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

TBD

Quiet Room Open

11:00 AM – 6:30 PM

TBD

Networking Nook Open

11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

TBD

Cardiac Lunch: Bridging the Gap: Cardiac Rehabilitation Access and Outcomes for All in the Community

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

TBD

First-Time Attendee Mixer

1:15 PM – 2:00 PM

TBD

Networking Break

1:15 PM – 2:00 PM

TBD

Opening General Session

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

TBD

Bridging Health Care Digital Divides with Digital Health Navigators

3:45 PM – 4:15 PM

TBD

Making Mental Health Everyone’s Business: Aligning Mental Health with Hospital Enterprise-wide Care Goals to Improve Outcomes

3:45 PM – 4:15 PM

TBD

Hospital Advocacy: Everyone at the Table

3:45 PM – 4:15 PM

TBD

Late-Breaking Session

3:45 PM – 4:15 PM

TBD

Late-Breaking Session

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM

TBD

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

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM

TBD

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

TBD

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

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM

TBD

Opening Reception and Poster Session

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

TBD

Thursday, June 11

Networking Nook Open

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

TBD

Quiet Room Open

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

TBD

Registration Open

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

TBD

Networking Breakfast

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

TBD

General Session

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM

TBD

Networking Break

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

TBD

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

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

TBD

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

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

TBD

Proving the Value: Measuring ROI in Population Health for Essential Hospitals

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

TBD

Foundations of Essential Hospital Financing

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

TBD

Networking Break

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

TBD

Reducing Social Care Gaps to Transform Health Outcomes

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

TBD

Cardiac Equity Through Bilingual Support Group

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

TBD

Late-Breaking Session

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

TBD

Closing the Governance Gap: Data‑Driven Operations for Better Patient Outcomes

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

TBD

Gage Awards Lunch

12:45 PM – 2:00 PM

TBD

Interest Groups Meetings

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

TBD

Ideas Exchange

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

TBD

Late-Breaking Session

3:15 PM – 3:45 PM

TBD

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

3:15 PM – 3:45 PM

TBD

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

3:15 PM – 3:45 PM

TBD

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

3:15 PM – 3:45 PM

TBD

HealthTech Experience

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

TBD

Recharge Hour

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

TBD

Sunset Social

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

TBD

Friday, June 12

Quiet Room Open

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

TBD

Registration Open

8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

TBD

Networking Breakfast

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

TBD

Legislative and Policy Update

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

TBD

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