For rural health systems, the pressures are relentless: margins erode, workforce shortages persist and access shrinks every time a service line closes.
The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program is a once-in-a-generation chance to reverse that trajectory, but funding alone changes nothing. The systems that treat this as a capital-and-strategy problem, not a grant to spend down, will pull ahead. The rest risk using historic dollars just to hold ground, then facing the same structural strain when the money runs out.
This session shows how leaders from Avera Health and North Mississippi Health Services are moving from funding opportunity to execution, with a practical roadmap for capital deployment, virtual care and workforce redesign.
Learnings include:
• How to navigate the Rural Health Transformation Program and state-level funding strategies
• How to identify high-impact opportunities for capital deployment and care redesign
• How to implement hub-and-spoke, virtual care and workforce transformation models
• How to align rural strategy with enterprise growth, access and financial sustainability