Plainly, what this is
- What it is
- A free, ongoing virtual summit on innovation in rural and Tribal healthcare. Three 90-minute sessions this fall.
- What it covers
- What's new and what's working: care models, technology, workforce, pharmacy, plus the funding and federal programs behind them.
- Who it's for
- Rural hospitals and clinics, and Tribal health organizations. Two tracks, one conversation.
- Why come
- 90 minutes at a time to see what your peers have already made work, and to stop solving it alone.
Dates
An ongoing series. Three sessions.
This isn't a one-off. The three sessions run in sequence, each one building on the last. Every session still stands on its own, so attend one or follow the whole thread from October through December. Same time, same format, new ground each time.
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Session 01
Wed, October 142026
Series opener. What's new, what's working, and where the $50B is actually landing.
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Session 02
Tue, November 242026
Deeper into implementation: what peers have stood up since October, and what it took.
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Session 03
Tue, December 152026
Closing the year: what held up, what didn't, and what's queued for next year.
Can't make one live? Register anyway. Every session is recorded and sent to everyone who signed up. Register free →
Why we're doing this
Two things are happening at once
The Rural Health Transformation Program is moving through the states right now, on terms most organizations are still working out. Tribal health has its own set of programs running alongside it.
Virtual care that stuck, AI taking documentation off clinicians, pharmacy models funding services, workforce pipelines built from the community out. It's working somewhere, usually quietly.
The problem isn't a shortage of good ideas. It's that the people who solved something rarely get to tell the people facing the same thing next year. So every organization pays to learn the same lesson separately.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. African proverb, and the premise of this summit
That's the whole point of 90 minutes: get what's working into the open, name the funding that makes it possible, and connect the people doing it. No surface-level panels, just what you did, what it cost, and what you'd do differently.
What you'll walk away with
- Working examples you can copy, from organizations your size
- A clear read on the funding and programs you qualify for
- What peers tried that didn't work, and why
- Direct contacts across rural and Tribal health
- The recording, to share with your board or team
- 90 minutes spent, not two days of travel
Two tracks. Pick yours.
Rural and Tribal health share most of the same pressures and almost none of the same rules. Choose a track to see what gets covered.
What's working right now
Innovation already running in rural facilities: who did it, what it took, what it returned.
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AI and automation that actually stuck
Ambient documentation, revenue cycle, and prior auth, where small hospitals are seeing real hours back, and where the pilots quietly died.
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Virtual care beyond the pandemic bump
Tele-specialty, virtual nursing, and remote monitoring models that survived once the emergency funding stopped.
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Solving the workforce problem locally
Growing clinicians from inside the community, retention that beats travel-staff economics, and shared staffing across facilities.
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Pharmacy as a growth engine
How rural pharmacy programs are funding services rather than just filling scripts.
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New service and facility models
Hospital-at-home, REH conversion, and shared services between neighboring facilities, with the honest math on each.
The funding behind it
Kept specific and short: the programs actually worth your time.
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Rural Health Transformation Program
The $50B program: how it reaches states, what states are doing with it, and how facilities position for it.
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340B Drug Pricing Program
Eligibility for Critical Access Hospitals, Sole Community Hospitals, and Rural Referral Centers, and how to protect the savings.
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The rest, briefly
Flex, SHIP, USDA Community Facilities, and FCC connectivity support: what each is for, so you know which to chase.
What's working right now
Innovation coming out of Tribal health organizations, much of it ahead of the rest of the country.
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Community-centered care models
Programs built around the community rather than retrofitted to it, and why their outcomes keep outperforming.
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Sovereignty as an operating model
What taking over programs through self-governance actually changes about service design, hiring, and speed.
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Reaching remote communities
Telehealth, community health representatives, and mobile care where distance is the primary barrier.
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Pharmacy reinvested into services
How Tribal pharmacy programs are turning savings into clinical capacity the community can feel.
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Workforce grown from the community
Pipelines that recruit, train, and keep people in the nation rather than losing them to bigger systems.
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Technology, data, and sovereignty together
Adopting AI and modern data systems without giving up control of the data itself.
The funding behind it
The authorities that fund the work, and the one everyone's watching.
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340B Drug Pricing Program
How IHS, Tribal, and Urban Indian organizations qualify, and what the savings can be turned into.
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Self-governance: ISDEAA compacts and contracts
Title I and Title V: what compacting requires, and what it gives back in control and flexibility.
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Contract Support Costs and 100% FMAP
The two places Tribal programs most often leave money on the table, and how to fix that.
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Rural Health Transformation Program
Where Tribal organizations fit in state plans for the $50B program, and how to get to that table.
Impact Unfiltered Format
Think Tank Session
Facilitated by Philippe Pucheu & Stuart Gilly
Both tracks come back together for
- Real scenarios from rural and Tribal health organizations
- Open discussion on practical, implementable next steps
- Identifying partnership opportunities across regions
- Finding the people who have already done what you're planning
Participate
Join as a panelist, not just an attendee
Panelists co-host the conversation. You bring the questions your own organization is actually wrestling with, and you help answer the ones others bring.
If you've built something that worked, or you're in the middle of building it right now, your experience is the content. That's the whole format.
What a panelist does
- Sits as a co-host on one segment
- Asks the questions your organization needs answered
- Shares what has and hasn't worked in your program
- Gets connected to peers working the same problem
Who's behind this
The Impact Unfiltered team
Impact Unfiltered is a podcast about healthcare told without the polish: unfiltered conversations with the leaders, clinicians, and builders reshaping care.
Across more than 30 episodes we've sat with health system executives, policymakers, innovators, and Tribal leaders. The same thing keeps happening: someone describes a fix that works, and you realize a dozen other organizations needed to hear it a year ago.
Our mission is simple: make what actually works in healthcare visible, and connect the people doing it. This summit is that mission with the audience in the room instead of listening later.
Philippe Pucheu Co-host & facilitator
Stuart Gilly Co-host & facilitator
30+episodes of unfiltered conversations on healthcare, published to date
Real conversations. True impact. That's been the standard for every episode, and it's the standard for this summit.
Listen to the podcast →- Dates
- Oct 14 · Nov 24 · Dec 15
- Time
- 9:00 AM, each session
- Duration
- 90 minutes + recording
- Format
- Online, live
- Tracks
- Rural & Tribal
- Cost
- Free to attend
90 minutes at a time. What's working, from the people it worked for.
Registration is free and covers all three sessions. We'll send the link before each one, and the recording after.