Education Events

Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement Program

As a frequently cited condition-level deficiency nationwide, this online seminar is necessary for all hospitals. It will discuss the Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement Program standards for acute, critical access and rural emergency hospitals, as well as updated interpretative guidelines for the program. 

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Denials Are a Clinical Problem

A Physician Advisor Framework for Revenue Protection

The hardest denials are clinical problems with financial consequences. Medical necessity, patient status, clinical validation, and inappropriate downgrades all depend on clinical judgment, so RCM teams can't resolve them alone. Hospitals that treat denials as a back-office issue keep losing the same appeals to the same payers.

Dr. Sid Raghavan and Krishang Todi, with WHA Corporate Member Aegis Health,  will present a physician advisor framework for breaking that cycle, and show how AI is expanding what a physician advisor team can take on. Dr. Raghavan will draw on his experience building the physician advisory department at Sutter Health, and Krishang will bring lessons from deploying an AI denials management solution across hospitals and health systems.
 

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Caring for Wisconsin's Caregivers: 2026 WHA Healthcare Workforce Well-being Summit

This event brings hospital and health system leaders together for a focused day of learning, alignment, and strategic action planning centered on health workforce well being. Designed for executive and senior leaders, the summit blends national thought leadership with collaborative strategic planning to help shape a shared, statewide approach to caring for Wisconsin’s healthcare workforce.

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2026 Annual Wisconsin Organization of Nurse Leaders (WONL) Conference

Championship Mindset: Building the Nurse Leader Playbook for Winning Teams

Join nursing leader colleagues for this annual event focusing on leading and developing nurses. Throughout the conference, you will learn how leadership is changing, ways to affect that change, and principles that leaders can use to empower, energize and inspire themselves and those they lead.

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Swing-bed Fundamentals

Rural hospitals with 100 or fewer licensed beds can participate in the swing-bed program. Swing beds can be used for acute care or post-acute (skilled nursing) patients. This online seminar describes the basic Medicare regulations for participating in the swing-bed program and explains the differences between the requirements for critical access and other rural hospitals.

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WHA 2026 Wisconsin Health Care Workforce Webinar Series - Part 2: Relieve Workforce Burden

A key driver of burden faced by health care professionals and hospitals is compliance with a growing number of regulations and requirements.  Regulation is intended to ensure that patients receive safe, high-quality care.  Not all the rules improve care or safety, but all of them require time and action by our hospital and health system workforce.  When these requirements are viewed as unnecessary, confusing or overly burdensome, they threaten workforce well-being and unnecessarily hinder care and access --- it’s a workforce issue and a patient care issue.

Join WHA for an informative and interactive session where participants will learn about the impact of unnecessary regulation on the health care workforce and have an opportunity to share ways to active reduce regulatory burden on teams needed to care for patients.
 

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Culture College – Breakthrough Strategies for Creating and Sustaining a Magnetic Culture

Session Three: The Essentials of Magnetic Culture

Here's what the research tells us: culture drives everything that matters—engagement, retention, patient satisfaction, and your bottom line. Yet most healthcare organizations struggle to define what great culture actually looks like, let alone build it. This isn't another theoretical workshop. This is your practical roadmap from aspiration to action.

Over four interactive sessions, you'll assess your current reality, define your desired culture, and create a concrete plan to close the gap. You'll leave with assessment tools, a customized roadmap, and strategies that work whether you're transforming an entire health system or energizing a single unit.

Session Three: Explore the core elements of building a magnetic culture by focusing on leadership practices that engage and inspire teams and strengthen alignment through meaningful metrics.

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Substance Use Disorders Management Boot Camp

Registration is now open for the next Substance Use Disorders Management Boot Camp at the Bemis Conference Center in De Pere.

This free, two-day, in-person program is designed to help health care professionals strengthen their confidence and skills in recognizing, treating and managing substance use disorders in general medical settings.

Through interactive, case-based education, participants will explore practical approaches to opioid and alcohol use disorders, buprenorphine treatment, harm reduction, stimulant use disorder, pain management, benzodiazepine tapering, peer support and recovery, and other challenges commonly encountered in clinical practice.

The Boot Camp is designed for an interprofessional audience, including physicians, physician assistants, nurses, advanced practice nurses, pharmacists, social workers, pre-hospital providers, students, residents and fellows.

RHeSUS is a partnership between the Wisconsin Hospital Association and the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health’s Program for Research, Outreach, Therapeutics, and Education in the Addictions (PROTEA), with funding from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health Wisconsin Partnership Program.

 

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2027 WHA Health Care Leadership Academy

The health care sector has been operating through constant change for decades while navigating rapidly advancing technologies, evolving standards of care, changing patient and population demographics, cost pressures, evolving fee and reimbursement models, and complexities in the legal and regulatory environment. With significant future change on the horizon, this transformation and disruption creates a need to build resilient and capable healthcare leaders with the skills to successfully navigate the complexities and opportunities of the future of healthcare. Hospital leaders have a particular need to understand the “business of healthcare” so that they can contribute in more meaningful ways to better patient care, cost management, and effective service delivery.

In response to this need, the Wisconsin Hospital Association, in partnership with the Wisconsin School of Business Center for Professional & Executive Development (CPED), are proud to announce the 5th WHA Health Care Leadership Academy.
 

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