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Leadership Dialogue Series: The Importance of Advocacy and Storytelling in Rural Health
In this Leadership Dialogue conversation, Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health and 2025 AHA board chair, talks with Lori Wightman, R.N., CEO of Bothwell Regional Health Center, about the challenges that rural hospitals and health systems face.
Rural Health Care Leadership Conference | AHA
Annual Conference
Join rural health care leaders from across the nation at the AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Get information on how to reach your rural health care target as a sponsor of the AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference.
Contact Your Lawmakers and Urge Them to Extend Key Health Care Policies Set to Expire Next Month
Please ask your senators and representatives to prevent Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payment cuts from taking effect; extend enhanced low-volume adjustment and Medicare-dependent hospital programs that expand access to care in rural areas; and extend telehealth and hospital-at-home waivers.
Data-Driven Initiative Drives Down Disparities in Rural Health Care
Identifying the underlying factors that contribute to disparities in outcomes in vulnerable rural populations and developing strategies to address these issues remain constant challenges, but progress is being made. OSF Healthcare’s Health Equities Action Lab (HEAL) is employing a data-driven strategy to address breast cancer disparity outcomes among its Illinois patients, 65% of whom live in rural areas.
Study finds social factors explain poorer cardiovascular health in rural areas
A study published March 31 by the Nationa
Plenary Sessions
Education & Events
Find more information on the Plenary Speakers at the AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference.
Speaking Opportunities
Education & Events
We will begin the design process this spring and would be pleased to consider your speaking proposal. We are especially interested in presentations that feature rural hospital executives, physicians and trustees as presenters.
Governance Programming
Education & Events
Sessions for trustees focus on the information and skills that will help move a rural hospital board from good governance to great governance.