Action Summit 3: Growing Arizona’s Healthcare Workforce

The Arizona Healthcare Workforce Summit is a pivotal conference dedicated to addressing the state's pressing healthcare workforce challenges. Scheduled for November 3-4, 2025, at Rio Salado Conference Center, the summit brings together healthcare professionals, educators, policymakers, and industry leaders to collaborate on innovative solutions. The summit focuses on building sustainable career pathways, enhancing training programs, and fostering partnerships to meet the growing demand for healthcare services.

Monday, November 3, 2025 | 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, November 4, 2025 | 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Registration | $98.00 (Includes Continental Breakfast, Lunch, and Breaks)

Dialogue about statewide programs and strategies that will strengthen and advance Arizona’s healthcare workforce.

Continue discussion about statewide workforce data to identify needs, make projections, and help set direction.

Further ways to collaborate and maintain connections among funded projects, employers, education programs, and workforce agencies to assist and support each other's efforts.

Participate in Action Strategy sessions on funding and sustainability, workforce engagement and retention, and programs that advance and support healthcare careers.

• Perspectives about building and strengthening the workforce from healthcare system and education leaders
• An understanding about the unique healthcare workforce needs in different parts of Arizona
• An awareness about why students select healthcare as a career and what they experience as a student
• An update on the successes of several statewide healthcare workforce initiatives and funded programs
• An appreciation for integrative healthcare and the role it plays in workforce and health outcomes
• Best practices for healthcare change and collaboration

Leaders, educators, providers, staff, policy-makers, and students from:

• Workforce programs/projects
• Healthcare and public health
• Educational institutions/programs
• Community and home–based organizations
• Behavioral health and long-term care facilities
• Economic development
• Government agencies

Questions? Contact us at [email protected].

Here is a list of hotels within walking distance of the Rio Salado College Conference Center:

Comfort Suites Phoenix Airport: 1625 S. 52nd Street Tempe, AZ 85281, 480.446.9500

Hampton Inn & Suites Tempe / Phoenix Airport:1550 S. 52nd Street Tempe, AZ 85281, 480.410.6400

Wyndham Phoenix Airport / Tempe: 1600 S. 52nd Street Tempe, AZ 85281, 480.967.6600

Hosted by: Arizona Healthcare Workforce Action Network

Host or Publisher Maricopa Community Colleges