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  • Wednesday, March 4, 2026
  • 7:30am - 9:00am CT
    C-suite Address and Breakfast: Forging One Future—Building Culture and Teams Through Transformational Change
  • 7:30am - 9:00am CT
    Hot Topic: Scenes From the Future—Emerging Healthcare Trends 
  • 7:30am - 9:00am CT
    Thomas C. Dolan Address and Breakfast: Beyond the Four Walls: Advancing Social and Community Health for Older Adults
  • 8:45am - 10:15am CT
    Richard J. Stull Student Essay Competition in Healthcare Management: Finalists’ Presentations
  • 9:30am - 10:30am CT
    A Scalable Leadership Development Model for Advanced Practice Providers
  • 9:30am - 10:30am CT
    Building an Ambulatory Strategy That Elevates Access, Experience and Growth
  • 9:30am - 10:30am CT
    C-suite Exclusive Session With Amy Webb
  • 9:30am - 10:30am CT
    Enhance Margins and Prevent Closures With Enterprise Risk Management and High Reliability Organizing
  • 9:30am - 10:30am CT
    Growing the Next Generation of Leaders: A Supervisor Development Blueprint
  • 9:30am - 10:30am CT
    Growing With Purpose: Data-Informed Strategies for Health System Expansion
  • 9:30am - 10:30am CT
    Guiding Excellence: Leadership in Perioperative Care
  • 9:30am - 10:30am CT
    Leadership Insights: With Peter November, President & CEO, Ochsner Health
  • 9:30am - 10:30am CT
    Off-Site, On-Target: Growth Strategies That Meet Patients Where They Are
  • 9:30am - 10:30am CT
    The Architecture of Resilience: Designing Support Systems That Withstand Crisis
  • 10:45am - 11:45am CT
    Building Resilient and Transparent Healthcare Partnerships Through Governance
  • 10:45am - 11:45am CT
    Forum on Advances in Healthcare Leadership Research
  • 10:45am - 11:45am CT
    Integrating Community Insight and System Strategy to Build a Sustainable Freestanding Emergency Department Model
  • 10:45am - 11:45am CT
    Leveraging Your Succession Pipeline to Lead Effectively: Insights from the Department of Veterans Affairs
  • 10:45am - 11:45am CT
    Nurse Leaders Drive Social Needs Screening: A System-Level Approach
  • 10:45am - 11:45am CT
    Revolutionizing Physician Compensation: Building Sustainable, Value-Driven Models
  • 10:45am - 11:45am CT
    The Hidden Costs and Impacts of Increasing Workplace Violence
  • 10:45am - 11:45am CT
    The New Horizon for Harm Response Programs: What Every Senior Executive Should Know
  • 10:45am - 11:45am CT
    Transitioning From the Military to Civilian Healthcare
  • 12:00pm - 1:45pm CT
    Gintzig Address and Luncheon: Going for Greatness—Lessons in Perseverance and Purpose
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm CT
    Acting Like a System: Maximizing Inpatient Capacity Through Operational Integration
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm CT
    Applying Military-Grade Mission Assurance Frameworks to Hospital Cybersecurity
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm CT
    Fellow-Exclusive Session With Scott Hamilton
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm CT
    Messaging Your Hospital’s Brand Through Intentional Storytelling
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm CT
    Professional Agility and Adaptability in Today’s Healthcare leaders
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm CT
    Reimagining Acute Care Surgery: Improving Outcomes Through Robotic-Assisted Surgery Access
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm CT
    Scaling Ambulatory Leadership Using Data-Driven Span-of-Control Modeling
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm CT
    Solutions-Focused Strategies to Improve Access to Care: Successes of a Virtual-Only Specialty Care Program
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm CT
    Balancing Current Operations Needs With Emerging Transformational Technologies
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm CT
    Electrifying the Future: Lessons From Three Health Systems on the Journey to Decarbonization
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm CT
    Evaluating Leadership Development in Healthcare: Adding Measurement Rigor to Ensure Continued Investment
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm CT
    Leveraging Technology and Innovation to Improve the Patient Journey and Access to Care
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm CT
    Modernizing Access: A Systemwide Strategy to Elevate the Patient Experience
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm CT
    Redefining the Healthcare Journey Through a Hospitality Lens
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm CT
    The Future of Healthcare Delivery: How Technology and Collaboration Are Transforming Patient Care
  • 4:30pm - 5:30pm CT
    A Leadership Approach to Improving Talent, Culture and Advancing Strategy
  • 4:30pm - 5:30pm CT
    Elevating Governance: Real-World Tools for Effective Board Leadership in Transforming Healthcare Systems
  • 4:30pm - 5:30pm CT
    From the Exam Room to the Boardroom: Unlocking the Leadership Potential of Allied Health Professionals
  • 4:30pm - 5:30pm CT
    The Missing Link in Workforce Wellness: Elevating Spiritual Care to Strategic Priority
  • 4:30pm - 5:30pm CT
    The New Leader’s Playbook: How to Lead and Belong in a New Culture
  • 4:30pm - 5:30pm CT
    Unlocking the Power of Real-Time Data
  • 4:30pm - 5:30pm CT
    Value Analysis and Quality: Maximize Patient Care While Reducing Costs
  • 5:45pm - 6:45pm CT
    Wednesday Congress Networking Reception
  • 7:00pm - 8:30pm CT
    Networking event for the Virginia ACHE Chapters: National Capital HE, Central Virginia Healthcare Executives Group, and Healthcare Administrators of Tidewater