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2026 ANNUAL PRIMARY CARE CONFERENCE
The 2026 CHAMPS/NWRPCA Annual Primary Care Conference will take place from October 24-27, 2026 in Salt Lake City, UT. More information will be available in the spring of 2026.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 2025 ANNUAL PRIMARY CARE CONFERENCE
CHAMPS and Northwest Regional Primary Care Association (NWRPCA) welcomed over 300 members, partners, presenters, and exhibitors from across Region 18 (Regions VIII and X) and the nation at the Annual Primary Care Conference held October 25-28, 2025 at the Spokane Convention Center in Spokane, WA. Participants enjoyed formal and informal networking and educational sessions with clinicians, board members, and administrative staff from health centers, Primary Care Associations, and related organizations in Region VIII (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) and Region X (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington), and beyond.
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Plenary Sessions
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The Opening Plenary on Saturday evening featured presentations by Amanda Pears Kelly, Chief Executive Officer of Association of Clinicians for the Underserved, and Richard Harris, Fractional Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer. Amanda outlined the current national policy landscape as well as the challenges and opportunities facing health centers today. Richard followed with an examination of the rapidly evolving technology environment and the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in healthcare.
During the Lunch Plenary on Monday afternoon, conference attendees heard from National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) leaders, who provided updates about the current policy and healthcare environment. Speakers included Diana Erani, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at NACHC, and Nick Widmyer, NACHC’s Director of Federal Affairs.
On the final day of the conference, Amanda Laramie, Chief Operating Officer of Coleman Associates, spoke about the foundation and future of health centers during the Closing Plenary. She shared insights into the key trends and challenges shaping the future of health centers and outlined the core pillars that position them for long-term sustainability.
EDUCATIONAL & NETWORKING SESSIONS
The conference offered attendees a broad range of educational and networking sessions organized around the following tracks: Clinical, Finance, Governance, Healthy Communities, Hot Topics, HR/Workforce, Leadership, and Operations. One Networking for Innovation event, two receptions, three plenaries, six roundtable events, and 46 educational sessions provided attendees with rich opportunities to learn from clinicians, administrators, and board members in Regions VIII and X and other regional and national consultants and partners. Continuing Education credit hours were offered for physicians, accountants, human resources professionals, social workers, and board members.
The conference featured diverse tracks of educational sessions, including:
Two days of energizing Clinical sessions:
- A Way Out of Chaos, Foundation for Success: Risk Stratification & Empanelment Done Right
- Implementing an Integrated SBIRT-Suicide Care Workflow in Primary Care
- Improving Blood Pressure Control: The Heart of a Champion
- Perinatal Wellness & Health Promotion Interventions for Healthcare Professionals
- Revolutionizing Cervical Cancer Screening: Launching Self-Swab HPV Testing to Advance Access
- ‘Right-Sizing’ Continuous Improvement in Community Health: Lessons from Mosaic Community Health
- The GLP-1 Phenomenon: Weighing the Hype & Hurdles
- Wearing Two Coats: Thriving as Both Clinician & Leader
Two days of educational Finance sessions:
- Lessons from Site Visits to Support Financial & Operational Improvement
- Mastering Financial Stability: Break-Even Analysis & Forecasting for FQHCs
- Planning for the Day the Systems Go Down: Cyber Resilience for Community Health Centers
- Strategic IT Budgeting: Aligning CHC Investments with Mission & Growth
- Strengthening Revenue Cycle: Practical Training for Billing Staff
- Successful Implementation of Value-Based Care: Finance & Operations
Two days of Governance sessions:
- CHC 101: Introduction to Community Health Centers
- Elevate Your Governance & Leadership Game with Effective Evaluation Strategies
- Getting It Right: Health Center Board Compliance
- Navigating Legal Challenges: Health Center Responses to Federal Executive Orders, Directives, & Shifting Priorities
- Sound Governance in Uncertain Times: Lessons from the CEO, Board Chair, & Legal Counsel
- The Art of Adaptive Strategy: Planning for Success in Times of Uncertainty
Two days of enlightening Healthy Communities sessions:
- Addressing Social Needs Through the Lens of Vital Conditions: Spotlight on CHC’s Role in Advancing Humane Housing
- Community Care Hubs: Supporting Workforce Development in Community Based Care Management
- Development of Accessible Health Education & Screening Models for Target Populations at CHAS Health
- Innovative Use of Social Needs Screening to Address Patients’ Unmet Needs at CHAS Health
- Ready or Not, Here They Come! Attracting, Activating, & Retaining the Growing Medicare Population
- Threading a Lifeline: Opportunities to Support Health Center Integration & Carceral Settings
Four relevant Hot Topics sessions:
- Immigration & Healthcare Policy Changes & the Impact on the Community
- Navigating the Financial, Operational, & Compliance Impact of the Inflation Reduction Act & the 340B Rebate Model Pilot
- The Current State of Public Health: What Community Health Centers Need to Know
- What Events in DC Mean for Your CHC
Two days of transformative HR/Workforce sessions:
- Bridging the Gap: HP-ET Programs That Work
- From Concept to Action: An Engaging Tabletop Exercise on Workplace Violence Strategy
- Giving Feedback Constructively: Feedback That Fuels Growth
- Start Strong, Stay Longer: Onboarding for Connection, Culture, & Retention
- Strengthening Clinical Outcomes & Provider Retention Through Specialty Consults, Provider Mentorship, & Clinical Education
- Workforce Ready: Develop Talent from Within by Growing Your Own Workforce/Organizational Development Program
One day of instructive Leadership sessions:
- Artificial Intelligence Beyond EMR: Leveraging AI for Operational Excellence
- Clarifying the Chaos with Strategic Scenario Planning
- Leadership Development That Delivers: Mosaic’s Blueprint for Real Culture Change
- Saving Lives & Doing Dishes: The Radical Recovery of Enoughness
Two days of essential Operations sessions:
- Care Management Services in the FQHC: Turning Potential into Payment
- From Challenge to Clarity: Leveraging Data to Strengthen Access & Efficiency Across Community Health Clinics
- From Low-Barrier MOUD Care to a Health Engagement Hub: HealthPoint’s Opioid Treatment Journey
- Future-Proof Your Health Center: AI Risks & Opportunities
- How One Health Center Saved Another Through a Successful Acquisition: Lessons Learned from Bringing Two Systems Together
- The Front Office as Financial Bedrock: Maximizing Revenue Integrity Through Strong Workflows & Enrollment Practices
The conference also offered a variety of opportunities for attendees to connect with one another.
The Social Timeline within the conference’s virtual platform, Engagefully, facilitated networking by giving attendees a space to ask both formal questions, including those about upcoming sessions and other conference matters, as well as informal questions like recommendations for places to visit in Spokane. Many messages and connections were formed between attendees throughout the conference.
The Welcome Reception on Saturday, October 25, allowed attendees to introduce themselves to new folks and engage with friends and colleagues. The reception room was filled with conversation and laughter and was an enjoyable way to commence the conference.
The Networking for Innovation event took place on Sunday, October 26. Participants broke into small groups to engage in facilitated in-depth discussions on specific topics of interest, which included adaptive leadership, AI tools, chronic disease management, financial challenges and solutions, provider and non-provider recruitment and retention, rural health care issues, team-based care, and vital conditions for health and wellbeing.
Roundtable Lunches were held on Sunday, October 26, for Chief Executive Officers and attendees of the Clinical, Finance, Governance, HR/Workforce, and Operations tracks. These gave conference participants the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from other experts in their field.
The Networking Reception & Drawing on Monday, October 27, was one of the final events during the conference. Attendees reengaged with exhibitors and entered raffles to win prizes. The reception and raffle were seen as a celebration of the conference’s success before the final day of educational sessions.
SESSION & EVENT RECORDINGS & HANDOUTS
All 2025 NWRPCA/CHAMPS Fall Primary Care Conference materials related to sessions, including any available handouts, video recordings, etc., are available in NWRPCA’s Learning Vault. Contact the NWRPCA Registration Team at registration@nwrpca.org if you have any difficulties.
The Annual Conference is more than educational sessions and plenary speeches! Participants had formal and informal ways to learn about resources, win prizes, and inspire one another via the Engagefully platform, in-person meetings, and networking events. Engagefully was the central hub for attendees as it provided the agenda, speaker information and handouts, a community networking section, and much more.
Several Sponsored Sessions took place throughout the conference. The first, held on Saturday, October 25, was titled Get Straight to the Source of Hypophosphatasia and was hosted by Alexion. Attendees learned about the genetics and pathophysiology of hypophosphatasia, practical screening strategies, and more. The second session, hosted by GlaxoSmithKline, focused on Increasing Access and Immunization Rates for Adult Immunization and took place on Sunday, October 26. During the final Sponsored Session on Monday, October 27, attendees had the opportunity to hear from Sanofi in a session titled Setting a Standard in RSV Protection: A Long-Acting Monoclonal Antibody to Help Protect Infants Against RSV-LTRI.
Finally, on Tuesday, October 28, several attendees took part in the health center tour. Participants had the opportunity to visit the Community Health Association of Spokane’s (CHAS Health) Maple Street Clinic and its Learning Institute and enjoyed some sightseeing around Spokane along the way. Thank you to CHAS Health for hosting the tour!
A photo journal for the 2025 NWRPCA/CHAMPS Annual Primary Care Conference will be available soon.
The NWRPCA/CHAMPS Annual Primary Care Conference is a source of continuing education units (CEUs) and helps to support health center staff and board members advance professionally. Continuing Medical Education (CME), Continuing Professional Education (CPE), Human Resources (HR), and National Association of Social Workers (NASW) credits will be applied for. Continuing Nursing Credits (CNE) are not available this year, but nurses are encouraged to request CME. Please contact the CHAMPS Clinical Quality Improvement Director for questions related to CEUs.
2025 NWRPCA/CHAMPS Annual Primary Care Conference Registration Reimbursement is available to CHAMPS Organizational Member Community Health Centers (CHCs) in good standing as of October 24, 2025. Each CHAMPS Organizational Member CHC is eligible for reimbursement for a single registration fee (total value up to $1,125).
CHC staff who qualify for registration reimbursement include line staff, medical support staff, and mid-level managers and supervisors as well as CHC board members. Providers and Executive Directors/CEOs are not eligible for reimbursement. The registration reimbursement request form must be submitted by December 15, 2025. Only one form per member organization will be approved.
Download the 2025 Registration Reimbursement Request Form.
Region VIII clinicians are able to apply for 2025 NWRPCA/CHAMPS Annual Primary Care Conference Clinical Travel Support Reimbursement. Those eligible include clinicians working 0.50 FTE or greater as providers (medical, behavioral, or dental) in a CHAMPS Organizational Member CHC in good standing as of October 24, 2025 or a member of the Mountain/Plains Clinical Network (MPCN) Steering Committee. MPCN Steering Committee members may gain an additional $100 reimbursement with participation on the committee prior to the Fall Conference and attendance at the Fall Conference Steering Committee Meeting.
The maximum value available for travel assistance is $700, or $800 for members of the MPCN Steering Committee. Clinical travel support reimbursement request forms must be submitted by December 15, 2025, and include all original receipts and a mileage map (if applicable) for the payment to be accepted.
Download the 2025 Clinical Travel Support Reimbursement Request Form.
CHAMPS AWARDS
Each year, CHAMPS presents awards to staff and board members of Region VIII Health Centers and related organizations to recognize exceptional contributions to the health center community. Over the years, this process has allowed CHAMPS to honor numerous highly deserving individuals from across the region for their outstanding advocacy, leadership, and dedication to the health center mission. Please visit the CHAMPS Awards webpage for more information about each year’s Call for Nominations and Awards Ceremony, details about the most current CHAMPS Awardees, and lists of awardees from prior years.
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