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Webinar: Balancing Burnout, Demand and Access: Insights From 4 Leaders, June 24

May 4, 2026

Webinar: Balancing Burnout, Demand and Access: Insights From 4 Leaders, June 24

Join leaders from Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Ventura County Medical Center, Denver Health, and San Juan Regional Medical Center as they share how they are keeping their missions at the forefront while evolving workforce strategies and operating models to meet the unique needs of their patient populations.

Healthcare leaders are under increasing pressure to operate with greater precision, balancing workforce constraints while expanding access to patients facing care access barriers. They are continuously adapting to shifting demand for access, evolving generational expectations within the workforce, and the growing role of AI in day to day operations, reimagining workforce planning in real time.

In this session, panelists will discuss how they have adapted staffing models, reimagined workforce planning, and leveraged technology to stay responsive to changing demand, offering practical insights while remaining centered on patient care and keeping culture at the center of their strategies.

Key takeaways include:

  • Precision in workforce strategy is now mission-critical,
  • Workforce planning is being redefined by shifting expectations and technology, and
  • Patient care and culture remain the anchor amid transformation.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, June 24, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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

May 4, 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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Webinar: AI-embedded EHR: A Practical Path to Outpatient Efficiency, May 27

May 4, 2026

Webinar: AI-embedded EHR: A Practical Path to Outpatient Efficiency, May 27

Ambulatory organizations are under pressure to reduce administrative burden, improve clinician satisfaction and deliver a more consistent patient experience – all without compromising security or trust.

The answer isn’t another bolt-on tool. It’s AI built directly into the EHR workflows clinicians already use.

This webinar explores how an AI-embedded platform addresses persistent outpatient challenges: supporting seamless transitions for clinicians across devices and roles, reducing documentation load and enabling more informed decisions – while keeping governance and security practices integrated by design.

Key Learnings:

  • How AI embedded in EHR workflows streamlines clinical operations end-to-end,
  • Ways conversational search and AI-powered clinical summaries improve access to information and support faster decisions,
  • Governance and security considerations for deploying AI responsibly in the clinical setting, and
  • How to measure outcomes that matter: clinical efficiency, care team experience and patient trust.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, May 27, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Whitepaper: Agentic AI in Healthcare: The Transformational Impact & How to Prepare

May 4, 2026

Whitepaper: Agentic AI in Healthcare: The Transformational Impact & How to Prepare

Traditional automation has improved efficiency, but it remains limited by static rules and predefined workflows.

As operational complexity increases, leaders are expected to make faster, more accurate decisions across revenue cycle, care delivery and population health – often without the real-time insights required to do so. Manual exception handling, delayed claims processing and fragmented data continue to strain both provider and payer organizations.

Agentic AI introduces a different model.

By operating autonomously within defined processes, learning from new information and adapting to changing conditions, agentic AI extends beyond conventional RPA and generative AI. It can analyze large datasets, identify patterns and guide evidence-based strategies across departments.

However, successful implementation requires careful attention to data security, transparency, workforce readiness and governance structures.

This report outlines how healthcare leaders can move from experimentation to structured adoption.

Key takeaways include:

  • The defining characteristics that differentiate agentic AI from traditional AI from traditional AI and automation,
  • Real-world provider and payer applications that improve operational and financial performance,
  • Risks leaders must address, including security, oversight and workforce training, and
  • A step-by-step preparation roadmap, from pilots to enterprise integration.

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Webinar: The Current Telehealth Policy Landscape: What System Leaders Need to Know, May 27

May 4, 2026

Webinar: The Current Telehealth Policy Landscape: What System Leaders Need to Know, May 27

Telehealth policy is shifting fast – and the decisions being made now will shape how hospitals and health systems deliver virtual care for years to come.

Federal waivers have been extended through 2027, but long-term permanence remains unresolved, state regulations continue to diverge, and payment policy is creating new pressure points across cardiovascular and chronic disease programs.

In this live webinar, a national policy research analyst at the American Heart Association and UNC Health’s chief medical informatics officer will break down the policy environment in plain terms – and explain what it means for your organization.

Key Takeaways:

  • How federal and state laws, regulations and waivers are shaping telehealth delivery today,
  • How payment policy and coverage decisions affect the sustainability of virtual care programs,
  • The American Heart Association’s current policy priorities in telehealth and digital health, and
  • How evolving policy affects equity, access and outcomes in cardiovascular and chronic disease care.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, May 27, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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

May 4, 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 advanced 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,
  • Strategize 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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MHA Health Institute – From Staff Nurse to Charge Nurse, June 2 & August 6

May 1, 2026

MHA Health Institute – From Staff Nurse to Charge Nurse, June 2 & August 6

This event will focus on the unique challenges nurses face when transitioning from peer to leader and professional role model within clinical settings. You will explore leadership styles that support safe, high-quality patient care, strategies for navigating conflict on fast paced units, and communication techniques that strengthen teamwork across the interdisciplinary care team. Additional topics include effective delegation aligned with scope of practice, fostering psychological safety, and practical approaches to protecting your mental, emotional, and physical well-being while leading in today’s demanding healthcare environment.

Objectives:

Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:

  • Identify characteristics of a good charge nurse and how to build upon these attributes,
  • Identify key differences and challenges of transitioning from a peer to a leader and role model as a charge nurse,
  • Develop and recognize a charge nurse’s role in positively affecting productivity, team collaboration, staff retention and patient outcomes,
  • Describe and apply the role emotional intelligence plays in building trusting relationships, resolving conflict and improving communication,
  • Identify and develop methods to overcome obstacles/challenges as a leader in an ever-changing and chaotic health care environment,
  • Outline approaches to improve the art of delegation and accountability for outcomes,
  • Describe responsibilities and obligations to regulatory bodies, upper leadership, staff, patients and self while functioning in the charge nurse position, and
  • Develop survival techniques for your mental, emotional and physical well-being, as well as professional growth.

Cost:

  • MHA Members – $395
  • Non-members – $495

When: Tuesday, June 2 and Thursday August 6, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

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PFAC Office Hours: HCAHPS Questions – The Hospital Environment, June 3

May 1, 2026

PFAC Office Hours: HCAHPS Questions – The Hospital Environment, June 3

This virtual event will empower health care professionals with practical strategies to elevate patient experience and improve Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems performance. The conversation is guided by patient experience leaders across the state and will focus specifically on the HCAHPS domains regarding the hospital environment.

Through real-world examples and evidence-based techniques, speakers will address the moments that matter most to patients. Attendees will gain actionable tools to strengthen consistency in care delivery, leading to improved patient perceptions and stronger HCAHPS results.

This event is designed to provide insights you can implement immediately to enhance teamwork, elevate patient-centered care, and positively impact both patient satisfaction and organizational outcomes. Because this is an office hours call format, during the last half of the call, members of MHA’s statewide Patient and Family Advisory Council will field questions, share stories and have conversations with the audience.

To ensure you receive all course materials needed to participate, register before June 3, 2026, 12 p.m.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, June 3, 1:00 p.m. – 2 p.m.

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On-Demand Webinar: How AdventHealth Improved Care Transitions and Drove $48.6M in Operational Value

May 1, 2026

On-Demand Webinar: How AdventHealth Improved Care Transitions and Drove $48.6M in Operational Value

Length of stay is one of the most significant sources of avoidable cost and operational strain in hospitals today, yet many health systems still struggle to reduce unwarranted variation in inpatient days in a clinically appropriate and sustainable way.

In this webinar, hospital leaders will hear how AdventHealth addressed avoidable length of stay by aligning IT and care management and implementing coordinated changes to people, processes and technology. Presenters will share how greater transparency across discharge processes supported timely, appropriate post-acute placement – enhancing patient-centered care and creating more predictable patient flow.

Attendees will learn how this work helped AdventHealth unlock $48.6M in system-wide value (full-year impact), achieve a 9% improvement in length of stay, cut post-acute placement time in half and improve patient flow across more than 50 hospitals.

Attendees will learn how to:

  • Identify the highest-impact drivers of avoidable length of stay tied to post-acute discharge delays,
  • Align IT and care management to improve visibility, accountability and timely decision-making,
  • Translate length of stay improvement into measurable financial impact and increased capacity, and
  • Apply a repeatable, system-ready approach to sustaining care transition improvements at scale while integrating with an existing EMR.

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Webinar: How to Become the Top Choice for Local Patient Care: Reputation, Visibility and Trust in the AI Era, May 21

May 1, 2026

Webinar: How to Become the Top Choice for Local Patient Care: Reputation, Visibility and Trust in the AI Era, May 21

Imagine a patient asking an AI assistant to find the best hospital nearby – and your organization doesn’t appear. Not because of care quality, but because your digital reputation doesn’t reflect it.

This session will give you a clear framework for building the kind of online presence that earns visibility in both traditional and AI-driven search – so your organization shows up when and where patients are looking.

Baptist Memorial Health Care is already doing this work. In just two years, the system scaled from 4,000 to more than 50,000 annual reviews, raised its average rating from 4.4 to 4.7 stars and earned Best in Class reputation awards for 400-plus locations. Their experience offers a practical roadmap for health systems ready to take reputation strategy seriously.

Join this conversation to learn what it takes to turn patient feedback into a competitive advantage.

  • How Baptist Memorial Health Care built a systemwide reputation strategy that delivered measurable results,
  • Why reviews and patient sentiment are now critical to visibility in AI-powered search,
  • How to position your organization as the top choice when patients use conversational AI to find care, and
  • Actionable steps to operationalize feedback collection and strengthen patient trust at scale.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, May 21, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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