Center, will walk through how their teams moved from idea to launch and how they built the executive and board alignment to make it happen.

What attendees will take away:

• The board-level framing that wins approval for workforce infrastructure,
• A CFO-ready financial model and the assumptions behind it,
• The CNO and CHRO considerations that determine whether the program succeeds, and
• How to design for replication so the first cohort isn’t the last.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, June 11, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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June 1, 2026

Webinar: From Early Adoption to Enterprise ROI: Lessons From Nursing Deployments with AI, June 3

AI-powered nursing workflows are helping nurses spend less time completing documentation, but time saved is only the beginning of the ROI story.

In this KLAS-moderated webinar, nursing and health system leaders from Reid Health and Corewell Health will share what real-world deployments are revealing about the ROI impact of AI for nursing. Drawing from implementations, the discussion will explore how health systems are measuring documentation time savings, driving nurse adoption, and connecting workflow improvements to broader operational value.

Panelists will discuss what happens when documentation becomes easier to complete in the flow of care, how recovered time can support nurses and care teams, more presence with patients, and what leaders should consider as they scale AI initiatives across units and workflows.

Join this session to learn how health systems are moving from early efficiency gains to a more mature view of nursing ROI that includes time, adoption, nurse experience, documentation quality, and sustainable change at the bedside.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, June 3, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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June 1, 2026

Webinar: The First 24 Hours: How Novant Health and Others are Redesigning Post-Incident Support for Healthcare Workers, June 9

Imagine a hospital where, in the hours after a critical incident, the response is structured and trauma informed. Where clinicians don’t carry the “second victim” experience back into their next shift in silence. Where managers know what to say in the moments that matter most.

That kind of support isn’t theoretical. It’s what leading systems are building – and what this webinar will unpack.

Wendy Renedo, manager of well-being and resiliency at Novant Health, will share how the system is moving beyond one-time debriefs toward structured post-event support. Kimberly Johnson, PhD, of the Emotional PPE Project, will draw on her work in trauma, compassion fatigue and mental health support for clinical teams to walk through what front-line leaders most often miss in the first 24 hours.

Learnings include:

• Why managers and front-line leaders need clearer tools for responding in the moment,
• How guilt, fear, shame and the “second victim” experience affect healthcare workers after traumatic events, and
• How structured, trauma-informed support strengthens psychological safety and helps teams recover beyond a one-time debrief.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, June 9, 12:00 p.m. – 1:oo p.m.

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June 1, 2026

Webinar: How Ochsner Health is Aligning Perioperative Performance, Supply Chain, & Clinical Variation, June 4

The perioperative environment is one of the largest untapped sources of financial and operational improvement in health systems – and most organizations still aren’t capturing it.

Unwarranted clinical variation, misaligned supply chain strategy and siloed decision-making quietly erode margins without triggering obvious alarms. The systems pulling ahead are the ones connecting data, physicians and finance around a shared operational picture.

Ochsner Health is one of them. In this webinar, leaders from Ochsner will share how they’re approaching perioperative optimization through advance analytics, physician engagement and cross-functional collaboration – and what it takes to translate data into decisions that actually move margins.

You’ll leave with:

• How to identify the key drivers of perioperative margin leakage in your organization,
• Strategies to reduce clinical variation through physician alignment and data transparency,
• How supply chain optimization directly affects financial and clinical performance, and
• Approaches to building collaboration across medical, operational and finance teams.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, June 4, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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May 28, 2026

Webinar: The Hidden Cost of Denials: How Independent Practices are Protecting Cash Flow, June 11

For independent practices, denials don’t just delay payments. They drain staff time, strain margins, and create backlogs that take weeks to unwind. The financial impact is visible in A/R reports. The operational impact is felt in every billing cycle.

Most of the damage starts earlier than teams realize. Inconsistent documentation, eligibility gaps, and small coding errors compound into the denials practices spend their afternoons chasing.

Join this live discussion on June 11 to hear practical strategies for tightening claim accuracy and shortening A/R cycles without replacing existing billing systems. The session focuses on operational improvements that orthopedic, urology, and MSK practices can act on now, drawing on real-world experience supporting independent practices through cash flow pressure.

Inside the session:

• Common denial root causes and how to improve first-pass claim performance,
• Strategies to reduce A/R days and stabilize cash flow, and
• Best practices to protect margins and ease administrative burden.

Cost: Free

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

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