Rural Spotlight

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.

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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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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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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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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July 16, 2025

How OSF HealthCare is Rethinking Onboarding to Improve Retention

Burnout, turnover, disengagement – health systems are losing staff before they’ve had a chance to thrive. At OSF HealthCare, leaders realized that traditional onboarding models weren’t enough. So they reimagined the experience.

In this exclusive session, OSF’s HR team will share how they’ve operationalized a “hire to retire” strategy using a unified digital platform to create a seamless onboarding journey – one that boosts engagement from day one and supports long-term workforce retention.

You’ll hear how OSF is connecting the dots between onboarding, operations and employee satisfaction, and what other systems can learn from their approach.

Key Takeaways:

• How OSF HealthCare is streamlining onboarding to reduce friction and accelerate employee readiness,
• Why personalization matters, and how to scale it without increasing HR burden, and
• The building blocks of a systemwide workforce engagement strategy that sticks.

Cost: Free

When: On-demand, watch at your convenience

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