Location: Virtual

The goal of this webinar is to provide hospitals with information surrounding the Illinois Drug Overdose Prevention Program (DOPP), a resource designed by the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) to provide free take home naloxone kits to at-risk individuals. Naloxone is a safe and effective medication used to reverse opioid overdoses and save lives. Providing naloxone kits directly to patients with opioid use disorder who are at risk of a fatal overdose is a crucial step in harm reduction and preventing overdose deaths.  

This informational session will outline recent updates to the DOPP that have resulted in a streamlined and simplified hospital enrollment, ordering and reporting process. Guidance for how hospitals can successfully implement a take home naloxone program within their emergency departments and inpatient units will also be provided.

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Location: Virtual

A quality cybersecurity program is a must-have in today’s healthcare environment. Incorporating lessons learned from the experiences of healthcare organizations that have lived through a cyber-attack—and emerged stronger—can help hospitals and health systems strengthen their cyber defense. During this webinar, information technology leaders from Enloe Medical Center in California will recount their multi-year journey from a 2020 ransomware attack to achieving a world-class, sustainable cybersecurity posture in 2025. You’ll learn how strategic investments and critical enhancements drove their success, including raising their assessment score from the National Institute of Standards and Technology into the high-performer range while consistently maintaining 100% HIPAA Security Rule compliance.

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Location: Springfield, Illinois

Caring for communities and improving lives: Small and rural hospitals are the heartbeat of their communities. To support your critical work, this year’s annual meeting will focus on opportunities to strengthen community ties, address a vital need for behavioral health care, and respond to regulatory and reimbursement changes and to challenges with Medicare Advantage. You’ll benefit from sessions offering new approaches to common concerns and networking with your peers. Join us for the rural health perspective on today’s top issues.

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Location: Virtual

Social drivers of health (SDOH) impact individuals before they interact with the healthcare system and continue to affect them after receiving care. Adopting sustainable processes to screen for and address social needs can help improve patient health outcomes. This two-part webinar series will guide you in developing a screening process and present strategies to strengthen connections between healthcare systems and community-based organizations. You’ll learn how to assess whether efforts to address patients’ social needs are effective and how your efforts are impacting patients.

The first webinar, “Integrating Social Care into Your Medical Practice,” will help clinical teams build foundational processes to incorporate social care into medical care delivery.

The second webinar, “Addressing Social Needs at the Individual and Community Level,” will assist teams in moving from screening and referral to building systems for sustainable, measurable impact.

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Location: Virtual

Social drivers of health (SDOH) impact individuals before they interact with the healthcare system and continue to affect them after receiving care. Adopting sustainable processes to screen for and address social needs can help improve patient health outcomes. This two-part webinar series will guide you in developing a screening process and present strategies to strengthen connections between healthcare systems and community-based organizations. You’ll learn how to assess whether efforts to address patients’ social needs are effective and how your efforts are impacting patients.

The second webinar, “Addressing Social Needs at the Individual and Community Level,” will assist teams in moving from screening and referral to building systems for sustainable, measurable impact.

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Location: Virtual

Over the past year, EMTALA enforcement has intensified, and hospitals nationwide have faced six-figure fines for screening errors, signage omissions and transfer missteps. 

In this three-part webinar series—refreshed from our August 2024 offering—you will:

• Review core federal requirements and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) interpretive guidelines to ensure your team understands each critical step.

• Examine compliance strategies for the 2024 CMS signage update.

• Discuss the November 2024 Conditions of Participation (CoP) Emergency Services requirements related to patient transfers  — how they interact with EMTALA transfer requirements and new minimum required equipment requirements. 

• Analyze recent civil monetary penalty cases to identify areas of vulnerability in emergency department protocols.

• Consider practical compliance strategies and tools that support your ongoing compliance.

By the end of this series, your team will be up to date on regulatory changes, enforcement trends and practical considerations for strengthening emergency-department operations and maintaining EMTALA compliance.

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Location: Virtual

Over the past year, EMTALA enforcement has intensified, and hospitals nationwide have faced six-figure fines for screening errors, signage omissions and transfer missteps. 

In this three-part webinar series—refreshed from our August 2024 offering—you will:

• Review core federal requirements and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) interpretive guidelines to ensure your team understands each critical step.

• Examine compliance strategies for the 2024 CMS signage update.

• Discuss the November 2024 Conditions of Participation (CoP) Emergency Services requirements related to patient transfers  — how they interact with EMTALA transfer requirements and new minimum required equipment requirements. 

• Analyze recent civil monetary penalty cases to identify areas of vulnerability in emergency department protocols.

• Consider practical compliance strategies and tools that support your ongoing compliance.

By the end of this series, your team will be up to date on regulatory changes, enforcement trends and practical considerations for strengthening emergency-department operations and maintaining EMTALA compliance.

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Location: Virtual

Over the past year, EMTALA enforcement has intensified, and hospitals nationwide have faced six-figure fines for screening errors, signage omissions and transfer missteps. 

In this three-part webinar series—refreshed from our August 2024 offering—you will:

• Review core federal requirements and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) interpretive guidelines to ensure your team understands each critical step.

• Examine compliance strategies for the 2024 CMS signage update.

• Discuss the November 2024 Conditions of Participation (CoP) Emergency Services requirements related to patient transfers  — how they interact with EMTALA transfer requirements and new minimum required equipment requirements. 

• Analyze recent civil monetary penalty cases to identify areas of vulnerability in emergency department protocols.

• Consider practical compliance strategies and tools that support your ongoing compliance.

By the end of this series, your team will be up to date on regulatory changes, enforcement trends and practical considerations for strengthening emergency-department operations and maintaining EMTALA compliance.

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