RISE Healthy Communities Summit 2026

The RISE Healthy Communities Summit holds March 23-25 in Orlando, Florida. The Summit is built for health plans, providers, public health agencies, CBOs, government, philanthropy, and social-impact leaders who must navigate shrinking public dollars, politicized language, and shifting priorities to sustain impact now.

What you’ll take home

• Funding diversification: new revenue pathways, payment models, and capture tactics
• Operational partnerships: how to stand up community hubs and share resources efficiently
• Lived-experience integration: practical methods, guardrails, and examples to design with communities
• Team resilience: playbooks to reduce burnout, boost retention, and sustain momentum

CHLPI Clinical Instructor Rachel Landauer speaks on Tuesday, March 24, at 11:50 a.m.. Her panel is focused on “SDOH Data and Health Care: Opportunities, Risks and Best Practices.”
The goal of the panel is to:

• Develop or strengthen understanding of current applicable regulatory approaches, including how patient privacy law plays out with respect to social risk information
• Identify and discuss potentially high-risk scenarios involving unsafe or otherwise unwanted uses and disclosures of social risk information
• Review and discuss strategies to minimize harm from both “Big P” policy (i.e., governmental policy) and “small p” policy (i.e., institutional policy) perspectives

Other panelists are; Becca Yanniello, VP Pop Health  at Regal Medical Group MCO, and Greg Gierer, Managing Principal at Hilltop Health Policy Advisors. The panel is moderated by Sujata Bajaj, CTO at Yuvo Health.

CHLPI Clinical Instructor Erika Hanson speaks on Wednesday, March 25, at 9:55 a.m. Her panel is titled “Bridging Innovation and Sustainability: The Medically Tailored Meal Sustainability Blueprint.”
The goal of the panel is to:

• Outline a pathway to sustainable success and quality standardization for Food is Medicine (FIM) interventions by defining the necessary elements for the medically tailored meal intervention to transition from grant, pilot, and waiver funded services to sustainable healthcare funding and coverage pathways
• Understand the legal framework that states and federal agencies use to define quality for all Medicaid covered benefits and identify key aspects of how FIM interventions fit into this framework
• Discover why the FIM framework is central to scaling sustainable access to these lifesaving interventions across the country
• Participate in the guided multistep process for creating the Blueprint and applying pillar recommendations

Hanson will speak on the panel alongside Alissa Wassung, Executive Director at Food is Medicine Coalition.

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