Education Events

EMTALA Regulatory Series: Part Two

Hospitals must follow federal law, CMS regulations and interpretative guidelines for the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. This three-part series will focus on EMTALA regulations, emphasizing problematic areas of EMTALA concepts, adequacy of medical screening and on-call physician issues.

Part Two: Focus on a wide range of EMTALA issues, including: 

• Appropriate transfers
• Differences in patient transfer requirements for emergency departments, observation units and inpatient units 
• EMTALA signage 
• The adequacy of medical screening examinations 

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

Session One: Where You Are & Where You're Going

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 One
Before you can change culture, you need to see it clearly. This foundation session gives you the diagnostic tools and baseline data to build your transformation strategy.
 

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EMTALA Regulatory Series: Part Three

Hospitals must follow federal law, CMS regulations and interpretative guidelines for the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. This three-part series will focus on EMTALA regulations, emphasizing problematic areas of EMTALA concepts, adequacy of medical screening and on-call physician issues.

Part Three  - Focus is on physician involvement with the EMTALA process, including:

• How to deal with risky patient situations, such as leaving against medical advice and leaving without being seen
• On-call physician requirements 
• The quality improvement organization’s role in the EMTALA survey progress 
• When an on-call physician must appear in the emergency department 

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Seeing the Real Market: Using Claims Enhanced Intelligence to Make Better Strategy, Access, and Growth Decisions

Most strategic decisions depend on accurate assumptions about demand, competition, access barriers, and provider performance—yet internal data alone rarely tells the full story. Claims enhanced market and provider intelligence fills these gaps with a high fidelity picture of patient behavior, provider activity, and geographic opportunity. 

In this session, HSG Advisors (WHA Champion Level Corporate Member) breaks down how to use claims driven insights to quantify true market potential, identify hidden leakage, pinpoint high value growth zones, and understand provider patterns with new clarity. We focus on practical application rather than analytics theory, giving leaders a repeatable framework to connect data to service line strategy, investment decisions, and execution.
 

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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

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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