SEPTEMBER 15th – 17th, 2026
Healthcare is changing fast—and the safe patient handling and mobility field must be ready to respond. With reimbursement uncertainty, competing safety priorities, and ongoing workforce shortages, organizations need practical, sustainable strategies now more than ever.
This is the moment to rethink how SPHM is positioned, strengthen its role in patient and staff safety, and
build programs that can succeed in today’s demanding healthcare environment.
Join us for the online summit, “The Future of SPHM: Simplify, Standardize, Sustain” where experts will challenge traditional SPHM approaches and share practical solutions for creating a more streamlined, universal, and sustainable path to program success.
Objectives:
By the end of the summit, you will be able to:
1. Identify why the lack of a national SPHM initiative is no excuse for non-compliance
2. Define five core elements that are essential to implementing a universal approach to SPHM.
3. Revisit the need for the technologies available in your facility and identify ways you can maximize their
use with minimal additional capital investment.
4. Develop an integrated approach to SPHM that supports staff and patient safety initiatives within your
facility.
5. Identify 3 ways you can make an immediate value-added impact to your SPHM program.
Who is This Summit Suitable for?
Whether you work in acute-care, a skilled nursing facility, long term care, home-health care, a satellite facility, a doctor’s office, urgent care, or any other venue where patients are seen, this 3-day summit is designed for you.
If you are a safe patient handling program leader, early-mobility program leader, risk manager, physical therapist, occupational therapist, researcher, unit leader, director of nursing, assistant director of nursing, nurse manager, or vendor you will find the content of this summit crucial to achieving your patient and staff safety goals and keeping safe patient handling and mobility relevant.
Whether you are new to safe patient handling and mobility, a seasoned program leader, or just curious as to how to re-ignite a spark into your program, integrate this patient and staff safety initiative into your overall safety and risk agenda, you will get a lot of ideas from this 3-day summit.
Why Attend This Summit?
With no travel costs to consider, or time away from work, this online summit provides you with the flexibility to be available in your workplace, while learning about strategies from subject matter experts to help you keep your safe patient handling and mobility program viable and sustainable in a climate of ever competing priorities.
You will also have access to the presentations for 3 months afterwards just in case you get called away during your workday.