Conference Experience

A conference experience designed to help mobile healthcare programs understand the moment, strengthen their work, and prepare for what comes next.

The 2026 Annual Mobile Healthcare Conference is intentionally designed to help attendees move from insight to action.

Across three days, participants will explore the forces reshaping access, rural health, policy, funding, and care delivery — including emerging opportunities such as the Rural Health Transformation Program — while learning practical strategies to strengthen operations, build sustainable models, demonstrate value, and expand impact.

Through keynote conversations, learning tracks, peer case studies, intensive training, networking, and hands-on discussion, attendees will leave with clearer insight, stronger connections, and ideas they can put to work in their own communities.

Hotel

Book by September 4, 2026 to secure the Special Conference Guest Rate Pricing of $229/per night

Kansas City Marriott Downtown
200 West 12th Street
Kansas City, MO 64105
Phone: (816) 421-6800

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The Six Tracks:

Building High-Performing Mobile Healthcare Programs

Community Collaboration, Engagement, Partnership

Partner with communities to expand access and build trust.

Culture, Leadership, People

Lead and support the people who make the work possible.

Program Operations and Service Delivery Models

Operate efficiently to deliver high-quality, adaptable care.

Patient/Client Experience, Customer Service, Quality, Impact

Create exceptional patient experiences and demonstrate measurable impact.

Financial Sustainability

Secure sustainable funding models for long-term success.

Infrastructure, Capital Investments, Technology Solutions

Invest in infrastructure and technology to prepare for the future.

The Conference Experience

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Understand the Moment

Explore how rural health transformation, policy and funding shifts, behavioral health, public health, and changing community needs are reshaping the access landscape — and what mobile healthcare programs should be preparing for now.

Build Stronger Programs

Learn practical strategies to strengthen the people, operations, partnerships, infrastructure, and financial models needed to grow and sustain mobile healthcare programs.

Demonstrate Value and Excellence

Understand how programs can measure outcomes, improve quality, communicate impact, and prepare for emerging standards of excellence across the field.

Move the Field Forward

Connect with peers, partners, sponsors, funders, and national voices working to advance mobile healthcare as a trusted, sustainable, and measurable part of community-based care.

Don’t Leave Early: Monday Night Is Part of the Experience

Celebrate the people, programs, and momentum moving mobile healthcare forward.

Close out the 2026 Annual Mobile Healthcare Conference with a rooftop celebration at Palm Tree KC in Kansas City’s Power & Light District.

On Monday evening, we will gather for a high-energy celebration recognizing award and grant recipients, honoring board leadership, and bringing the mobile healthcare community together for one final night of connection, music, and celebration.

With rooftop energy, a DJ, and the chance to celebrate colleagues from across the country, this is designed to be more than a reception. It is the conference closing moment.

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Awards, Grants & Community Recognition

Awards

Honoring outstanding contributions to mobile healthcare

Grants

Supporting member organizations and field capacity

Board Recognition

Celebrating leadership, service, and transition

Awards & Grants

Celebrate the Field. Honor the Work. Stay for the Moment.

Mobile healthcare is powered by people who show up — in communities, in partnerships, and in moments when access matters most.

On Monday evening, we will close the 2026 Annual Mobile Healthcare Conference with a rooftop celebration at Palm Tree KC, recognizing award and grant recipients, honoring board leadership, and celebrating the people moving the field forward.

This is a chance to step out of the sessions, reconnect with colleagues, celebrate impact, and leave Kansas City with the energy and relationships that make this national community so important.

Plan your travel so you can stay through Monday night.

The Jerry McLarty Connectivity Grant

The Jerry McLarty Connectivity Grant
(This grant is being provided by West Networks)

Connectivity on a mobile clinic can be a challenging process – from maintaining the security of confidential patient information to managing the challenges in rural as well as urban settings.

Proper connectivity allows for increased output, access to EHR, the opportunity for transmitting data, and the option of telemedicine.

Submission Details: Please outline the services that are provided, or that will be, and the demographic served by the mobile program. Explain specifically how the connectivity would be used to expand the effectiveness and reach of the program. Provide details on how this resource would change the program’s level of impact.

Grant recipient will receive:

MBX (4 SIM card) connectivity package (click here for MBX description)
all requisite antennas
on-site set up
follow up support for one (1) year is included

Submissions for this award must be sent electronically in Word format by Tuesday, June 9, 2026

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Mobile Health Clinics Innovation Award

Mobile Health Clinics Innovation Award showcases an individual or organization that has made significant, innovative contributions to their program and the mobile healthcare field.

Submission Details: Submit a description in fewer than 500 words as to why the nominee is deserving of this honor. The nominee should demonstrate dedication to the field of mobile healthcare. Describe the innovation(s) that the person/organization has created or implemented within their program or for the field at large.

Submissions for this award must be sent electronically in Word format by Tuesday, June 9, 2026

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Jim Goodwin Drive Excellence Award

In honor of Jim Goodwin, nominate a driver from your program to receive the Jim Goodwin Driver Excellence Award, which includes complimentary registration and hotel stay (up to three nights) to the 22nd Annual Mobile Clinics Conference (travel costs are not included).

Submission Details: Submit a description in 500 words or fewer on how this nominee goes above and beyond the performance of their duties as a mobile health vehicle driver through safe operation as well as commitment to the mobile program and the community it serves. This individual must have a personal character beyond reproach, with no disqualifying past behavior, as indicated in the award criteria.

Criteria – Nominees must have:

Nominees should represent the values of integrity and commitment.
No safety-related driving suspensions or violations in the past three years.
Mobile Healthcare Association members in good standing (with dues paid in full to date) are invited to submit a nomination (of themselves or another Mobile Healthcare Association member).

Submissions for this award must be sent electronically in Word format by Tuesday, June 9, 2026

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Registration rates increase August 1

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Meeting the Moment