Healthcare and Community Initiatives
Live Webinar
Tuesday, February 10, 2026; 1:00pm-2:00pm ET
About this Course
Healthcare and Community Initiatives: Strategies & Best Practices
This module focuses on proven healthcare and community initiatives strategies and best practices. It addresses common barriers to implementing effective healthcare and community initiatives and provides actionable insights for overcoming these challenges.
What You Will Learn
After completing this course, participants will:
· Recognize effective healthcare and community initiatives strategies and how to apply them in their context.
· Increase awareness of relevant frameworks that support healthcare and community initiatives.
· Understand the importance of continuous improvement and evaluation in healthcare and community initiatives efforts.
Who Should Attend
- Health plans
- Health systems
- Hospitals
- Managed behavioral healthcare organizations
- Population health organizations
- Wellness organizations leveragers are the federal government, states and employers
Faculty
Vanessa Guzman, ME, MS
Mrs. Guzman is an expert in health equity and population health strategies, including patient and physician engagement techniques, clinical reporting, health IT, quality management models, and CEO at SmartRise Health. With her personal story as a Latin American woman of color and diverse credentials in engineering, science, and coaching – Vanessa brings incomparable humility, authenticity, intellectual harmony, objectivity, enthusiasm, and commitment that inspire teams, participants, and facilitators to become part of the change they want to see.
With almost 20 years of industry experience and an approach centered around person-empowerment, she works closely with individuals, health systems, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), payers, and technology and community partners to promote equitable care. Her unique approach includes closely collaborating with physicians and hospitals to implement data-driven tools, payers, clinical infrastructures, pharmaceutical companies, and community partnerships to promote wellness and improve patient health outcomes, and a
Her business model facilitates revenue and sponsorship opportunities toward, Created to Thrive, a foundation she formed to promote enrichment programs servings thousands of children, women, and homeless adults worldwide. Created to Thrive allows her true mission, coaching, and transformation experience to shine through her advisory, products, and services.
Sybill Hodgson
Stephen Rosenthal
Continuing Education

In support of improving patient care, the National Committee for Quality Assurance is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide Interprofessional Continuing Education for the healthcare team.
This educational activity is approved for: 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM.
This educational activity is approved for 1.0 nursing contact hours.*
This course grants 2.0 Required Continuing Education Unit (CEU) points for PCMH Certified Content Experts.  
* Please note – You must attend the entire program to be eligible for total number of contact hours.
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) endorses the Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education which specify that sponsors of continuing medical education activities and presenters at and planners for these activities disclose any relevant financial relationships either party might have with commercial companies whose products or services are discussed in educational presentations.
For sponsors, relevant financial relationships include large research grants, institutional agreements for joint initiatives, substantial gifts, or other relationships that benefit the institution. For presenters or planning committee members, relevant financial relationships include the receipt of research grants from a commercial company, consultancies, honoraria, travel, or other benefits, or having a self-managed equity interest in a company; or having an immediate family member or partner with such a relationship.
Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.
Relevant financial relationships exist with the following companies/organizations:
Faculty:
Vanessa Guzman: None
Sybil Hodgson:
Stephen Rosenthal:
Additional Planning Committee Members:
Crissy Crittenden: None
Maris Harmon:
Felicia Khaalid: None
Rutti Harmon:
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