2026 Education Agenda

Our 2026 Education Agenda focuses on key issues affecting all our members, and drives our conference programming, publications, online learning, and Webinars throughout the year.

Education Agenda topics →

Governance Learning Cohort topics →

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Stronger Leadership. Healthier Communities.

Governance Learning Cohorts

Independent Hospitals →

• What are the right growth and partnership strategies to ensure our resilience?
• How must we transform our governance to meet today’s and tomorrow’s needs?

Health Systems →

• How are we fulfilling our value promise of integration, alignment, and scale?
• How can we leverage technology to further industry transformation?

Subsidiaries →

• What is our role in engaging and educating our communities and consumers?
• How are we leveraging our system relationship to expand our mission and impact?

Academic Health Centers →

• What is our new strategy to advance clinical research and evidence-based medicine?
• How can we lead the charge to build education and recruitment programs today for the clinicians of tomorrow?

Children’s Hospitals →

• How can we support holistic health for children and youth in a constantly changing social climate?
• What partner and payer innovations will accelerate value-based pediatric care?

Public Hospitals →

• How can we build and sustain trust with our communities to ensure ongoing communication and collaboration?
• How do we maintain our safety net in a decreasingly funded operating environment?

Rural & Critical Access Hospitals →

• What are the right bold strategies for eliminating barriers to access?
• Who are the partners that will enable us to continue to fulfill our mission?