OrAHQ | Ethics and Compliance of AI Use in Healthcare Settings Part III
2026-05-20 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Chicago)
This is the last webinar in a 3-part series addressing the role of Ethics and Compliance when considering the use of AI in a healthcare setting. Part III will discuss protective measures and risk mitigation strategies if choosing to use AI in your healthcare organization. Cost is free to members of the following organizations: MAHQ, OrAHQ, AZAHQ, NEAHQ, OAHQ, UAHQ, TGCAHQ, NCAHQ, FAHQ; $25 for all others.

Advancing Health Equity: Data-Driven Strategies to Reduce Disparities
2026-05-22 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for an inside look at how Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is advancing health equity through a data-driven, action-oriented approach. This session will highlight how equity is embedded into organizational strategy.
Attendees will learn how data informs our Healthcare Quality and Access efforts and drives initiatives aimed at reducing disparities in care. The session will feature a focused case study on colorectal cancer (CRC) screenings, showcasing how disparities were identified, strategies were implemented, and measurable progress was achieved.
This program is ideal for professionals interested in practical, scalable approaches to advancing health equity within healthcare systems.
Objectives:

Understand BCBSRI’s Health Equity mission and how equity principles are embedded across programs and operations
Learn the importance of self-reported RELD and SOGI data in identifying disparities and informing action
Explore how data insights translate into targeted interventions to improve quality and access
Review a real-world case study on colorectal cancer (CRC) screening disparities, including strategies, outcomes, and next steps

The Constancy Effect: How Nursing’s 24/7/365 Presence Promotes Quality and Safety
2026-06-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
In this webinar, we reframe reliability in healthcare by distinguishing nurse constancy from traditional notions of consistency and standardization. Rather than focusing on episodic policies, audits, or initiatives, this session explores how the continuous presence and attentiveness of nurses operationalize high‑reliability principles in real time—before metrics change and before harm occurs. Participants will see how nurse constancy drives measurable outcomes executives care about, including patient safety, regulatory readiness, operational efficiency, staff engagement, and financial stability. The webinar also examines the often‑invisible emotional labor required to sustain vigilance, highlighting the roles of psychological safety and leadership behaviors in preventing burnout and cultural drift. Finally, attendees will leave with practical leadership strategies to intentionally strengthen constancy across shifts and units, shifting reliability from something built during initiatives to something preserved every day between them.
Objectives:
-Differentiate nurse constancy from consistency and explain why continuous nursing presence is a critical driver of quality, safety, and high reliability performance in hospitals.
-Describe how nurse constancy operationalizes high reliability principles—including sensitivity to operations, preoccupation with failure, and deference to expertise—within day‑to‑day clinical workflows.
-Identify the impact of nurse constancy on key organizational outcomes, including patient safety events, regulatory readiness, operational efficiency, staff engagement, and financial stability.
-Recognize the role of emotional labor, psychological safety, and leadership behaviors in sustaining nurse constancy and preventing burnout, erosion of vigilance, and cultural drift.
-Apply leadership strategies to intentionally strengthen nurse constancy across shifts and units, using measurable indicators and practical examples to reinforce reliability between initiatives, surveys, and improvement efforts.

June 2026 CPHQ Prep Virtual Class
2026-06-05 15:00 - 2026-06-19 17:00 (America/Chicago)
NAHQ’s instructor led CPHQ Prep Virtual Course connects you with expert instructors in an online classroom setting and is designed to support those planning to take the Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality® (CPHQ) Certification Examination. Based on the current CPHQ content outline, this course provides a review of essential healthcare quality concepts and offers valuable tips on how to best prepare for the exam. Courses include interactive lectures, quizzing, live Q&A, and inter-session activities, all focused on building your knowledge of the CPHQ content areas and helping you get ready for the exam. Note that session recordings are not included with course materials; please plan to prioritize attendance for all sessions.
Schedule
The times shown below are in Central time. Please use this helpful time zone converter (https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com) to see when sessions will start and end for you.
June 5– course introduction and platform walk through: 3PM-5PM
June 8-12 – classroom sessions: 3PM-5PM
June 15-19 – classroom sessions: 3PM-5PM

Small-Scale Improvement Efforts and a Culture of Improvement
2026-06-09 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Turn strategy into daily action. This webinar will focus on
the strategy deployment roadmap and leadership
engagement involving small-scale improvement efforts.
Explore small deep dives, PDCA’s, Just-Do-It’s, Just-Stop-
It’s, and Improvement Huddles as methods to Continuous
Daily Improvement and creating a culture of improvement
within a microsystem. Leave with practical approaches you
can put to work immediately with your team.

Building A Culture of Continuous Readiness Across Your Organization
2026-06-10 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
Speaker:
Steve Chinn, DPM, MS, MBA, FACHE, CPHQ, CPPS, CJCP
Advizor1 LLC
In today’s fast-changing healthcare environment, ongoing compliance is more than just a regulatory requirement; it is a strategic necessity for improving quality and patient safety. This session will provide healthcare quality professionals and leaders with practical strategies to embed readiness into daily operations, ensuring every department contributes to compliance. Attendees will explore tools and communication frameworks designed to promote shared accountability and keep preparedness high between surveys. Join us to learn how to move from reactive to proactive compliance for lasting excellence and resilience in your organization, gaining practical insights to improve safety and quality outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the principles of continuous compliance and how they support organizational goals for quality and safety.
Develop proactive readiness strategies that integrate with daily operations and engage all departments, from nursing to facilities, in achieving compliance success.
Implement practical tools and communication frameworks that uphold readiness and foster cross-departmental collaboration between surveys.

HealthLocator: A Public, Digital Tool for Navigating Quality Care Choices
2026-06-24 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix)
HealthLocator aims to become the definitive, patient-centered resource for hospital performance — advancing transparency, trust, and clinical quality across the U.S. health care system. In essence, HealthLocator is a public service initiative rooted in peer-reviewed methods and designed to help patients find high-quality care while promoting accountability and improvement in health care delivery.

Survey Survival Tips in 2026 – A Dive into the Changes and How They Impact the Survey Proc
2026-07-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
This presentation will provide an overview of the new infection prevention standards (The Joint Commission) and the crosswalk with CMS conditions of participation from the perspective of a former Joint Commission Surveyor. Our speaker will discuss the implications of the infection control chapter rewrite (TJC) as it relates to the survey process and provide solutions for mitigation. A question-and-answer session will be provided.

8th Global Congress On Pediatric & Neonatal Care
2026-07-22 09:00 - 2026-07-23 17:00 (Asia/Tokyo)
We are excited to announce the 8th Global Congress on Pediatrics & Neonatal Care, taking place July 22–23, 2026, in Tokyo, Japan, and online.
Theme: “Shaping the Future of Child and Neonatal Health through Innovation and Impact”
This premier event will bring together pediatricians, neonatologists, researchers, clinicians, and healthcare professionals from across the globe to share innovations, present research, and foster collaboration in advancing pediatric and neonatal care.
Website: https://pediatricscongress.com/
Join us to connect, collaborate, and shape the future of child and neonatal healthcare worldwide!

AI-Enhanced Incident Reports: Identifying Root Causes and Tracking Trends
2026-08-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
This presentation outlines how artificial intelligence can be integrated into existing incident reporting systems to improve patient safety, reduce subjectivity, and enable proactive risk management. Using Nicklaus Children’s Health System as the case study, the presentation explains how a homegrown AI tool (“AskNick”) is integrated with RL Solutions to analyze incident reports using natural language processing. It will describe how AI can systematically review the brief factual descriptions within incident reports to generate a standardized problem list, assign parent and child categories, and identify root causes with greater consistency than traditional human review.

August 2026 CPHQ Prep Virtual Class
2026-08-07 15:00 - 2026-08-23 17:00 (America/Chicago)
NAHQ’s instructor led CPHQ Prep Virtual Course connects you with expert instructors in an online classroom setting and is designed to support those planning to take the Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality® (CPHQ) Certification Examination. Based on the current CPHQ content outline, this course provides a review of essential healthcare quality concepts and offers valuable tips on how to best prepare for the exam. Courses include interactive lectures, quizzing, live Q&A, and inter-session activities, all focused on building your knowledge of the CPHQ content areas and helping you get ready for the exam. Note that session recordings are not included with course materials; please plan to prioritize attendance for all sessions.
Schedule
The times shown below are in Central time. Please use this helpful time zone converter (https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com) to see when sessions will start and end for you.
August 7– course introduction and platform walk through: 3PM-5PM
August 10-14 – classroom sessions: 3PM-5PM
August 17-21 – classroom sessions: 3PM-5PM

Leadership Development and a Standard Work Foundation
2026-08-18 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Join the Ohio Association for Healthcare Quality (OAHQ) for
a focused presentation on practical leadership
development. Discover how the most effective healthcare
quality leaders are cultivated through active participation in
strategy deployment methods. We will explore how
empowering your team to drive continuous daily
improvement naturally builds essential leadership
capabilities.

4th Global Summit on Nursing Education and Healthcare 2026
2026-08-24 09:00 - 2026-08-25 18:00 (Asia/Tokyo)
We are cordially welcome your organization to the 4th Global Summit on Nursing Education and Healthcare 2026 will be held on August 24–25, 2026 in Tokyo, Japan, under the theme “Innovations in Nursing Education: Transforming Healthcare Worldwide.”
Hosted by Intelli Meetings, this premier event invites nurses, healthcare professionals, researchers, and academics from around the world to connect and collaborate.
With over 300 international delegates, the summit will feature keynote speeches, oral and poster presentations, and engaging panel discussions.
The program will focus on advancing nursing education, practice, and global healthcare innovation.
https://nursingeducationcongress.com/

NAHQ next 2026
2026-09-14 09:00 - 2026-09-16 13:00 (America/Chicago)
Positioning You For What’s Next
NAHQ next is the premier industry event addressing the most urgent and important issues facing healthcare today. The 2 ½ day virtual event is packed with sessions featuring visionary healthcare leaders from top-tier organizations offering innovative, real-world solutions for how Quality & Safety can be activated to solve healthcare’s greatest challenges. All content is aligned to the industry-standard Healthcare Quality Competency Framework and offers CPHQ CE*.
Registration will open in June 2026.
*The number of credits is subject to change.

Healthcare Quality Week
2026-10-18 - 2026-10-24
Healthcare Quality Week (HQW), brought to you by NAHQ, is a dedicated time to celebrate the discipline and raise awareness of the positive impact those working in healthcare quality and safety have in their organizations and communities. Quality has taken center stage and more people working in healthcare quality and safety are being called upon to do this critical work.
Save the Date

24th Global Summit on Nursing Education & Health Care scheduled to take place on October 19–20, 2026 in Tokyo, Japan
2026-10-19 09:00 - 2026-10-20 18:00 (Asia/Tokyo)
We are honored to invite you to the 24th Global Summit on Nursing Education & Health Care, scheduled to take place on October 19–20, 2026, in the vibrant city of Tokyo, Japan.
Theme:“Fostering Excellence in Nursing: Research, Education & Collaborative Practice”
Participants will have the opportunity to:s
✔ Discover innovative research and best practices in nursing education and clinical care
✔ Engage in meaningful discussions with global healthcare experts and thought leaders
✔ Share knowledge and experiences that advance patient outcomes and nursing excellence
✔ Build impactful international collaborations to strengthen healthcare systems worldwide
✔ Participate in workshops, keynote sessions and panel discussions led by distinguished speakers
Join us in Tokyo—or participate virtually—for two enriching days of learning, networking, and professional growth, dedicated to advancing the nursing profession across borders.
For more details, please visit:https://nursingeducation.inovineconferences.com
Warm regards,
Monica Blair
Program Manager
Nursing Education Summit 2026
Tokyo, Japan
WhatsApp: +1 (714) 970-4946
