Rural Spotlight

June 30, 2026

Whitepaper: How AMC Leaders are Translating Workforce and Research into Business Value

Academic medical centers are facing a convergence of pressures: Medicaid cuts under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, tightening NIH funding and labor costs that now represent 60% of total hospital expenses, up 5.6% in 2025. For many C-suites and boards, the question has become unavoidable – is the academic mission a strategic asset or a sunk cost?

Leaders from Mass General Brigham, OU Health, Northwestern Medicine, Emory Healthcare, Rush University System for Health and other AMCs answered that question at Becker’s 16^th Annual Meeting. Their answer: translate the mission, don’t defund it.

The results speak for themselves. OU Health grew revenue organically from $1.6 billion to $3.6 billion following a merger. UChicago Medicine increased grant submissions 48% year over year. And UVA Health attracted a major pharmaceutical partnership through transparent funds flow. This whitepaper captures the strategies behind those outcomes and more.

Download to learn:

• Why incremental integration fails and what structural change actually requires,
• How AMCs are redesigning workforce as a system-level strategy, not a staffing function,
• How research is being repositioned as a brand differentiator and industry partnership engine, and
• The governance, funds flow and compensation models driving measurable results.

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June 30, 2026

Webinar: Beyond the Bottleneck: How Health Systems are Improving Access, Flow and Care Continuity, July 30

Crowded Eds, delayed discharges, clinician shortages and rising financial pressure are squeezing health systems from every direction. For years the answer was to add capacity. In most markets, that is no longer realistic.

This panel brings together executives from Vituity, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Houston Methodist, City of Hope and Hospital Sisters Health System to discuss a smarter path: redesigning care delivery across the continuum – emergency departments, hospital medicine, ambulatory follow-up, behavioral health, virtual care and community partnerships.

The conversation moves past dashboards to the operational, clinical and workforce alignment that actually moves patients through a system. Leaders will share where flow breaks down, what separates real improvement from cosmetic fixes and how to design care models around the workforce they actually have.

Learnings include:

• Why access is now an enterprise strategy, not a department problem,
• How to align physician groups, nursing, case management and post-acute partners around shared throughput goals,
• Site-of-care strategies – observation, telehealth, behavioral health pathways – that keep avoidable volume out of constrained settings, and
• Where the handoffs between settings turn strategy into a readmission, and how leaders close those gaps.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, July 30, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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June 30, 2026

Webinar: Integrating PrEP into Primary Care: A System-level Approach to HIV Prevention, Outcomes, and Equity, July 7

While HIV prevention continues to be a public health priority, it has often been siloed in specialty settings and inconsistently measured from a quality lens. Health systems that have embedded pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) into primary care are seeing a different story: higher PrEP uptake, more equitable access, and a clearer path to sustainable program growth.

This webinar brings together HIV prevention leaders from NYU Langone Health and Henry Ford Health and others to share how they built and scaled PrEP programs within primary care – and what it took to make them work.

You’ll hear how they:

• Redesigned workflows, care team roles and HER tools to support front-line PrEP delivery,
• Increased uptake of both oral and long-acting injectable PrEP while managing program costs,
• Used data and population health infrastructure to close equity gaps and reach priority populations, and
• Built internal quality measures and a business case to sustain investment at scale.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, July 7, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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June 30, 2026

RHQIX Connect – Live Event, July 9

You don’t have to do rural health improvement alone. Join StratisHealth for a 30-minute interactive session to get a first look at RHQIX, the Rural Health Quality Improvement Exchange, a growing national community designed for rural health quality improvement professionals.

What to Expect:

• A tour of the RHQIX platform,
• How to connect with rural peers across the county,
• Practical tools, resources, and learning opportunities you can use right away, and
• A conversation about what you need and want from this community.

Who Should Attend:

• Rural hospital & clinic leaders and administration,
• Quality, compliance, and patient safety professionals,
• Public health & community partners,
• State Hospital Associations,
• State Offices of Rural Health, and
• Rural Health Partners

This isn’t a traditional webinar. It’s a conversation focused on what you need and how RHQIX can support your work.

Cost: Free

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

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June 29, 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 29, 2026

AI + Digital Health Virtual Event, July 21

Artificial intelligence and digital health are no longer future-facing concepts; they are actively reshaping how health systems operate, compete, and deliver care. From generative AI tools embedded in clinical workflows to enterprise-wide data strategies, healthcare leaders are under pressure to move beyond experimentation and turn innovation into measurable impact. The urgency is real: margins remain tight, workforce shortages persist, and organizations are looking to technology to drive efficiency, scalability and smarter decision-making.

Across three focused sessions, we’ll examine what separates AI pilots from sustainable systemwide adoption, explore the best and worst ideas for integrating AI into the HER, and take a hard look at the next evolution of AI ROI, governance, and data strategy. As AI rapidly moves from experimentation to enterprise expectation. Leaders must balance speed with oversight, innovation with security, and ambition with measurable outcomes.

Whether you’re building an AI roadmap, refining your digital health strategy, or evaluating where to double down and where to pull back, this event is designed to deliver practical insights and executive-level perspectives to help your organization lead in a rapidly evolving digital era.

Agenda Topics:

• Scaling AI Solutions: From Pilot Projects to Systemwide Adoption,
• Integrating AI into EHRs: The Best and Worst Ideas, and
• The Next Evolution of AI ROI and Data Governance

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, July 21, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

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