Annual Events
America’s Essential Hospitals is the nation’s leading source of education tailored to mission-driven hospitals. Our annual conference, VITAL, and policy-focused events, Policy Assembly and Medicaid Summit, target content to leaders and caregivers at hospitals that provide safety net care.
VITAL2025
Gain valuable insights, learn best practices, and share strategies with your peers to shape the future of health care. Discover breakthroughs and innovations in patient experience, health equity, hospital financing, behavioral and population health, and more. Save the dates: June 11 – 13, 2025, in Atlanta.
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Federal Advocacy Assembly
Essential hospital leaders joined their peers in Washington, D.C., Feb. 24 – 25, for the Federal Advocacy Assembly to amplify the voice of essential hospitals.
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Medicaid Summit
Medicaid Summit, our annual, one-day deep dive into Medicaid policy and finance, featured unparalleled insights and guidance from national experts and Washington policymakers.
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America’s Essential Hospitals is a special place in which organizations across the county have a common vision for the future. It feels like a home of sorts.
Mini Swift, MD, MPH | Vice President, Population Health, Alameda Health System
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Sponsor an Event
Our members look for solutions like yours. Put those solutions front and center through exclusive sponsorship opportunities throughout the year to build relationships with key decisionmakers. As a sponsor, you will:
- Receive high-impact recognition among members for supporting an event.
- Participate in premier industry education for health system leaders.
- Engage decision-makers to present your products and services as solutions.
- Highlight your alignment with our members’ mission-focused work.
We benefit greatly…when we have been able to present as well as when we’re in the audience, and we can compare our initiatives at our organization to individual hospitals and what’s working in their communities because we do share a common goal, and that is working to improve health care outcomes, particularly of the underserved population.
Joseph Webb, MSHA | CEO, Nashville General Hospital
It was uplifting to connect physically and ideologically with hospital leaders who are in the same boat — meaning that we are kindred spirits who share the realities of navigating turbulent health care waters, with limited resources, all while drawing upon innovative, inspired, and strategic actions to attain success. I left the conference feeling even more energized and optimistic about the potential for essential hospitals to thrive.
Latoya Jackson | Director, Quality Improvement, NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County