Thank you for registering for the 2025 Alabama Rural Health Conference. All presentations will be housed on this site for access. Please see below for more information.
Program Booklet
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Photos
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CEU Information
AL Statewide AHEC Program is an approved provider of continuing hours for nurses by the AL Board of Nursing (Provider ABNP1584 Expiration Date 6/14/2028) and has awarded the below session the following contact hours for the Alabama Rural Health Association Conference, April 3-4, 2025
- Rural Healthcare Reimagined: Collaborating for Impact, 1.0 Contact Hour
- Opioid Use In Alabama: A Policy Perspective, 1.0 Contact Hour
- Not Enough BAND-AIDs: A Better Strategy to Overcome Technology Challenges in Rural Health, 1.0 Contact Hour
- Value-Based Care: Where to Start, Where We’re going and the WHY, 1.0 Contact Hour

Presentations
- Rural Healthcare Reimagined: Collaborating for Impact – Lisa Stanley
- Opioid Use in Alabama: A Policy Perspective – Sarah Khan
- Securing Funds, Securing Health: Our Rural Health Expansion Journey – Hollie C. Cost, Ph.D.
- Collaborating for Mental Health Equity: Legislative and Policy Solutions for Rural Communities – Ashley Norwood-Strickland, Ph.D., MSCP
- Lowering the Cost of Capital Project Financing Through USDA and New Markets Tax Credits – Steve Nosacka
- Crafting Solutions and Community Building with the West Alabama Maternity Care Coalition – Holly Horan, Ph.D.
- Medicare Advantage Value-Based Contracting – Bruce Shephard
- A Student Run Free Clinic’s Approach to Providing Multidisciplinary Health Education and Health Resource Access to a Rural Native American Community – Caroline W. Howell
- Value-Based Care: Where to Start, Where We’re Going, and the “WHY” – Kate Hill
- Not Enough BAND-AIDs: A Better Strategy to Overcome Technology Challenges in Rural Health – Mike Ozburn
