RHTP Impacts
Learning collaborative webinar series
Overview
RHTP Impacts is a new interactive webinar series convening partners from across Alaska to collaborate within six RHTP initiatives:
- Healthy Beginnings
- Health Care Access
- Healthy Communities
- Pay for Value: Fiscal Sustainability
- Strengthen Workforce
- Spark Technology and Innovation
These sessions are designed to spark dialogue, strengthen partnerships, and build momentum for meaningful, lasting improvements in Alaska’s health system.
Registration for upcoming sessions and recordings of all sessions will be posted on this page as they become available.
Sign up for RHTP updatesWebinar Sessions
RHTP Impacts includes six separate webinar series: one for each RHTP initiative. Each series spans six sessions, bringing stakeholders together to share ideas, learn from real-world examples in Alaska and beyond, and collaboratively tackle challenges and design practical solutions.
Sessions are structured to build over time, beginning with shared vision-setting, followed by focused discussions on priority challenges, partnerships, and potential projects, and concluding with key takeaways and next steps.
Learning Collaborative Webinar Series
Healthy Beginnings
Healthy Beginnings
About the Series
The Healthy Beginnings RHTP Impact Series will convene stakeholders statewide, bringing together partners focused on strengthening maternal and child health as the foundation for healthy families.
The series will create opportunities for dialogue and collaboration, encouraging thoughtful exploration of new approaches. Participants will highlight examples of approaches that have driven real change in Alaska and elsewhere and establish a shared vision and baseline for transformation.
Session 1 Kickoff (3/24/2026)
Recording of Healthy Beginnings Session #1
Health Care Access
Health Care Access
About the Series
The Health Care Access RHTP Impacts Series will convene partners statewide to focus on expanding and sustaining essential health services across Alaska’s rural communities.
The series will create opportunities for dialogue and collaboration, uplifting new approaches to improving access, care coordination, and service sustainability. Participants will highlight models that have driven real change in Alaska and beyond and establish a shared vision and baseline for long-term transformation.
Session 1 Kickoff (3/31/2026)
Recording of Health Care Access Kickoff Session Recap of Health Care Access Kickoff Session
Healthy Communities
Healthy Communities
About the Series
The Healthy Communities RHTP Impacts series will bring together stakeholders statewide to focus on expanding preventive and primary care access, community health tools, and early chronic disease management. The series is designed to create opportunities for dialogue and collaboration, enabling partners to explore culturally appropriate and community-driven strategies. Participants will highlight examples of approaches that have generated meaningful impact in Alaska and establish a vision and baseline for long-term community health transformation.
Kickoff Session - March 23, 2026
Recording of Healthy Communities Kickoff Session Recap of Healthy Communities Kickoff Session
Pay for Value: Fiscal Sustainability
Pay for Value: Fiscal Sustainability
About the Series
The Pay for Value: Fiscal Sustainability RHTP Impacts Series will convene stakeholders statewide to explore innovative care and payment models that strengthen the long-term financial stability of rural providers.
The series will create opportunities for dialogue and collaboration, encouraging partners to examine new approaches to value-based care and coordinated delivery systems. Participants will highlight approaches that have driven real change and establish a shared vision and baseline for fiscal transformation.
Session 1 Kickoff (4/1/2026)
Recording of Pay for Value: Fiscal Sustainability Kickoff Session Recap of Pay for Value: Fiscal Sustainability Kickoff Session
Strengthen Workforce
Strengthen Workforce
About the Series
The Strengthen Workforce RHTP Impact Series will bring together stakeholders statewide to advance strategies that strengthen Alaska’s rural health care workforce—including pipeline development, recruitment, training, retention, and supportive services such as housing and childcare.
The series will create opportunities for dialogue and collaboration, fostering exploration of new workforce approaches. Participants will highlight successful workforce models from Alaska and beyond and establish a shared vision and baseline for long-term workforce transformation.
Session 1 Kickoff (3/24/2026)
Recording of Strengthen Workforce Kickoff Session Recap of Strengthen Workforce Kickoff Webinar
Spark Technology and Innovation
Spark Technology and Innovation
About the Series
The Spark Technology & Innovation — RHTP Impact Series will convene stakeholders statewide to explore opportunities to harness data, telehealth, consumer digital tools, AI, cybersecurity, interoperability, and emerging technologies to strengthen rural care delivery.
The series will create opportunities for dialogue and collaboration, encouraging thoughtful exploration of innovative, tech-enabled approaches. Participants will highlight examples of successful technology and innovation models and establish a shared vision and baseline for transformation.
Session 1 Kickoff (3/24/2026)
Recording of Spark Technology and Innovation Kickoff Session Recap of Spark Technology and Innovation Kickoff Session
Resources
Related Education
This project is supported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $272,174,855.72, pending approval of revised budget, with 100 percent funded by CMS/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CMS/HHS, or the U.S. Government.