Rural Spotlight

NRHA’s Rural Health Clinic Leader Certification Program, Starts July 15

July 8, 2026

NRHA’s Rural Health Clinic Leader Certification Program, Starts July 15

Rural Health Clinic Leaders are essential to the success and well-being of rural communities. It is critical that these leaders have the tools, knowledge, and network of peers and experts to succeed in their roles.

Leading a rural health clinic presents unique challenges, which is why this program was specifically designed to support and strengthen the leadership of those serving in these vital positions and making a positive impact on their rural community.

Created by rural health clinic leaders for rural health clinic leaders. This curriculum was developed by asking successful rural health clinic leaders this question: “What do you know now that you wish you would have known then?”

Rural health clinics and their leadership are critical to the health and well-being of communities. Leadership, operations, clinical care, and finances look different in rural health clinics, one of the resounding reasons for the creation of this program.

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Whitepaper: Healthcare’s Age of Abundance: How Health Systems are Leaving Scarcity Behind

July 8, 2026

Whitepaper: Healthcare’s Age of Abundance: How Health Systems are Leaving Scarcity Behind

Scarcity has always shaped healthcare. “Triage” assumes there isn’t enough to treat everyone at the level they need. “Population health” often means concentrating limited resources on the highest-risk sliver of a panel. But a new generation of clinically safe AI voice agents is beginning to change that equation, not by automating existing work, but by enabling care that was never possible before.

The results from health systems already deploying these agents are striking. At Advocate Health, AI completed in a single month the patient outreach that previously took 12 months of cold calling. At Cincinnati Children’s, completion of health risk assessment calls to Spanish-speaking families jumped from under 2% to over 4o%, with patient experience scores above 9 out of 10.

This report compiles what leaders from Advocate Health, WellSpan, Cincinnati Children’s Cleveland Clinic and OhioHealth are learning as clinical capacity becomes effectively infinite.

Learnings include:

  • How leaders are moving from “autopilot” tasks to care never attempted before,
  • What rising connection and enrollment rates reveal about patient receptivity to AI,
  • How AI is freeing nurses to work at the top of their license, and
  • What clinical safety by design looks like in real deployments.

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Webinar: Released OR Time is Leaving Capacity – and Revenue – on the Table, July 22

July 8, 2026

Webinar: Released OR Time is Leaving Capacity – and Revenue – on the Table, July 22

OR inefficiency doesn’t always look like downtime. It often hides in missed opportunities – unused blocks, delayed scheduling and reactive processes. At many health systems, released OR time becomes a quiet drain: lost revenue, surgeon frustration and underused capacity at exactly the moment demand is rising.

The traditional tools aren’t keeping up. Emails and spreadsheets create friction, slow handoffs and obscure where capacity is actually available. Surgeons get frustrated. Schedulers get overwhelmed. Volume growth stalls.

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova took a different approach. Its predictive orchestration model replaced reactive scheduling with a system designed to surface available time and match it to the right requestors, driving a 46% release fill rate, 20% more OR minutes available and case volume growth among top open-time requestors, including 8% growth in OR cases and 13% growth in endoscopy cases.

In this webinar, Inova leaders will share what changed and how.

Key Learnings Include:

  • The strategies and tech behind Inova’s 46% release fill rate,
  • How centralized scheduling, data transparency and governance fueled adoption, and
  • Tactics to engage surgeons, improve labor efficiency and scale success.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, July 22, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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MRHA Webinar: Nurse Call and Wander Management Systems for Rural Healthcare, July 16

July 8, 2026

MRHA Webinar: Nurse Call and Wander Management Systems for Rural Healthcare, July 16

Join ECC and TekTone for an in-depth look at modern nurse call and wander management solutions designed to meet the unique needs of rural healthcare facilities. This session will showcase the latest Tek-CARE technologies, including Tek-CARE400 GEN3 nurse call, Tek-CARE700 Wander Management, and the expanding Tek-CARE ecosystem of workflow and alerting tools.

Participants will learn how fully integrated wireless pendants, wired audio-visual nurse call systems, resident wander management, and alert integration can operate simultaneously on a single platform. The presentation will highlight how these solutions help rural facilities improve staff efficiency, enhance resident satisfaction, and modernize infrastructure in a cost-effective and scalable way.

Designed for a wide range of care environments from small care homes to large hospitals – TekTone nurse call systems are UL® listed and customizable to meet regulatory and operational requirements across multiple settings.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, July 16, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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MRHA Webinar: Digital Lifelines: Smarter Telemedicine and AI Use, July 9

July 8, 2026

MRHA Webinar: Digital Lifelines: Smarter Telemedicine and AI Use, July 9

Join Jackson Lewis for an engaging session exploring how telemedicine and artificial intelligence are reshaping healthcare delivery in rural communities.

This webinar will examine common sources of malpractice and employer liability in telehealth, best practices for provider communication and care handoffs, and emerging legal risks tied to AI use in healthcare. Through real-world case examples and practical guidance, participants will gain strategies to help reduce risk, strengthen documentation practices, and responsibly integrate new technologies into patient care.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, July 9, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Whitepaper: Hospitals Win or Lose Patients at the Digital Front Door

July 8, 2026

Whitepaper: Hospitals Win or Lose Patients at the Digital Front Door

Patient trust in healthcare has fallen sharply — only 24% of Americans now believe providers prioritize care over profits, down from 77% in December 2021. For a growing share of patients, that judgment is forming online, before they ever schedule an appointment.

A new national survey of 1,000 U.S. adults, paired with in-depth user experience interviews, reveals how much weight patients now place on the digital front door. Three in four use hospital or health system websites during their care decisions. Eight in ten say better digital experiences would make them more likely to engage with their provider.

This whitepaper translates the research into a clear view of where digital friction is costing patient volume and what marketing and digital leaders can do about it.

Inside the report:

  • Why patients now equate digital quality with care quality
  • Where onsite search is breaking down — and what patients expect instead
  • How task abandonment converts into call center overflow and lost revenue
  • Why Gen Z and Millennial expectations are widening the gap fastest

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On-Demand Webinar: What the Data Says: A Candid Conversation on Healthcare Operations Today

July 8, 2026

On-Demand Webinar: What the Data Says: A Candid Conversation on Healthcare Operations Today

Hospital operating margins closed out 2025 at an adjusted year-to-date rate of 1.3%, according to Kaufman Hall. At that threshold, a single operational inefficiency can quickly become a financial crisis.

This on-demand sessions offers a data-driven look at where health systems are struggling – and where early progress is being made.

Drawing from a pre-event survey of 70+ healthcare leaders and live polling conducted with executive, clinical and operational audiences, the conversation covers margin pressure and AI adoption in healthcare operations.

Int this session, you will learn:

  • Why financial pressure dominates as the top operational challenge, cited by 52% of surveyed leaders,
  • Where AI adoption is breaking down: 30% of executives cited prohibitive cost to scale as the primary obstacle.

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Webinar: Why Digital Health Strategies Stall at the Front Lines: 4 Systems Weigh In, July 14

July 8, 2026

Webinar: Why Digital Health Strategies Stall at the Front Lines: 4 Systems Weigh In, July 14

Healthcare organizations have spent years building digital strategies. A lack of ambition is not the issue. The challenge is that most strategies still don’t translate to the people delivering care.

Front-line clinicians are quietly opting out of tools they were never consulted on. Executives are tracking dashboards that don’t reflect day-to-day workflow reality. The feedback loops meant to bridge the two are slow, ad hoc or missing entirely. The result? Stalled adoption, frustrated teams and digital investments that fail to move the needle on the outcomes they were funded to improve.

In this session, clinical and informatics leaders from Ballad Health, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Jersey Shore University Medical Center and RWJBarnabas Health will have a candid conversation on closing those gaps.

Insights include:

  • Where digital strategy most often disconnects from the front lines
  • How to structure feedback loops between clinicians and executive decision-makers
  • Defining “digital maturity” so it resonates across all stakeholders
  • The non-negotiables in a digital health roadmap and what tends to get overlooked

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, July 14, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Webinar: Price Transparency, Done Right: Putting Medication Access in Patients Hands, July 16

July 8, 2026

Webinar: Price Transparency, Done Right: Putting Medication Access in Patients Hands, July 16

Real-time medication price transparency is no longer a someday ambition. As of 2025, 75 percent of hospitals had integrated real-time prescription benefit information for at least some payers, according to federal and CMS has required Medicare Part D plans to support these tools since 2021.

This fireside chat takes that question head-on. Rather than staying at the vision level, the conversation digs into what real transparency requires at the point of care, where the friction lives and what it takes to put cost and access information directly in patients hands without straining the provider-patient relationship.

In this 60-minute session, you’ll learn:

  • What real-time medication price transparency looks like when it works for every party,
  • How to surface cost and access information without disrupting the provider-patient relationship, and
  • Where the operational and incentive tensions live, and how leaders are navigating them.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, July 16, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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PROMPT RHC Learning Network In-Person Meeting, August 27

June 30, 2026

PROMPT RHC Learning Network In-Person Meeting, August 27

The Missouri PROMPT Learning Network is transforming how Missouri Rural Health Clinics succeed in today’s evolving healthcare environment. This statewide collaborative equips Missouri RHCs with expert guidance, peer support, and practical tools to strengthen operations, improve care, advance Value-Based care efforts, and pursue NCQQ PCMH recognition.

The next Missouri’s PROMPT RHC Learning Network Meeting will be held in person, on August 27, 2026. The robust meeting agenda includes Federal and State Experts which you can connect with to help you stay ahead of industry changes.

Why Participate?

PROMPT helps Missouri Rural Health Clinics elevate patient care, strengthen performance data, leverage DRVS for measurable QI progress, meet payer and funder requirements, and grow within Value-Based care – supported every step of the way by industry-leading SMEs and peers who understand rural healthcare.

What PROMPT offers:

  • Direct access to federal and state experts and leading healthcare subject matter experts (SMEs),
  • Real-world strategies to enhance clinical data and operational efficiency,
  • Tailored support focused on Missouri’s rural healthcare challenges,
  • Guidance to advance and sustain Value-Based Care models,
  • Best practices for using DRVS to support Population Health Management, drive QI intiatives, and improve clinical quality measures,
  • A featured spotlight on a Missouri Rural Health Clinic each session.

Key Focus Areas:

  • Collaboration & networking,
  • Quality improvement and best-practice sharing,
  • Data analytics, data hygiene, and performance reporting,
  • Value-Based Care transformation and readiness,
  • Effective use of DRVS for PHM, QI initiatives, and quality measure improvement,
  • Insights and guidance from expert SMEs, and
  • Highlighting success stories from Missouri Rural Health Clinics.

Funding is available for the RHCs to cover a one-night hotel stay for up to 2 rooms (2 double queen rooms) and mileage for one vehicle. Please contact Lisab@cabllc.com for more information.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, August 27, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Where:

Missouri Soybean Association, 734 S. Country Club Drive, Jefferson City, MO 65109.

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