Healthcare leaders are making generational decisions about rural care delivery, financial resilience, primary care economics, AI governance and patient safety. Organizations are testing models, piloting frameworks and reshaping operations under pressure every day.
Below are five resources from Becker’s Healthcare worth a closer look this week. It features perspectives from leaders at Avera Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, University of Maryland Medical System, Elizabeth Seton Children’s Center and more.
1. $50B and a once-in-a-generation chance to redesign rural healthcare: Avera Health on translating policy into execution
Rural healthcare is under unprecedented strain — margins eroding, workforce shortages persisting and access contracting as service lines close. The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program offers something rare: a once-in-a-generation chance to redesign care delivery rather than just stabilize it. In this webinar, Avera Health CMO Kevin Post and other leaders share how leaders are navigating capital allocation, governance, virtual care strategy and workforce design to determine which systems come out of this window stronger.
Essential viewing for rural health system CEOs, CFOs and strategy leaders responsible for turning a funding window into durable results.
2. How 3 CFOs at UMMS, Santa Clara Health and Speare Memorial are future-proofing hospital finances
CFOs are making some of the toughest financial calls in a generation, and the margin for error has never been thinner. In this discussion, CFOs from University of Maryland Medical System, County of Santa Clara Health System and Speare Memorial Hospital share how they’re restructuring revenue cycle, prioritizing capital and using AI to close chronic workforce gaps — including a look at how AI tools have become a recruitment lever in hard-to-staff roles like coding and clinical documentation.
Recommended for CFOs, finance leaders and senior executives focused on long-term financial resilience under tightening conditions.
3. How Weill Cornell Medicine and Mission Heritage are scaling hybrid concierge models
Health systems are facing mounting pressure on primary care economics, physician burnout and patient access but the most forward-thinking leaders are finding ways to address all three without restructuring what already works. In this session, leaders from Weill Cornell Medicine and Mission Heritage Medical Group share how they piloted and scaled hybrid concierge programs that sit alongside traditional panels, strengthening physician retention and creating new revenue streams that reduce reliance on subsidies.
Worth watching for primary care leaders, CMOs and operations executives evaluating new revenue and retention models within existing structures.
4. 5 principles for evaluating AI in credentialing
AI in credentialing promises faster onboarding, lower administrative burden and accelerated time to revenue but AI doesn’t absorb liability. Healthcare organizations do, and NCQA standards still require human oversight for committee review, red-flag interpretation and final determinations. This whitepaper offers a clear framework for evaluating AI in credentialing, built on five principles drawn from real regulated workflows.
Particularly relevant for credentialing leaders, medical staff offices and operations executives evaluating AI tools in regulated workflows.
5. Inside Elizabeth Seton Children’s Center: Turning clinical surveillance data into safer pediatric long-term care
Pediatric long-term residential care demands continuous visibility across dispersed environments — especially for children moving on and off mechanical ventilation. In this webinar, Elizabeth Seton Children’s Center leaders share how they expanded ventilator beds in a home-like environment and adopted a customizable clinical surveillance platform integrating ventilator and vital-sign data into near-real-time dashboards.
A valuable watch for pediatric and post-acute leaders, respiratory services directors and clinical informatics teams.
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