Schedule

Insights from Essential Hospital Leaders

VITAL2026 convenes health care experts to stimulate thinking, inspire action, and energize essential hospital leaders. Our learning sessions, focusing on access, growth, and success in the evolving health care landscape, are the foundation of the VITAL2026 conference. 

VITAL2026 is primarily composed of general sessions and concurrent breakout sessions.  

Concurrent breakout sessions last either 30 or 60 minutes with no preregistration required. Led by your peers, these sessions showcase practical, innovative solutions from essential hospitals. Each session ends with time for audience questions.  

Slides will be available in the conference app one week before the conference, allowing you to preview sessions and choose which ones to attend. 

Full Session Descriptions

Wednesday, June 10

Registration Open

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Denmark Commons, 3rd Floor

Quiet Room Open

11:00 AM – 6:30 PM

Fjords 1, 2nd Floor

Networking Nook Open

11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

New Sweden 2, 2nd Floor

Cardiac Lunch: Bridging the Gap with Cardiac Rehabilitation Access for All

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Bergen 1 – 2, 2nd Floor

Managed Care and Payer–Provider Relations: Member Perspectives and Current Challenges

1:15 PM – 2:00 PM

Fjords 4, 2nd Floor

First-Time Attendee Mixer

1:15 PM – 2:00 PM

New Sweden Foyer, 2nd Floor

Networking Break

1:15 PM – 2:00 PM

Denmark Commons, 3rd Floor

Opening General Session: Unlocking the Potential of AI in Essential Hospitals

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Scandinavian Ballroom, 3rd Floor

Advancing Community Health: AI-Driven Predictive Transformation of Clinical and Public Health Data into Actionable Insights

3:45 PM – 4:15 PM

New Sweden 1, 2nd Floor

Bridging Health Care Digital Divides with Digital Health Navigators

3:45 PM – 4:15 PM

Fjords 2, 2nd Floor

Hospital Advocacy: Everyone at the Table

3:45 PM – 4:15 PM

Fjords 3, 2nd Floor

Medicaid Community Engagement Requirements: Lessons from Nebraska’s Early Implementation

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Fjords 3, 2nd Floor

Renewing Medical Staff Peer Review: Embracing Culture Change and a Growth Mindset

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM

New Sweden 1, 2nd Floor

Development and Implementation of an AI-Enabled Workflow in a Safety Net Health System: Lung Cancer as a Use Case

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Fjords 2, 2nd Floor

Leveraging Managed Care Protocols and Clinical Analytics to Understand and Manage the Cost of the Uninsured

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM

New Sweden 3, 2nd Floor

Opening Reception and Poster Session

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Denmark Commons, 3rd Floor

PAC Donor Appreciation Event (by invitation only)

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Vikings Stadium

Thursday, June 11

Networking Nook Open

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

New Sweden 2, 2nd Floor

Quiet Room Open

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Fjords 1, 2nd Floor

Registration Open

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Denmark Commons, 3rd Floor

Networking Breakfast

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Denmark Commons, 3rd Floor

General Session: Leading Through Uncertainty

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Scandinavian Ballroom, 3rd Floor

Networking Break

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Denmark Commons, 3rd Floor

AI-Driven Eligibility Optimization: Addressing Charity Care through a Virtual Agent

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Fjords 2, 2nd Floor

Integrating Community Insight into Health System Strategy: The Central Health Policy Council Model

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

New Sweden 3, 2nd Floor

Leveraging Hospital–Community Partnerships to Improve Opioid Recovery and Population Health in South Texas

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

New Sweden 1, 2nd Floor

Foundations of Essential Hospital Financing

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Fjords 3, 2nd Floor

Networking Break

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

TBD

Finding the Gaps: Strengthening Maternal Health Programs with Neighborhood Data

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Fjords 3, 2nd Floor

Cardiac Equity Through Bilingual Support Group

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

New Sweden 3, 2nd Floor

The Most Dangerous Gap in Health Care Isn’t Always Clinical – Bridging Governance with Data Driven Operations to Improve Patient Outcomes

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Fjords 2, 2nd Floor

Gage Awards Lunch

12:45 PM – 2:00 PM

Scandinavian Ballroom, 3rd Floor

340B Interest Group Meeting

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Fjords 4, 2nd Floor

Ideas Exchange

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Norway 1 Foyer, 3rd Floor

Strengthening Payer–Provider Relations: Practical Actions Health Systems Can Take Now

3:15 PM – 3:45 PM

Fjords 3, 2nd Floor

Hospital-Owned Mobile Integrated Health: Congestive Heart Failure Quality Improvement Project

3:15 PM – 3:45 PM

Fjords 2, 2nd Floor

Building Coordinated Care Hubs to Transform Behavioral Health Outcomes: A Model for Whole-Person Health

3:15 PM – 3:45 PM

New Sweden 3, 2nd Floor

Employee Prediabetes Screening, Engagement, and Weight Loss in Virtual Synchronous Diabetes Prevention Program

3:15 PM – 3:45 PM

New Sweden 1, 2nd Floor

HealthTech Experience

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Finland, 2nd Floor

Recharge Hour

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

TBD

Sunset Social

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Winter Lounge, Dayton's Rooftop

Friday, June 12

VITAL Run Club

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Meet in Hotel Lobby

Quiet Room Open

8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Fjords 1, 2nd Floor

Networking Nook Open

8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

New Sweden 2, 2nd Floor

The Safety Net Pulse Live Recording

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Scandinavian Ballroom, 3rd Floor

Registration Open

8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Denmark Commons, 3rd Floor

Networking Breakfast

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

Denmark Commons, 3rd Floor

Legislative and Policy Update

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Scandinavian Ballroom, 3rd Floor

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