Featured Session

Ensuring Quality and Patient Safety in a Tech-Enabled Healthcare World

Join us for a plenary session featuring Michael Howell as he explores the critical intersection of clinical care and digital innovation—and how healthcare organizations can ensure patient safety remains at the center of an increasingly connected world.

Meet the Speaker

Michael Howell, MD, MPH

Chief Health Officer

Google

Why You
Should Attend

UNIFY 2026 fosters thought leadership and amplifies key voices across the healthcare industry, uniting stakeholders to address critical challenges and shape the future of healthcare and patient safety.

Hear from Transformational Leaders

Gain insights from some of the most influential voices in healthcare—health system CEOs, clinical executives, innovators, payers, and policy leaders—who are shaping the future of care delivery.

Engage in Strategic Conversations

Go beyond theory and explore the real-world strategies organizations are using to address today’s most pressing challenges—from workforce sustainability to digital transformation.

Learn Across the Continuum

UNIFY convenes leaders from hospitals, health systems, ambulatory care, behavioral health, payers, and technology organizations to share perspectives and solutions.  

Leave with Actionable Insights

Every conversation is designed to deliver practical ideas and proven approaches you can bring back to your organization to strengthen quality, safety, and performance. 

Speaker Feature

Michelle Spurlock, DNP, MBA

System Chief Nursing Officer

Acadia Healthcare

Ena Williams, PhD, MBA, RN, CENP, FAAN

President, Board of Directors, American Organization for Nursing Leadership

Former Senior Vice President & Chief Nurse Executive, Yale New Haven Health

Claire Zangerle, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAONL

Chief Executive Officer, AmericanOrganization for Nursing Leadership 

Chief Nurse Executive, American Hospital Association 

Breakout Preview:

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Children's Health

Empowering the future of pediatric care through ground-breaking research, strategic disaster readiness, and innovation solutions to critical workforce and capacity challenges. 

NAHQ

Discover how healthcare leaders can unite workforce, financial, and operational challenges under a single quality strategy to eliminate systemic risk and drive sustainable outcomes. 

Patient Safety & Event Reporting (SE/SRE) 

Shaping the future of safety culture by transforming compliance data into a powerful engine for organizational learning and harm prevention. 

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Event Details

When

September 30, 2026 – October 1, 2026
8:00 AM-5:00 PM

Where

Grand Hyatt Washington

1000 H Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20001

Planner

Grace Brandon

grace@jamiebelkin.com